I remember shortly after moving there, asking an employee at Cabella’s if he had any recommendations for a gun safe. “Well, son,” he said to me in complete seriousness, “m’boy moved away to college a few years ago so I reinforced the door frame and just turned the whole guest room into a gun vault. Have ya thought ‘bout doing sumthin like that?” Good God, I thought. And then, when we moved into a new house this year, it had a walk in closet turned into gun vault. Welcome to Texas.Yeah, yeah: fire protection, are the walls reinforced, yadda yadda. Don't mess with Texas, especially they're causing cerebral hemorrhages in East Coast Progressives.
Hat tip: Isegoria, who always finds cool stuff.
About 10 years ago, my parents built a new master gun vault. its an 8x8 rebar reinforced, poured concrete block room with a safe door. Oh, and my mom got a new bathroom to hide the construction. Because F you, that's why.
ReplyDeleteA hardend, secure, alarmed and fire resistant small room cost to build is probably equal or less than a good quality large safe.
ReplyDeleteEspecially if you do the work yourself.
Not unusual... Matter of fact, they're pretty common. I saw three in the 10 houses I looked at (all in Texas)...
ReplyDeleteI've a friend that turned the space under his front porch into a safe. Concrete walls and top with a safe door behind a screen in his basement utility room wall.only cost an extra $1500 when he built the house (plus the door). The concrete box would have been built anyway but now it's full of guns and ammo instead of dirt.
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