I have been contemplating this for quite a while now and I wanted to get everyones opinion. I have the standard fireproof gun safe, no where near top-of-the line and is running out of room. I know that the primary reason for a safe is for fire and burglary protection. I have been thinking of bulding a fake wall in my walk-in-closet, build a box out of plywood, probably 1" and make it 4ft x 4ft x 10in. The only thing I have to figure out is how to make the door seems invisible and a locking mechanism. fireproofing should not be a problem since there are literally hundreds of products available to fireproof wood. I have pretty much made up my mind to do this but I would still like to hear everyones oppinion, maybe there is something I didn't think of.

I have been contemplating this for quite some time. I do have a safe and lockable storage for my ammo. However, I decided on something "indestructible" that can be easily accessed by me/wife in an emergency. Buy a heavy, solid safe. Get it into the closet, lag it and fill it so it's too heavy to move. This way there is no way to get it out or get it opened. The other thing I need to do is get my spare safe and put it in another location in case of fire, confiscation, robbery with a crane or whatever so I don't lose everything.

I have been contemplating this for quite some time. I do have a safe and lockable storage for my ammo. However, I decided on something "indestructible" that can be easily accessed by me/wife in an emergency. Buy a heavy, solid safe. Get it into the closet, lag it and fill it so it's too heavy to move. This way there is no way to get it out or get it opened. The other thing I need to do is get my spare safe and put it in another location in case of fire, confiscation, robbery with a crane or whatever so I don't lose everything.

I have been contemplating this for quite some time. I do have a safe and lockable storage for my ammo. However, I decided on something "indestructible" that can be easily accessed by me/wife in an emergency. Buy a heavy, solid safe. Get it into the closet, lag it and fill it so it's too heavy to move. This way there is no way to get it out or get it opened. The other thing I need to do is get my spare safe and put it in another location in case of fire, confiscation, robbery with a crane or whatever so I don't lose everything.

 

The safe I currently have weighs 500lbs empty and it is bolted down to the floor joists in my closet. The only thing keeping it from falling thru the floor is that it's right over a load bearing wall. Their is nowhere I can put a second or larger safe. My only option for a larger safe and bolting it down to the concrete is my garage. I don't want to put it in the garage for 2 reasons, 1) garage door is easy to break into and it being in the garage, someone can tie a chain to it and pool it out with a truck. 2) there is no alarm in the garagew and plenty of tools, so if i'm not home, a potential theif can have almost limitless time to try and break into it.

 

But if I do the hidden closet right, no thief will ever find it.

I have seen it done with a full length mirror as the door. You just push on the mirror and it pops open. I wish I had a bigger house cause I would have done it already.

_{^{I did something like this several homes ago. The 'door' was a wood panel that friction fit into the opening, with the top seam just under a small shelf to make it non-obvious, and I'd prop up long things like curtain rods, fishing poles, whatever, in the corners to conceal the side seams. I didn't come up with a way to lock the panel in a way that didn't make the panel look like a hidden door, so instead I ran a plastic-covered cable through the trigger guards and locked the guns down from inside the cabinet. It worked fine for seldom-accessed firearms; would be a bit of a pain for the guns you use the most}}

To doubly make sure its secure, you can use churn wire stapled to the studs flush against the wall. This would provide enough deterrent. For criminals.

To doubly make sure its secure, you can use churn wire stapled to the studs flush against the wall. This would provide enough deterrent. For criminals.

 

What is churn wire?

Now this would be fricken sweet!!! The one on the bottom is sick.

 

To doubly make sure its secure, you can use churn wire stapled to the studs flush against the wall. This would provide enough deterrent. For criminals.

What is churn wire?

 

Yeah - curious to know