GUN SAFE?

[willy]

Time to get a safe,,Looking for something to hold around 20 long guns and around 30-40 hand guns..Or could go smaller and cut those numbers in half..
Looking for something around $1500 or less.
What you all got, and which ones would you recommend?..

[PJ Hardtack]

You got a reinforced floor where you intend to install that thing?

[Sagebrush Burns]

I'm thinking you're going to find it difficult to find a quality safe large enough to hold all those guns in your price range.  Maybe if you come across a "pre-owned" one...

[FriscoCounty]

Check out companies like Liberty Safes.  They have a 48 gun safe for $1099. 
http://www.libertysafe.com/safe-usa-safes-ps-44.html?tab=colors

Another option is to get 2 medium sized safes.  One set up for long guns only and the other all shelves for the handguns. 

[Lumpy Grits]

Stay away from electric locks.
Just ask any locksmith....
LG

[willy]

Check out companies like Liberty Safes.  They have a 48 gun safe for $1099. 
http://www.libertysafe.com/safe-usa-safes-ps-44.html?tab=colors

Another option is to get 2 medium sized safes.  One set up for long guns only and the other all shelves for the handguns. 

Two smaller safes?...Now that might be a good idea....Thanks.

[Baltimore Ed]

I bought a 36 wide x 25 deep x 66 in tall Drake Safe (Roxboro, NC) before Y2K and a second when I retired 2 years ago. They will do the interior any way you want, half long guns, half shelves, all shelves, all long guns. If you work hard and live long enough you WILL fill it up so think big.

[Begle1]

Consider a "gun closet"/ armory. Hide it behind a book case or something. Go wild.

Safes suck.

[Coffinmaker]

  Begle

Dunno Begle.  The alternatives to a Safe are a lot more expensive than a simple safe.  Building false walls and hidden rooms can be ludicrously expensive.  Although I do agree, a Safe sux.  I long for that point in time when we could have real nice gun cabinets to display our goodies (Sighs Sadly)

[Griff]

Ditto on the Liberty Safes.... they also private label safes for places like Cabela's, Bass Pro, John Deere, and other resalers... I picked up a trailer load in UT and started delivering them in central CO & finally emptying out in central FL... went to bunch of places, dropping of one or two safes here & there.  I'll also recommend staying away from electronic locks. 

[Major 2]

Stay away from electric locks.
Just ask any locksmith....
LG

WORD ! 

[Abilene]

shikeam1 reported.

To the subject, my first safe was a shorty Liberty (because I had just discovered handguns and in my pre-CAS ignorance had no interest in long guns    )and it has an electronic lock.  So far, so good (knock on steel).  I've accidently gone ten years between changing batteries (a pair of 9v die-hards) with no problems.  Am I recommending electronic?  No, just saying I've been lucky.  For the last number of years that safe is sitting empty at my old house 90 miles away while all my guns are here at my mom's house in a Browning safe that is getting over-crowded at this point.  I've actually got a few cheaper long arms hiding behind doors.  The combo was a little complicated to do right until I got used to it and I'm happy with it.  I bought it used from a friend who was going from 3 medium safes to one giant one.  It cost me $350 to have a safe moving company move it across town, but I still saved money.