Gun Storage, Arms, Defense, and General Babbling

External vs Internal: Battle of the Hinges

Posted by on Feb 20, 2010 in Safe Tips and Articles | 3 comments

This Sunday, when you pick up the paper to look for the latest deals, open up to your local sporting goods store catalog, and browse their gun safe selection. Among the features listed, including steel thickness, gun capacity, and lock types, you'll likely see a bullet point noting the configuration of the hinges used to open the door. Based on my personal observations, one of the two exciting selling points are typically applied:

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Two of My Choice Gun Cabinets

Posted by on Feb 10, 2010 in Gun Cabinets | 1 comment

In several previous posts I’ve...

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Lockers Make a Viable Option for Firearms Storage

Posted by on Feb 5, 2010 in Lockers | 0 comments

If you've been to a health club, high school, or an amusement park in the last 60 years, chances are you've used a locker at one point or another to temporarily stow your belongings. Your high school likely didn't supply students with 2000 lbs Fort Knox safes to store their books - it's just not practical. Being inexpensive, scalable for growth, and offering a fairly substantial level of secure organization, lockers are a much better fit. Of course, the word 'secure' is a relative creature.

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