r/canadaguns • u/Round-Inflation-7112 • 1d ago

Buy recommendations No room for a safe

I know you only need a SLD for a NR gun but… I want to be cautious as I have kids in the home and visitors often come over

I’m thinking of picking up my first gun (mossberg 590R) and I can’t find any space in my house to fit a safe

any ideas? I know under the bed lock boxes exist but my issue would be that i don’t think i can fit a dehumidifier in there

anyone else been in the same boat? and also obviously i do plan to get a few more guns so I want to plan with that in mind

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u/justforlul 1d ago

If under the bed is all you have then make that work. Big desiccant bags and pop some air holes to make sure the case breathes. A good oiling often will be your best friend. Plus it’s a cheap temporary fix until you find a better solution (if needed)

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u/Additional_Fold_1350 1d ago

Or a good hard pelican style gun case that has the breather valve and locks. It'll do double duty as a case for transport if you desire a case while transporting NR. I use a couple for transport as its easier than stacking 4-6 guns in the back seat of my truck to shoot at my buddy's private range in Alberta.

Protects them from rubbing while bouncing down the gravel back roads. My beater pump 12ga just stays behind my seat as I carry it while fishing or working in the foothills logging roads. It gets scratched and scraped but its a cheap Churchill, or my old Mossberg 500 so its a work gun not something in a collection to be kept pristine.

My expensive guns get the fancy cases, and my optics but thats about it for transport. I have two canadian tire cabinates I stuck in my bedroom closet. I pile jeans on top of them and my shirts hung next to them, socks and underwear in a dresser shared with my wife. You can fit a smaller safe/cabinate anywhere if your creative. I even have a 6 gun cabinate in the camper bolted to the floor for when we are traveling western Canada on holidays or hunting trips. Piece of mind when you need to run to town for something and are camping and dont want to load all the guns back into the truck for security. Campers arent hard to break into, neither are cabinates, but the cellular game camera inside the camper will have 6-10 clear photos of thieves sent to my phone the first 30 seconds they come in so they will be easily caught. Espcially since another camera will catch thier plates when comming into our usual bush camps.