would your police department and/or insurance company people
help?
Barbara Hass, retired librarian
In a message dated 9/28/2009 1:05:18 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
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Julie,
If you have a local firearms dealer, or even a sporting
goods store, they should high capacity gun safes that you could look at and
price out. We use a safe that is fireproof (to a certain temperature) to hold
our guns that will fit; at least two or three are much too long, one nearing
about 8'.
From a firearms owner's standpoint, look at the ones that
have a keypad or tumble style lock. In my opinion they are more secure and
tend to be heavy enough where someone can't tamper with them. You may be able
to find a safe that can hold all of the longarms with enough room for a few
pieces of jewelry, but if you have a large number of pistols, you may need to
have someone customize interior shelving in another safe altogether.
Feel to free to email if you have any questions.
John
John Hart, Jr.
Assistant Curator of Collections
The Farmers'
Museum
New York State Historical Association/Fenimore Art Museum
PO Box
800
Cooperstown, NY 13326
P: (607) 547-1447
F: (607)
547-1406
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Gun
Storage
Hi Everyone,
I'd like to get some suggestions regarding
gun storage. Right now my museum has what I would call a metal utility
cabinet that houses the rifles/shotguns in our gun collection that is secured
with a padlock that has been added on. This cabinet holds about 40 guns,
with the remainder of our handguns (not sure of how many at this point) in a
locked storage room. I do not feel that these provide adequate
storage/security as the cabinet is located in a hallway, that is supposed to
be limited to staff only, but this isn't always the case. I'd like to
get a more secured storage facility for these artifacts that would be fire
proof and would also be able to store some of our valuable jewelry, coins,
etc. I've been looking at gun safes online, but wondered if anybody has
a vendor they've worked with, suggestions for types of safes,
etc.
Thanks,
Julie
Julie Blood
Collections and
Exhibits Manager
San Joaquin County Historical Society & Museum
P.
O. Box 30, Lodi, CA 95241-0030
Lodi: (209) 331-2055
Stockton: (209)
953-3460
Fax: (209)
331-2057
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