Large Lockable Box?

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Hi All,

I am looking for a large metal box (padlocked minimum - metal) that will meet storage requirements.

NOT a gun safe. Ideally, something like a truck box I can lay flat in an unoccupied room that does not indicate there might be firearms and ammo inside (tools) to visitors.

Basically, throw All my ammo in there to make room in the real gun safe....

Cheap is good!

48"x24"x24" would be perfect.
 
OC-3 said:
Hi All,

I am looking for a large metal box (padlocked minimum - metal) that will meet storage requirements.

NOT a gun safe. Ideally, something like a truck box I can lay flat in an unoccupied room that does not indicate there might be firearms and ammo inside (tools) to visitors.

Basically, throw All my ammo in there to make room in the real gun safe....

Cheap is good!

48"x24"x24" would be perfect.
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I use a job site "gang box" that fits the bill. Not sure what qualifies as "cheap", but you can find knock-off Greenlee-type boxes for a couple of hundred bucks. I got mine as a one-off at Costco, but the bigbox hardware stores also sell them.

Google: job site gang box
 
Steamer trunk or blanket box is a good idea. You can make one yourself easily enough and noone is going to be looking for your old blankets.. Not as likely to be rifled through in a break in. Truck boxes often have tools, which are easy to sell, making them attractive targets. Or so i would imagine?

*edit* forgot about the locking part. Maybe a false bottom of sorts so the lock is in the box instead of visible on the outside?
 
Steamer trunk is the first place someone would look. Hidden works best like under stairs or closet. Job box is about all you would find at those dimensions. You could always make one, a sturdy wood box would be harder to get into than some of these cheap stack on ones
 
I also like the job box. But I would wait new storage laws are coming . I hear Blair wants u to use a safe.
 
Any large metal container in your house is going to scream "VALUABLE #### TO STEAL IN HERE!"

You are better off storing a bunch of smaller ammo cans in a closet or under the stairs. A snap-on Cabinet with home-made shelves would fit nicely in a closet and could hold a lot of ammo too. At $100 on sale, they're hard to beat price-wise.

I use a toolbox (24" long give or take) for the ammo I'm not using any time soon, then I've got my shotgun ammo in two shotgun cans that are ready to go whenever (one with target loads/slugs, the other is full of steel shot), and then I have two other cans (ones ~30cal size, the other ~50cal size). The 50cal size is my range box, whatever ammo I'm going to use at the range goes in there, and the 30cal is my hunting box, everything I need to go hunting goes in that one (some 22lr, some centerfire ammo, shotgun ammo if I'm bringing a shotgun, a screwdriver and some bits, patches and oil, you get the idea). This way I have everything ready to roll, and just need to grab the can(s) I need.
 
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In an urban area, check out used office equipment sellers. Lockable file cabinets, stationary cabinets, sometimes even safes. Craigslist for used HD electrical cabinets. Sturdy and hard to open doesn't have to be purpose built for guns.
 
If you own anywhere near enough ammo, then all you need to worry about is a comp claim from the burglar who wrecked his back trying to move it.
 
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If you own anywhere near enough ammo, then all you need to worry about is a comp claim from the burglar who wrecked his back trying to move it.
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lol new story to tell the wife "Sorry hun, I had to buy all this ammo, my box was getting light enough to lift!"
 
Many years ago, I bought a unit of 3 full sized school lockers. They were cheap and can house a surprisingly large number of long guns. The top shelves are good for handguns and other gun paraphernalia. I used good quality padlocks to lock them. It's not a safe but the next best thing. Oh..I also bolted them to the wall from the inside with large lag bolts into the concrete basement wall
 
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