Things that go bang Room

ManglerYJ said:
Personally, I'd keep the door the way it is, but put a slide bolt lock on the back side. Use a magnet or a pull rope on the outside to slide the barrel open from the inside.
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mommucked said:
...disguise the door, like a bookshelf/cabinets that opens to the goodies room w a hidden locking mechanism.
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DLOR said:
Hang a closet rod with a shit ton of old jackets across it. Then just push aside to enter. It will be be totally camouflaged and look like everybody else’s hall closet
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That's some Al Capone-prohibition shit right there.
 
As said, I would really conceal it. Or build a complete enclosed vault inside the closet. Something that was fire proof, and would survive a fall to the lower floor during a fire. It would be too heavy for the floor most likely, though.

I might also consider making it into a panic room, and use the attic access for hidden passage ways out of the house.
 
Thanks for the thoughts guys. I like the concealment idea, and I’ll steer away from the fire proofing...might still hand some sheet metal though just as extra precaution though.
 
CasterTroy said:
Don't do it!!! Last boat trip to that "island shooting range" Paul took me too ended up with all my guns going to the bottom of the mariana trench when his boat capsized
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You know me very well young Skywalker.
No compromise, no surrender.
Hah! Ya'll figure it out. 3%
 
tknopp said:
For the time and money you are going to put into this gun room, why not buy a quality safe and bolt it down to the garage floor and be done?
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For the quantity I’d need, I figured it would be about break even...cheap 90 minute/30 gun is what $750, on up to $3-4K...for just one. And I thought it would be cool to utilize the space.
 
The last few years in Boone, a buddy of mine and I rented a place that had a similar closet situation. It was this awkward corner of the house but the closet extended over the stairs going down to the garage so it was an awkward shape. Previous tenant stored guns in it so he added a deadbolt to a hollow core door. I was working at lowes at the time and scooped up a "blemished" steel door that just happened to be the right size and painted it to match the rest of the doors in the house. Keyed knob, keyed deadbolt. We built out and felted some barrel cradles, put a piece of 2x at the base to keep the rifles in place and rolled out. Crude but for the maybe $100 invested in it all, it was great. At the time nothing in our collections was worth a ton so it served its purpose of keeping curious people out during parties and provided a secure spot to keep it all.
 
^^^That was my original plan. Heavier door with a dead bolt. Hang some sheet metal from the floor half way up the wall with some fire blankets maybe. But after the comments and thinking through it, if a fire gets to that part of the house and in to that room, I’m not going to be able to put it out with a fire extinguisher anyway. Looks like I can get a steel door that mimics the the rest of the house and reinforce the door frame for $500-1000 from Lowe’s/Home Depot. I’m sure google/ding and dent aisle can come up with it cheaper.
 
1-tonmudder said:
Gonna call it "the boom boom room"??
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I'm just here to learn more about Ray's Boom Boom Room. I heard The Cotton Club is alright, but it ain't got nothin on Ray's Boom Boom Room!
 
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