'Big' Gun Safes - Recommendations?

[CDM5]

I bought a new cabinet yesterday, a second 7 gun Buffalo River £255.

I've just had a look on ebay, there's a glass fronted cabinet listed as shotgun cabinet. Doesn't really look that secure, do the police accept them as a secure means of storage?

[Sim G]

Take the 9 gun, remove the foam dividers. Get a $hitload of "gunsocks" from ebay and some labels. Stack them in the cabinet "top to tail". I have 15 stored in one cabinet with loads of room left. The second cabinet, their RD7, is where my current "shooting guns" live. Something gets moved up the chain to "shooting status", then they get their cabinets swapped...

I know a couple of blokes in the club who have gun rooms..... Once the first child leaves home, Daddy's getting plans!!!

[judders]

I suggested a gun room the the missus, but apparently it's unfair to expect one of the children to give up their bedrooms. :roll:

Shame this one isn't cheaper, although I'm sure it's still very good value considering: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SENTRY-GUN-SA ... 19dc786739

[techguy]

I have been looking at the same one this afternoon :)

[Sim G]

Get it Adam! You've got no kids yet, do it before "they" come along and take all the space!!!!

[SevenSixTwo]

What's the spec for a door on a gun room?

1/4" steel plate? XPM on the inside? Reinforced, 'invisible' hinges? Would adjacent drywall be an issue, given you can generally spit through them?

[Sim G]

All of the specs for a gun room are in Annex A of the Firearm Security Handbook 2005. Here;

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... ndbook.pdf

But you just know they will be completely different in the Province!!!

[SevenSixTwo]

You can be sure of that!

Safe-keeping of keys
2.59 ...Care needs to be taken in selecting locations for the storage of keys...

We have to keep ours 'on our person' - at all times, even when we leave the house.

[dromia]

Making a gun room was the best thing I ever did shooting wise. Wasn't that expensive £1800 including alarm, or difficult, and was worth every penny.

As soon as the bairn got herself a place at university I had the engineers and the FLO's in straight away. She was a bit outraged but a brief explanation of mortgages and who paid for it soon sorted that out.

[techguy]

Making a gun room was the best thing I ever did shooting wise. Wasn't that expensive £1800 including alarm, or difficult, and was worth every penny.

As soon as the bairn got herself a place at university I had the engineers and the FLO's in straight away. She was a bit outraged but a brief explanation of mortgages and who paid for it soon sorted that out.

Is just your gun room alarmed, or the whole house (I understand if you don't want to answer on an open forum!) Also, is it of the red alert type?