Thread: Hiding Gun Cabinet Keys

Easiest space in an existing house is to make a double wardrobe into a single wardrobe but you'd need to hinge an mdf divider inside and change all the trim so would be fairly obvious

A big shelf on a garage wall that is on recessed hinges with the safe in behind it could work

I know a guy who built another skin on the front of his safe and filled it with gunpowder - run a grinder into that lot and you'd get a surprise

Originally Posted by Tommy

"Mantraps" are illegal

Um, emery boards then! they will be horrified when their nails come out ground down to the bone!

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

I assumed (yes the mother of all fuck ups) that one could not gain access to the lock/batteries/electronics from the outside.....doesn't seem very secure compared to a key.
However even a "E" safe is barely a minute to get into with no key or code but the tools for the job.....end of the day if they know you have what they want they will come tooled up not looking for keys or codes.

and if they are really keen, they will come when you are sleeping and rudely wake you, before politely asking for the safe to be opened.

Originally Posted by Sideshow

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one like this

how about a pistol sized safe at face height with a weak door and a very hard, spring loaded boxing glove (or brick) inside. and a trail cam for showing off at the pub later.

Originally Posted by Cordite

I just have a wee safe with some bolt actions. Seriously, if I had a large / expensive collection it would be worth the fun of rigging a cheap safe out with a few crappy thin wood screws fixing it to e floor, to encourage them to dislodge it. Cram it with a few iron pipes, pieces of wood inside. Weld shut in a way not apparent from the outside to ensure they'll simply not be able to open it but rather must take it with them at the cost of not carrying off something more valuable. MDF on inside of it so they can't use disc cutters without generating a lot of smoke. A few cups or a deep pan tray almost filled to the brim with gentian violet solution on a top shelf, to ensure they'll look like smurfs once they start shifting the thing.

Dont forget the GPS tracker too...

They are on a little shelf above the door in one of the dogs kennels.

Originally Posted by Boaraxa

Spare key put it in a small clickclack & bury it under something in the garden like a rock , main keys get a large book glue the pages together hack out a hollow , I was going to do just that but the only large book I have is a bible but I read that allll the time so never got around to that idea , there go,s another hail merry ...

@Boaraxa,

Yeah, some things you just won't do.

Fair hiding place is down the spine of the good book if it's not a paperback. In oblong paper wrap to give friction so won't fall out.

Or hang it in plain sight on your tool wall, in a padlock securing a chain round a rafter. No one would expect the key is for anything else than that old padlock. Glue it into the lock with some epoxy, or even tin solder it in place. You'll have to heat the lock if you ever need to get the key out, but it's only a spare for overriding the safe combination lock so you'll avoid the hassle by changing the batteries every year.

Originally Posted by Cordite

@Boaraxa,

Yeah, some things you just won't do.

Fair hiding place is down the spine of the good book if it's not a paperback. In oblong paper wrap to give friction so won't fall out.

Or hang it in plain sight on your tool wall, in a padlock securing a chain round a rafter. No one would expect the key is for anything else than that old padlock. Glue it into the lock with some epoxy, or even tin solder it in place. You'll have to heat the lock if you ever need to get the key out, but it's only a spare for overriding the safe combination lock so you'll avoid the hassle by changing the batteries every year.

Brazing the key into the lock will stuff the key up cos of the heat involved. And not to mention that the rod will run into the lock and will have to be un sweated. And the rod would be likely to cause issues with the safe lock.

The glue Is a much better idea as long as you have a solvent that will easily dissolve the glue.

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Originally Posted by Russian 22.

Brazing the key into the lock will stuff the key up cos of the heat involved. And not to mention that the rod will run into the lock and will have to be un sweated. And the rod would be likely to cause issues with the safe lock.

The glue Is a much better idea as long as you have a solvent that will easily dissolve the glue.

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Hi @Russian 22

Yes, heh heh, definite no-no don't braze any key in, tin solder it. Epoxy itself goes quite soft when the real heat is on, but not sure if any solvent will readily dissolve epoxy?

But it's getting complicated. How about just knocking a hole in plaster board and encasing your key in the repair?

Originally Posted by Cordite

Hi @Russian 22

Yes, heh heh, definite no-no don't braze any key in, tin solder it. Epoxy itself goes quite soft when the real heat is on, but not sure if any solvent will readily dissolve epoxy?

But it's getting complicated. How about just knocking a hole in plaster board and encasing your key in the repair?

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That'd be a good idea. Relatively easy to implement and easy to fix

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Originally Posted by Russian 22.

That'd be a good idea. Relatively easy to implement and easy to fix

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There's a more easy way.... If someone is seriously thinking about doing that, pm me and I will tell you.

Put a dummy power point on the wall, and have the key behind.....

Originally Posted by Beaker

Put a dummy power point on the wall, and have the key behind.....

Fuck it, have the key behind a live one

Originally Posted by Tommy

Fuck it, have the key behind a live one

I don't mind doing that

I want a bluetooth controlled ecectric motor scissor-lift pillar that comes uo out of the floor, with a circular gun rack.

Blue and green LED lights from below, and out of the top dry ice 'smoke'. Or just a hybrid of these two:








Any engineer's imagination sparked?