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Many thanks! There is a Cabelas less than a mile from me. Go by it all the time but have never stopped in. I haven't seen an Army-Navy store for years. Apparently they are still around? Lots of gun shows around here. Kinda costly entrance fee tho.
Another question: Do theives look for these ammo boxes? Should I put them inside a regular grocery store box mixed in with other storage boxes? Do they take time going through half a garage full of boxes? Thanks so much.
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Bedrock of the Community
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As far as robbers it will depend what theyre looking for and who it is. Obviously the biggest problem is them in the house in the first place, I wouldnt leave them in plain sight but I wouldnt go so far to bury them in the back yard or anything. If you just keep them out of sight you should be good, put some stuff around them so theyd have to look for it. If theyre in your house unless you have the worlds greatest safe theyll get what they want regardless. Most random break ins will be looking more for electronics and jewelry though things they can easily flip without drawing attention to themselves
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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BB21 hit it on the head. Ammo boxes are great for inexpensive, damage-resisting and comparatively air-tight, waterproof and moisture-resistant storage
and I've been using them for decades. They're great for taking a costly camera on a wilderness canoe trip, etc. However, in a home setting they do visually
stand out like a sore thumb and scream "STEAL ME!" real loud. Because of this, they do need to be kept out of sight or in a home workshop or garage
where they'd hopefully blend in.
All that having been said, I still think the closest thing to the proverbial "sure thing" is a bank safety deposit box -- though there are horror stories (mostly
CA tales) about those being taken over by the govt because the boxholder didn't visit the box frequently enough. I guess there is no totally "sure thing."
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 United States
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Wait. You have to visit your safety deposit box so often?
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Bedrock of the Community
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Theres weird rules about them, I believe sometimes they can get confiscated if you die as well
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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@YoungN---The requirements (in the US) vary from state to state. Talk to the people in your local bank to find out what your situation is.
California enacted a draconian PITA new safety deposit box law a while ago that enables the state of CA to close down a sdb and confiscate
the contents if the box has been unvisited in one year or some such thing. There was/is massive bad blood about the state of CA "grab the
goods and run" nastiness that was well-publicized on the 'net and was the subject of some CCF chatter a while ago. If you're in CA, be very
careful about sdb use but wherever you are, always talk to your local bank people to find out what the drill is.
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I sure will talk to our bank, but I thought as long as you made the yearly payment on your box, that was it. I sure don't understand this "visitation" rule. Why would anyone care if you ever went into your box as long as you kept the payment current?
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Bedrock of the Community
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Why would anyone care if you ever went into your box as long as you kept the payment current? The bank couldnt care less, its the government trying to find more way to get more money especially in states like California that couldnt balance a budget if their life depended on it |
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Pillar of the Community
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"...I know which ones I can trust. I "screen" my friends... The ones I have now wouldn't try that stuff."
I have to disagree. Often it is the people closest to you that end up committing such crimes including family members and friends that you trust most. There is little that a person desperate for fast cash to fuel a drug habit for example would not steal. As a YN you are entering a period of your life where you will likely see friends give into the temptation of drugs and alchol and during their impaired state of mind it is possible that they will become entirely different people and have moments of weakness where they do things that they will later regret. I had a cousin that robbed both his parents and grandparents houses in order to feed a meth habit, taking anything of value that could be traded for more drugs. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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just an idea a pirate chest should be filled with world coins and keep your more valuable coins/PMs in a more secure spot.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have to disagree. Often it is the people closest to you that end up committing such crimes including family members and friends that you trust most. I agree Joe, I have the same cousin type story in my life, just a different drug. |
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United States
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I know the power of drugs because most of my distant family, almost everyone outside my immediate family, does drugs. They are thieves, liars, crooks, etc. Also, my friends that do drugs won't be the ones that I would invite over to my house. I am subconsciously paranoid, but I know how to control it.
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United States
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I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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many many good points made in this thread. so true that the closest are the ones that do and end up turning.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The only drug my relatives use is alcohol, but they are a merry bunch...it's the sober ones I've got to watch out for lol
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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