How do you store your airguns?

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Hey all,

Looking for ideas about how to securely store airguns. I have friends coming to visit with young children next weekend, and my current method of storage for my airguns is closet corners, or on top of my bedroom dresser, or sometimes the kitchen table. In general, having my airguns locked up when they are not on duty, seems like a good idea. My experience with safes/cabinet made for firearms is that airguns don't fit them well, due to how high the guns tend to be from scope to bottom of stock/grip, and the bullpup/carbines can be too short for the safe/cabinet as well.

I was thinking a deep garage cabinet, that I can make my own standoffs, hanging hooks, etc for, might be a good option. A taller one would have space up top for shelves for all the airgun gear. Getting it all organized and in one place would be nice, and then I can slap a padlock on when I want to secure them.

How do you all store your airguns?

Thanks
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If it’s many guns and if you have space to do this, maybe you could move other stuff out of one closet, store the guns in there, and install a lock on the closet’s door. Or on the room the closet is in. Kids aren’t given full run of every room, are they? Even just keeping the guns in your locked bedroom should suffice.
 
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at todays wood prices it might be less $$$ to buy a safe ?
 
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I store mine in safes and the kitchen counter. 😂

Like mentioned above, airguns don’t fit well in safes. On mine I remove the factory shelving and make my own so I can have the rifles in a line. I can’t get anywhere near the same number but they are easy to get in and out.

The shelves are just epoxied together and wiped with oil.

Excuse the junk pictures.

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Look at getting a Job Box. You can make an interior to fit the guns, and best thing is it doesn't look like a gun cabinet.

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Training.

I dont lock them up, I train kids to know the use, operation, permission etc. I make sure they never become an attractive nuisance and become just a tool in the shop.

First up is to let them hold them I have rubber mats on the floor so if there is a drop, I just readjust the gun to shoot. I never get short or angry with those that want to shoot them, if I can get them loaded and we can shoot safely, I get everybody that wants to shoot out and get some pellets down range.

I have yet to have anybody even look sideways after they shoot them except those that offer to buy one from me. I have moved 2 guns on to new homes that way.

I'm just not going to bow down to the way this world operates with fear and coddling, I'd rather serve time than bow down.
 
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I have a friend that has an old refrigerator made into a gun cabinet . He has it on a dolly so it rolls out from the wall , the frige has the electric plug in plain sight taped to the side , the door faces into the wall .
P.S. forgot to say he cut out the middle of the section that separates the frige from the freezer for long guns ,
 
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Firewalker said:
Training.

I dont lock them up, I train kids to know the use, operation, permission etc. I make sure they never become an attractive nuisance and become just a tool in the shop.

First up is to let them hold them I have rubber mats on the floor so if there is a drop, I just readjust the gun to shoot. I never get short or angry with those that want to shoot them, if I can get them loaded and we can shoot safely, I get everybody that wants to shoot out and get some pellets down range.

I have yet to have anybody even look sideways after they shoot them except those that offer to buy one from me. I have moved 2 guns on to new homes that way.

I'm just not going to bow down to the way this world operates with fear and coddling, I'd rather serve time than bow down.
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