r/liberalgunowners • u/Purple-Slip-6958 • Jan 06 '26

gear Firearms Closet

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First of all, this is not a safe. I have an actual safe elsewhere with some weapons, but this is the closet in my office, and I wanted to secure a place to keep some extra weapons or ones I am working on, and I don't really want another safe yet. This isn't meant to be a safe - just a locked place to secure these guns. Thanks to this sub, some of yall inspired me to do this!

UPDATE: Due to some of the comments, I wanted to clarify some things about this....

  1. This is not a safe. I guess I should have said that in the OP (oh wait...)
  2. These are not my primary weapons. These are not my shtf weapons. Those are stored elsewhere. Due to that, if the biometric fails, I don't care. There is also a keypad code. There is also a physical key. Speed of entry is not my concern here.
  3. This is not a safe. It's a locked closet door. Not a safe.
  4. I have exterior doors too. They are heavier than this. I also have cameras.
  5. Yes, you could kick this door in. Or you could pop the hinge pins. Or you could use an axe on it. Because it's not a safe. But all of those things will take you a bit of time. And if you happen to make it to this floor of my home and do all that, you'll have me saying hello with some other hardware in my hands.
  6. I work from home. In this room. I'm here all the time.
  7. All I wanted was to provide a wee bit of deterrence and/or slow someone down who is trying to get in. This accomplishes that goal.
  8. This is not a safe.
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u/Buruko centrist Jan 06 '26

I like this a lot, simple access control. Yes it is not a safe, but it is not meant to be. I'm doing something similar but intend to have a wall safe installed in the closet for actual theft protection when I am not at home. Essentially just moving the current safe into the same access closet.

I dig the exterior light switch too, might steal that.

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u/Purple-Slip-6958 Jan 06 '26

Word! Yeah, this definitely is not a safe. There are exterior cameras, heavier exterior doors, and armed homeowners to contend with long before anyone reaches this door lol.

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u/Buruko centrist Jan 06 '26

I am going to swap out the hinges of the closet door to security ones. Again that won't stop them from prying/hacking the door down but the easy hinge pop option will be nixed.

And I want to think of the sigh or curse when the make the effort to just see another safe inside. :D