keep firearms loaded or not loaded in safe?

[mob]

hey, right now trying to organize safe due to how many firearms, and its one of those, a question that has been going thru my mind is.... do i leave the guns loaded in the safe with one in the chamber just in case i need to grab it (even though i have the G17 in the house for bump in the night) or what my fear is that if there was a fire and the internal temp of the safe rose and caused the bullets to rupture/powder burn it would cause damage to the other valuables in the safe, which would be mint sets, gold and silver bars, ancient civilization coins, and tons of jewelry and gemstones cut and uncut


also whats a good way to organize the guns in there, should i buy a gunrack for inside the safe?

 

[resistor]

Personally, none of the guns in my safe are ever loaded. The only guns I ever load in the house, aside from snap caps are the bedside guns. Easier to remember and avoid an ND that way.

Organize? I wish I had the room and the inventory to really organize!

 

[KarenL7777]

Interesting topic here that I'd like to see others post on. My husband never left anything loaded in our safe and I continue to follow his practice of not having anything loaded thats in there. The only guns that are loaded in my home are bedside and carry piece.

Did your safe come with padded shelving or is it available for your safe?? If its available for your safe, you may want to consider purchasing several shelves for handguns and see if they have a shelf with cutouts in it for long guns to be stored at the bottom. This is what I have and it makes storage and organizing much easier.

 

[K.O.A.M.]

Only my duty weapons and home defense pistol are loaded. I like to be sure of the amount of loaded firearms in my house. Keeping count of all of them would be way too much work .

 

[jarhead jim]

Hey mob, there aint no good reason to need loaded weapons in a safe, cause by the time you punched in the combination and grabbed the gun the intruder would be gone. I keep jsut enough weapons around the house loaded that getting in the safe for that reason is out of the question.

Gold bars, jewelry, mint sets.........what's the combination to your safe and your work schedule?

HAHA!!Jim

 

[Quarterbore]

I keep a few loaded mags in my safe (I think I have three loaded 30-rd mags for the AR-15 with 25rds/mag and my SHTF pistol is a Glock 17 and I keep three loaded 17-rd mags with that pistol) but the guns themselves are unloaded. Then again, I have guns I can get MUCH QUICKER then opening the safe and those guns are loaded all the time.

 

[terma-nator]

I keep one gun loaded (+1 in chamber) just for those rare occasions.
Like if someone was forcing you to open the safe. It's located high up, so it's not visable when you stick your head inside.

My friends think I'm paranoid, but at least I'm safe!

 

[Nwcid]

I use to keep most of my pistols loaded and chambered. I use to keep most of my rifles loaded but not chambered. Now at my new house I have some of my pistols loaded and and a most of my mag fed rifles have loaded mags in them.

The big reason I no longer keep most of my guns loaded is that I live in town now and have to unload most of them got any where. At my old house my back yard was my range. For me there is no reason not to keep them loaded so I do/did.

As for guns I always treat them as they are loaded, since they usually are, and get checked several times after coming off the rack.







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[mob]

hey JJ, its 123456 (duh, its the factory combination , its easy for me to remember ) , and as for the schedule, youll have to study me to figure it out. but its not me that you have to worry about, its the old lady that staying here thats an ex probation officer, or the friend that has been shooting clay skeet since he was 8. everyone in the house or that visits the house is very gun proficient. remember theres a reason they call FL the Gunshine State

 

[alaman]

No reason to not keep loaded. Empty guns are worthless unless you are gonna throw it or hit somebody with them.

 

[jarhead jim]

The Gunshine state. I like that!

Jim

 

[chili17]

I bet I am half and half. I have some loaded pistols, rifles, shotguns in both my safes. No real reason I just do. I keep my cash, important documents, jewerly and such in a completely different fireproof safe.

 

[coyle311]

I agree with terma-nator, I keep one gun loaded in each safe just in case. I know chances are unlikely that I'll ever be forced to open safes at gunpoint, but what can it hurt, I'm the only one that has the combinations, so if I shoot myself, that's what I get.

 

[carryaglock]

The stuff in the safe is unloaded and so are most mags. I used to keep loaded mags in the weapons but I found I started having spring issues with some of the ones I didn't fire much. I do keep a couple loaded CZ's stashed around here and there and the street sweeper beside the bed is always full. As for organizing, handguns on the inside skin of the door, long guns upright in the racks. I just need a bigger safe, I toyed with the idea of a vaulted gun room when we built this house but dam that can get expensive.

 

[mmilo31]

Empty guns but stacks of loaded mags. I wouldnt want to fire any of my long guns in the house anyway. Just might go into the neighbors house.

 

[dannyk45]

My bedside G19 is loaded and only one loaded in the gun room, everything else unloaded.

 

[Oswald2001]

Bedside is loaded.


Got some SHTF loaded mags in the safe in web gear.


I'm not paranoid...I live in LA.

 

[KarenL7777]

Good thread here and some of you just answered my question as to why my husband kept some loaded mags in our safe.

 

[ptrthgr8]

Nothing in the safe is loaded... I don't see the point. By the time I'd be able to get into the safe, the need for a weapon would likely be over (i.e. Bad Guy gone or I'd be dead). I do, however, keep a loaded Mossberg 590 (9 pellet 00 buck) in the bedroom, a loaded Beretta Cougar (.40 S&W Hydra-Shoks) downstairs, a loaded H&K USP Compact (9mm Hydra-Shoks) in the main family room (it's my carry piece), and I have two 30-round mags loaded for the RRA Entry Tactical so it's at the ready in case a worst-case scenario were to happen.

So, no... nothing in the safe is loaded. Doesn't need to be.

Cheers,

~ Greg ~

 

[Oswald2001]

In my life, I have seen 2 large scale riots in LA.

The LA riots and, as a kid, the Watts riots.

Both times, there was ample time to assess the situation and line up whichever weapons and accessories were appropriate.

The people in Katrina and natural catastrophes also had plenty of time to open the safe.


That's obviously a different situation from a burglary or home invasion robbery where you will not likely have time to open a safe.


I prefer to have something bedside for immediate access and heavier stuff in the safe for SHTF.