My gun collection is growing to the point that I'm contemplating a gun safe. I live in a third floor apartment and I don't know if I'd be able to attach the safe to the structure. What would you recommend?
Just an Idea...
Get a Job-box from Home depot and screw it to the floor (or wall vertically). A couple of decking screws thru carpet could be removed without damage when you leave.
If you wanted to harden it up a little and make it more fire resistant then you could line the interior with heavy plywood.
Get a Job-box from Home depot and screw it to the floor (or wall vertically). A couple of decking screws thru carpet could be removed without damage when you leave.
If you wanted to harden it up a little and make it more fire resistant then you could line the interior with heavy plywood.
I recommend you find out if you can bolt it down or not. If you can, that's swell. If you can't, your options are limited, as a safe large enough and heavy enough to be secure on it's own is not gonna work on the third floor of an apartment building.
I would be happy to gun-sit for you, if you'll provide sufficient ammo, as in 100 rounds per gun, for me to routinely test, on let's say a weekly basis, in order to ensure that all are still in good working order.
Move....
https://www.snapsafe.com/specialty-safes/under-bed-safe
Various places make modular safes too. Safes that are not secured are pointless though.
Various places make modular safes too. Safes that are not secured are pointless though.
The Irish mobster Whitey Bulger was living in a California apartment when he was finally captured.
He reportedly had holes in the walls (covered by pictures or mirrors) to hide some guns and $800,000 in cash.
He reportedly had holes in the walls (covered by pictures or mirrors) to hide some guns and $800,000 in cash.
Choices always have consequences.
I'd be surprised if you were allowed to secure a safe to the floor. Granted, you'd like to believe that someone hauling out your safe from the third floor might be reported before they got away..
I think I'd try to hide them more than lock them down.
I think I'd try to hide them more than lock them down.
You might bolt a few pieces of 3" or 4" channel iron to the safe (use grade-8 carriage head bolts, with nuts on the inside the safe). Perhaps put them as runners on the bottom.
The goal is to make it a spidery thing that won't fit through doors or windows without removal.
They could eventually grind/drill the bolt heads, but given enough time they can also remove one that's bolted down (just ask @druryj).
Just a thought...
The goal is to make it a spidery thing that won't fit through doors or windows without removal.
They could eventually grind/drill the bolt heads, but given enough time they can also remove one that's bolted down (just ask @druryj).
Just a thought...
They make an under the bed safe that's hidden and fairly secure. The safe it's self if the bed frame. I can't remember the name of the company but I've seen it on the internet. Out of sight and hidden is the best.
Search google for: Bedframe gun safes....
Search google for: Bedframe gun safes....
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