Northern Virginia Roll Call

I'm looking at gun safes and I'm always open to recommendations. List of features I'm looking for.

• <$1,000
• Fire-rated
• Mechanical lock
• Enough room to hold long guns and pistols as well as valuable documents. I currently only have 4 pistols but I want room to expand. I expect to add a few long guns at some point, probably another pistol or two.

 

Tractor Supply or (yes) Harbor Freight has the cheapest options I've found.

 

I was looking at bass pro too since there's one local. I was just curious if anyone had some first hand experience with one they loved. I'll check out HF and TSC as well, thanks.

 

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/winchester-gun-safe-12-gun-ts12-30 is the first one I purchased. It's a decent starter safe.

Harbor Freight only has two viable options. I thought they had a couple more. One won't fit long guns, but the other will. So.....

 

Sorry. I didn't see it at first, but this is the one I ended up with: https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/winchester-gun-safe-26-gun-ts26-45

 

I went with Steelwater, just under $900 for a 20 gun safe and damned good customer service! https://steelwatergunsafes.com/

Edit: Not to mention free shipping, liftgate service, and dehumidifier with purchase.

 

Update: I spoke with Joe this morning; they recently changed up the hardware and haven't had a chance to update the instructions. Bottom line is the hardware I have is correct and I'm good to go, but wanted to update this for anyone who has or will be purchasing a set of sliders that comes across the same situation I did.

 

You have more pistols than I do wtf lol

 

I won a bed rack at ATR the other weekend and just traded it for a new carry pistol lol a G43x

 

Four pistols and a stack of twenties! So baller!!

 

Nice man. I kinda just stick with glocks. My main is a glock 45



I'm partial to rifles tho

 

I have them strategically placed throughout the house at the moment. My next one will become a shower gun.

(kidding)

 

I read somewhere someone did that and it legit saved his life lol

 

That's insane lol afterwards he gets to say "I told you so! Who's the paranoid one now?!" to his friends who used to make fun of him.

 

So it's time for another Dave is a moron story. I bought one of those vent register looking hidey holes for a pistol. Easy install, and it's kind of slick. Or so I thought until my wife pointed out that all of our vents are in the floor.

 

His friends didnt make fun of him.

His significant other, quite possibly. My wife called me ridiculous when I asked about her opinion of bathroom ARs.

One of my friends once told me he is more worried about people stealing his mags than his guns, because mags have no serial numbers and can be sold pretty easily

 

I bought a hidden tissue box to hide a handgun, my wife then pointed out that we dont buy tissues often because we dont get sick often, much less keep tissues out and about.

 

I love my 43X!

 

When they come out with an mos model I may pick one up

 

I’d been

hearing about the Shields but never spoke to anybody that had one until Randy told me about them Friday morning. So.... picked up a Shield EZ 9 Friday great little pistol