Hiding Your Wall Gun Safe

Author: Todd Christiansen| Category: Gun Safe, Wall Safe

A wall gun safe is a good investment for most homeowners.  While they are better than no safe and will thwart most casual thieves or children, these are not high security safes.  A simple crowbar is often enough to open the door or to remove the safe from the wall to be carried away and opened off-site.  To be most effective, you should hide your wall safe to minimize the possibility that a thief will find it.  Here are some quick tips on how and where to hide it.

  • The back of a full closet is probably the most popular location.  Installing the safe in a location that is quick to access will allow the unit to be used for home defense as handgun safe also.  Make sure to have lots of clothes the the closet so it actually takes some work to find the safe.  If possible, paint the safe the same color as the closet walls.
  • Just like the movies, installing the wall safe in a open area and then mounting a picture over it is a very effective way to disguise the safe.  You simply have to cut an opening in the wall to install the wall safe between studs.  Make sure to hang a picture that is easy to remove when necessary.  The safe must also be flush to the wall with  no protruding items to be used in this configuration.  A fingerprint gun safe can not be used in this way as they have a control panel for the locking mechanism that sticks out too far.
  • Install the in wall gun safe in the garage behind a piece of pegboard used to store your tools.  Most thieves will not spend much time in the garage looking for a safe.  This location will throw many of them off.  This may be a location where a biometric safe may work because you could vary the depth of how the pegboard is mounted.
  • If possible, install the wall gun safe inside a lower cabinet such as a bathroom or laundry room.  Most burglars figure there is nothing of value in the laundry room so will not spend much time looking behind the laundry detergent or bleach!  While it may be more difficult to access easily or quickly, it will be just about impossible for a thief to find or access.
  • Here is my guide on installing wall safes between the studs.

Finding an easy hiding place for your wall safe may mean the difference between the burglar find it and missing it.  Do the extra work and protect your safe and the valuables and guns in it.

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