Horizontal Rifle Safe

dCorbus

Can anyone recommend a bs-compliant rifle safe / cabinet that can be mounted horizontally?

Running tight on space and don't seem to have the headroom to fit an upright rifle cabinet, so any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks.

Needs to be able to store up to 4 scoped rifles.

Alternatively, can the standard rifle safes be installed lying down / horizontally or is this a no-no?

Thanks.

No6

Are you putting it under the bed??, you probably could put a standard safe horizontally but the bolt holes are on the back opposite the door so it could only open upwards if fixed to the floor.

deerhunter1

dCorbus wrote: »

Can anyone recommend a bs-compliant rifle safe / cabinet that can be mounted horizontally?

Running tight on space and don't seem to have the headroom to fit an upright rifle cabinet, so any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks.

Needs to be able to store up to 4 scoped rifles.

Alternatively, can the standard rifle safes be installed lying down / horizontally or is this a no-no?

Thanks.[/quote
I have the standard gun safe bolted lying down for years no problem I think it is better

Tom Donnavan

How hard would it be to be complaient with a home made one? I am stuck for vertical space also and was thinking about getting a sheet of maybe 3mm plate and welding one up with two padlocks and the forrestory gate type covers over the padlocks?
what do you guys think?

For four scoped rifels would you be better with more than one safe??

deerhunter1

Tom Donnavan wrote: »

How hard would it be to be complaient with a home made one? I am stuck for vertical space also and was thinking about getting a sheet of maybe 3mm plate and welding one up with two padlocks and the forrestory gate type covers over the padlocks?
what do you guys think?

For four scoped rifels would you be better with more than one safe??

Ya why not go for it

dCorbus

Thanks to All above.
Got what I needed today - Gonna fit the usual safe horizontally.
Thanks for the advice! - and BTW, no - it's not going under the bed!:D

On another note, I think it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to come up with a home-made BS / IS compliant gun safe - For any article or product to be deemed to comply with the BS standards, it would usually have to be independently-tested and certified as compliant - I very much doubt that a home-made safe / cabinet would be certified as compliant, and the costs involved in getting certification wouldn't make it worth your while.

Another way of looking at it is - If the FO or Super asks for proof of compliance with the BS or IS, you'll have no way of proving this, and all your hard work and ingenuity would have been to no avail.

You could indeed make a very secure cabinet using plate MS etc. with the right equipment, furniture, and fittings - but you still wouldn't have BS / IS compliance certification. And there's the problem!:D

Or maybe I'm wrong?:)

Again, thanks for the advice on the OP.

lucy333springer

Hey dc,
Make sure that if it's high on the wall you'd be needin to bolt it to wall and concrete roof, same if low to the wall, most be bolted to wall and floor.
just a little thought.