Sorry to say this but even covering the glass, its still wood... the best you can do with that is place it in a hidden spot in your house not obvious to anyone and do not tell anyone where it is. good luck

 

Sell it & buy a safe. That's presuming of course you want to keep your firearms safe. If your utmost criteria is to display them and not keep them, insure them heavily and leave them in the display case.

You cannot make a display case secure unless it is made of heavy metal, secured to the floor & wall and utilizes heavy, Museum quality bullet proof glass.

 

You may have to look at some way of securing the firearms inside the cabinet.
Your only other option is a safe.

 

My dad came up with a solution to the glass door years ago. He's a little on the paranoid side about thieves anyway but it works. He uses a large vinyl coated chain run through the trigger guard fastened through the back to a wall stud. It's not pretty and not fast but it works.

 

This makes the most sense in this situation. A display cabinet isn't going to be made secure even if the glass was bullet proof. The wooden frame is then the weak link and is easily broken as well with a common tire tool. A thick cable or chain locking the guns would at least require the thief to have a bolt cutter handy. Of course that could be on their return trip, you're really setting yourself up for loss in this situation. Now if you can make the room containing the display case very secure that might mitigate the issue somewhat. Either way it's going to cost some good money to better protect your assets.

 

I remember when I was growing up everyone had a gun cabinet, sorry to say times have changed. Save your money and buy a safe, the rubber covered cable sounds like a good idea. Might stop them the first time but when they come back and they will be back they'll be ready.

 

When I was a kid in the '40's and '50's I used to stand in front of my uncle's gun cabinet and admire his Winchester model 52 target rifles and other beautiful rifles and shotguns.

I figured sooner or later I would have a beautiful cabinet full of guns too.

Sadly thievery has become one of the most popular pass-times in this country and a gun cabinet is an open invitation to be robbed.

I guess you could have a gun safe and a gun cabinet and put your guns on display when a buddy comes over and then pop them back in the safe when you have to leave.

 

The problem with these approaches is that you will also need to lock up your tools that may be used to break the chain, cable or stud it is connected to.

In the end you need to buy a good safe. I spent a lot of time researching safes, let me know if you have questions...

 

Do ya'll know how houses are built? Do you know how long it would take to pull a stud out of a wall using a tall cabinet as as the lever? About 20 seconds I'm guessing.

That's like telling someone that doesn't want their house broken into to get a deadbolt. About 3 hard kicks can get through that unless there is heavy and unusual framing to support it.

I'm just guessing, but darned few of us have steel framed houses.

 

I'd probably fasten the cabinet to the wall also, I do that anyway as a matter of habit being in earthquake country. I don't think anyone is suggesting these solutions are on par with a proper safe, just trying to sort out possible improvements.

 

Earthquake country... Ucky. One thing we don't have to worry about in SE Texas! We just have Hurricanes and Tornadoes.

I was out visiting my elderly Mom in the Fresno area one year. She's been out there about 20 or 25 years I guess. I was sitting on the couch and notice a cabinet door moving... then it felt like someone walked up to the couch and grabbed it and started shoving it side to side.

I yelled out, "Hey Mom I think we're having an Earthquake!"

I looked over and she was in the kitchen, cutting something up and says... "We are? Oh don't worry, it's little... happens all the time.". She didn't even realize it was happening. Glad it was just a little one.

 

Fresno doesn't get huge ones, neither does around here thankfully, but we rock and roll a little from the big ones along the coast. I bolt my safe to the concrete not only for theft but also don't want it to 'walk' when the ground wiggles. Doubt those bolts would hold up to a big tornado though, that's something I hope to never see up close and personal, though we did have a few small ones touch down about a mile from here a few years ago but they just blew over some cheesy car ports and awnings.

Back on topic it would be useful to know the OPs home construction and if rented or owned, which can impact what they can accomplish.

 

I agree a safe is best but for inexpensive and quick get a coated cable or 2 the largest that will fit with loops. Aircraft or stainless steel would be best its harder to cut with bolt cutters or saw than chain and less conspicuous,bolt it to the wall behind the cabinet and put the padlock in the farthest corner.

 

I vote for buying a safe and putting the wooden cabinet inside.

 

The whole purpose of having a gun cabinet is to show off your treasures, and the whole purpose of hinged doors is to provide easy access.
In answer to your original question, you might replace the glass with polycarbonate and modify the door lock(s) to use a sliding lock much like glass entry doors. At best these will slow down a thief and deter the honest man.

My suggestion would be to create an obscure hiding place in a wall cavity and only keep your guns in the cabinet when you are at home. Then consider a gun safe when your finances permit. Best of luck with your problem.
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I would also suggest a gun safe. The cheapest prices I've seen them for is on Costco.com with free shipping the other day they had five or six at different price ranges.

 

If you have a man cave in your basement or in a spare room with a small window, you might want to replace the decorative interior door with a steel security door and door frame set with two deadbolt locks. The idea is to make to tough for them to get to your guns. After all even a gun safe can be broken into. Your job is just to make it hard for the criminals to do their thing, because thieves don't like to work too hard. It's why they steal instead of getting a job.Also a lower cost safe in a hard to get to area like a closet bolted to the wall and floor along with an alarm service should provide a deterrent.

 

You may install and inside alarm there that will help you more when anyone try to open that Cabinet.Because the other person don't know that he is going to triggered an alarm and you will be get alerted.But its a little costly...
gold coast security

 

Rottweiler chained to the gun cabinet..
I do have a safe but not everything fits in it..we don't have children around the house..even the Grandkids are all fully grown so that is not an issue...The guns I have that are not in the safe have the cylinders removed (in the case of my single action revolvers) and in the rifles, the bolts are removed...cylinders and bolts are stored in a very secure remote location...Yes they can get stolen but it would be obvious to a thief that the guns are not complete and not usable as is and would require purchase and fitting of new parts..might get stolen anyway but that's the best I can do...I've always wanted to have a couple of "surprise packages" ..rifles with a steel plug welded in the barrel for a thief to take...he just might not notice it and try to fire them...wheeeee.

 

Here is how to secure your glass cased gun cabinet.

1. Get 1 Calymore mine.

2. Set it up to go off if the glass is broken.

 

Won't make the cabinet stronger but look at dropcam.com At least you can see who's in your house and record them off premises. The camera can be put right in front where you will get a really good look at their faces. I don't have a gun safe, but I do have a pretty good hidey hole "in plain sight" so to speak, that holds around 8 handguns. Gun safes are not all that safe unless you get into the high dollar ones. Next time you are in a place that sells them, thump on the tops and sides. These days with battery powered drills and saws-alls, they just cut a hole in the tops and are gone in short order. I saw some photos of this technique and some pretty high end safes were compromised. I plan on buying a cheap steel "sacrifice" cabinet and putting a hundred pounds of lead in the bottom, chaining and bolting it down and letting them have at it. One thing that was mentioned in the article with the cut up safes was to put a label on the front proclaiming "cabinet contains black powder which may explode from contact with heat or shock". Of course some miscreants can't read or understand basic English, and I don't mean just aliens.

 

For the time being you can bolt a sheet of expanded metal on the outside of the door. I have had to do this to the garage and trap shed windows.

 

I like these. And no they arent as good as a real safe but they are a deterrent.
http://lockinggunracks.com/

 

just under $200

Unfortunately, there isn't much that you can do to make your cabinet secure. I would suggest trying to camouflage it in some way. You might be able to make it look as if it contained books by using an imitation book façade ( available at home décor stores). Another option would be to purchase a metal gun cabinet as sold by WM and most big box sporting goods stores. A lockable metal cabinet can be had for between $100 and $200 and while it isn't a safe, it will provide a bit more protection than your wooden cabinet.

 

At the least use a bicycle chain and lock thru the trigger guards.

 

When I grew up back in the 60's in rural North Carolina, we didn't even lock the house when we left.
Without a good safe now, you are begging to have your guns stolen.

 

+1. In 24 years of full-time LE, I've responded to many, many B&E calls. The scenario is almost always the same; homeowner comes home after work to discover that while he was out making a living, some worthless sub-human, too lazy to get a job for himself, has instead helped himself to the fruits of someone else's hard labor. Gun cabinets are great for displaying your guns, and for keeping small children from accessing them. However, they absolutely STINK when it comes to preventing theft. Trust me on this: A safe is your best option.

 

Can't remember exactly how I first came across this option, but it's pretty cool. Probably not any cheaper than a safe, though.

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Hey, We offer huge range of gun cabinets & Shotgun safes. Our high security locking gun cabinets are suitable for all shotgun & firearm applications.

 

See your insurance agent for a rider on your policy specifically for guns.
multiply that cost out and see the break even point for the cost of a safe.
then get one