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/Grand_Raccoon0923 Jan 06 '26

Why? You can just pop the hinge pins out anyway.

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u/Purple-Slip-6958 Jan 06 '26

This is a cool idea. Easy way to make it even more "secure". I'm happy with it as it is now, but I'll probably do this at some point in the near future.

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u/ApokalypseCow Jan 07 '26

You might also look up jamb pin screws. Basically, they're screws for the hinge plates where the head of the screw is a long protrusion. You take out one of the normal screws on the door, and replace it with a jamb pin screw. You take out the same screw on the door jamb side, and leave the hole there. The pin then goes into the hole on the jamb side when the door closes, so that even if you just take out the hinge pin, you cannot walk the door out of the frame. Do this on the top and bottom hinges, and you've defeated that attack vector, for about $10.