Originally Posted by
OLIAR15
I have several safes. Still dreaming of a proper man cave / storage room
As someone who has dreamed of and planned a proper "safe room" for a little more than two decades, let me tell you that if you aren't building it as part of a new structure you are probably better off without it. Reinforcing walls, ceilings and or floors is about like building a new house, trying to hang a vault door on an interior wall door jam is pretty temporary. I've seen about a dozen people do it with different levels of limited success.
The most successful built concrete block structures reinforced by rebar and poured concrete in basements, but they also built humidity / mold traps from hell. Not the place to put your priceless "anything" collection.
So while movies tell us this is what we want, the secret room of secrets, in the practical world having safes dispersed throughout your home is far more practical for many reasons. I have a finished, and dry (low humidity) basement and I can't even do the cool "wall bank of safes" because I need to get at electrical outlets and it's nice to have furniture so I'm not sitting on the floor when I watch tv.
I have some lightweight gun cabinets upstairs for stuff like hunting / plinking firearms and my WWII / C&R type stuff. For anyone who doesn't know me, these are the only guns I actually own. I also have a RSC type safe in the bedroom closet for home home defense guns.
But how I would love to have them on display, floor to ceiling like Reed Knight. I can remember back in the 70s when several of my dads friends had impressive collections on display like that in their living room. I can remember one back bedroom with a wall of Lugers, 1911s, Nambus and such, hundreds of them. Another wall with racked WWI / WWII rifles, perhaps 50-60 in standing racks with exceptional examples on the wall above. It would be nice if we still lived in a world where it was safe to do such a thing.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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