multiple gun safes vs mega safe?

[BurkeM]

Ammo in a safe is not wise.

Think pressure cooker in a fire.

No. Ammo will simply burn and 'poof' one round at a time. Like popcorn.

I don't know of any safe that would hold thousands of pounds of pressure, before failing explosively.

 

[BurkeM]

Most safes should be bolted directly to the wall or floor, preventing movement buy unauthorized persons.

Easy to remove, if you need to move.

 

[davsco]

Multiple - One US Milsurp, One foreign Milsurp, One US antiques and modern guns.
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color me jealous, very nice!

 

[Slackdaddy]

The more the better,, spread them out, keep them as hidden from causal view as possible,, build a few into walls, etc.

 

[Mike OTDP]

I've got two big ones...and need a third. Probably best to have a dedicated rifle safe, and a dedicated pistol safe. YMMV, depending on the composition of your collection.

 

[lazarus]

No. Ammo will simply burn and 'poof' one round at a time. Like popcorn.

I don't know of any safe that would hold thousands of pounds of pressure, before failing explosively.

Powder in containers would be a bad idea in a safe though. Most decent safes are designed for seals to close up under high heat. Will it contain thousands of pounds of pressure before the seals failed? Nope. But it very well might hold the pressure sufficiently long enough and high enough to restrain the combustion event sufficiently to allow the powder to combust faster and reached a detonation event, or at least a conflagration sufficient to cause rapid disassembly of the entire safe.

A pressure cooker can't hold thousands of pounds of pressure either, but they can hold enough pressure long enough to allow things like BP and many other very low explosives or propellants to reach detonation.

 

[BurkeM]

Powder in containers would be a bad idea in a safe though.

Agreed, depending on the container. Plastic will melt quickly and eliminate any pressure. Metal cans - seams will probably fail before any detonation.

Follow manufacturers guidance for storage.

 

[ChannelCat]

Multiple safes are good to accommodate a collection as it grows and possibly recedes. Smaller safes can be sold off as well as parts of a collection.

 

[outrider58]

A defunct non latching refrigerator makes a good powder storage vessel.

 

[trickg]

Lots of great comments in this thread.

I think a lot of guys here are going with the "multiple" angle because of the fact that they had to buy another one to rectify the issue of having outgrown the first. That's where I currently am.

My stop-gap solution was to buy a somewhat inexpensive gun locker that I put in my basement, and that contains some things of lesser value that I don't use as often and were taking up space in the main safe, but at some point I'm going to have to get something a bit more robust, as well as portable - something like Zanotti Armor or SnapSafe. I don't have a basement walk-out, so getting a larger safe into my basement will require something that can be assembled in place.

Anyway, I like the idea of having multiple safes, provided there's some kind of organizational structure for what goes where.

 

[crolfe1984]

Where is the option for a walk-in gun vault? That's the way to go for a large and expanding collection.

 

[todbiker]

Multiple if your budget allows. Downside to a big safe, particularly if you like to shoot a variety, is having to pull a bunch of rifles out of the safe to get to the one you want that day. You're less inclined to shoot the ones in the back.

 

[steves2]

I live on the second floor of an apartment building. One big safe isn't in my future.

 

[VRC Racing]

I just keep adding safes... One for NFA, One for AR rifles, One for long guns, one for pistols and other goodies
-Russ

 

[redsandman6]

i went with multiple safes over one for two reasons. first was getting safes into my basement was tight and one big one would not make it down he stairwell. the other was pricing. with black friday deals it was pretty much the same price to get two safes and it was more capacity. the only downside i could see would be having to buy two different humidifiers but even that is a stretch. either way you go just make sure you get as much capacity as you can afford because you will fill them up. i thought with 2 safes i would have plenty of room but i was wrong. i need another one.

 

[Art3]

In addition to the previously mentioned perks, unless you are buying them all at once, multiples essentially let you pay in installments.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Get 1 for guns. Another for ammo. Like the others have said, plan to outgrow.

What about one for the dead bodies?

 

[rseymorejr]

You need a third choice for the poll: Multiple Mega Safes

 

[E.Shell]

What about one for the dead bodies?

You're thinking of the boat safe.

 

[outrider58]

You're thinking of the boat safe dump site.