Ammo in safe

[stilly]

Who has room for ammo? I have 2 large and 1 med safe and have a hard time just getting firearms and most mags into them and be able to close the door.

hehehe, people that are buying guns for the first time now. There is basically about NO pistols you can get that are cool anymore since they all dropped off the list...

Rifles got thinned out because of that BS prop 63 that passed.

Who the hell wants to show off a safe of wheel guns and bolties?

(yeah, I know what I just said, but it is obnoxious and I am sticking to it...)

[SonofWWIIDI]

There's a good amount of weight on those bottom ammo boxes. Y'all think it's fine?

That's just the door...right?

[SonofWWIIDI]

hehehe, people that are buying guns for the first time now. There is basically about NO pistols you can get that are cool anymore since they all dropped off the list...

Rifles got thinned out because of that BS prop 63 that passed.

Who the hell wants to show off a safe of wheel guns and bolties?

(yeah, I know what I just said, but it is obnoxious and I am sticking to it...)

So you're saying that I should have been planning ahead and bought the really good stuff years ago....I've been doing it wrong

[JackEllis]

Who the hell wants to show off a safe of wheel guns and bolties?

(yeah, I know what I just said, but it is obnoxious and I am sticking to it...)

Ain't nuthin wrong with bolt guns

[SixPointEight]

Ain't nuthin wrong with bolt guns

In fact, recently i prefer them!

[Win231]

I'm not stupid enough to think my safe will become a bomb. But when powder and primers auto-ignite you have the potential of introducing fire and shrapnel into your safe which at the very least contains the guns you're trying to protect, and at worst, also contains documents, pictures, jewelry or electronic devices you're trying to protect.

Is you safe going to become a bomb? Eff no. Are you going to have shrapnel, gasses, smoke and potential for fire inside your safe? Yes. Any fire wouldn't last long, the gasses and lack of oxygen will starve it, but it's still a real risk.

I wouldn't store primers or powder in a safe that may burn & destroy important documents. I store those items in a room that has a lock on the door to keep kids out.

[robert101]

Yea, here in CA I care more about my guns than the ammo. It is hard or impossible to replace some of my guns now. I always bolt the safe to the concrete slab, I mean, why wouldn't you bolt it down. My ammo is stored separately. Now I do wish I had more guns for the safe.

[bigbossman]

It depends on how well the shelves are supported. I use some old kitchen cabinets in my garage to store ammo, and one day the weight collapsed the shelf support tabs. They weren't made to support all that weight, and I had to install some reinforcement to keep it from happening again.

[JagerDog]

I'm not stupid enough to think my safe will become a bomb. But when powder and primers auto-ignite you have the potential of introducing fire and shrapnel into your safe which at the very least contains the guns you're trying to protect, and at worst, also contains documents, pictures, jewelry or electronic devices you're trying to protect.

Is you safe going to become a bomb? Eff no. Are you going to have shrapnel, gasses, smoke and potential for fire inside your safe? Yes. Any fire wouldn't last long, the gasses and lack of oxygen will starve it, but it's still a real risk.

FWIW, smokeless powder makes it's own oxygen.

[uhlan1]

If you can fit your ammo into a safe you're doing it wrong.