subject: Keeping Guns In The Home? Some Safety Measures You Ought To Be Familiar With [print this page] You are a firearm hobbyist if you keep a few guns for collection purposes. But even if you're not a collector, you may have a few weapons around the home for different purposes, like hunting or self defense. A drawer can be a handy place to keep a gun, but it's hardly the safest. You don't want anybody to come across your gun and get interested about it, particularly not teens or young children. You also don't want any thieves from effectively disarming you by looking at the obvious places where everyone else would keep a gun. What you need is a safe place to keep your firearm.
An Armaments Room
If you have the room to spare, you can build a small work shop where you can clean your weapons on your free time when everybody else is asleep or away from home. The entire room should be fortified with safety characteristics, and your antique show guns mounted high up the wall so no child or pet could get to it. You can build several cabinets for different types of weapons, with each cabinet fitted with padlocks. The length of the walls, you can have your very own library of your book collection and armaments paraphernalia.
One main reason why you ought to have a room dedicated solely for your firearm hobby is safety. Nobody should be around you while you're cleaning or clearing your guns. You must make certain that everyone gives you a wide berth when you're checking a handgun to make sure that it is not loaded. You should also ensure you are wearing defensive gear like goggles.It is not recommended to pick up a firearm if you have been consuming coffee or alcohol. it's also not safe to clean a firearm when you're tired.
A Rifle or a Revolver Holder
If you don't have much room, you can settle for a small pistol box under the bed. But for your safety, you should always keep your pistol case someplace else to be less obvious about the fact that you're keeping a firearm. If a robber should get in your house, you do not want him grabbing your pistol casing without problems just because you stowed it away somewhere too obvious (like under the couch).
Trendy Storage space for Your Weapons
As far as trendy storage space is concerned, you have a few alternatives. You can go for cabinets that match the furnishings of your home. You can even have one custom made by your interior decorator so that the gun cabinet fits right in and no one would deduce that a few guns are kept inside your fashionable cabinets.
What you need to avoid, however, are the cabinets that only look fine but do not do anything in terms of security. Glass cases may be excellent to look at and give an elegant display of your firearm antiques. But, should any person want to steal your weapons, they only need to break the glass to get them. Go for cabinets made of dense wood like cedar. You may even put in a couple of additional drawers for your other hunting items and ammo.
The ones in fashion now are convertible storage containers that can be used to make an exhibition of your collection and to store your paraphernalia. If you are not keen on conventional cabinets, you can go for modern ones, wall mounted and space-saving.
