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It will be built as a livable space with weight bearing joists and shared with a solid heavy block wall for mounting the cabinets. Already had the pleasure of carrying a couple of large Brattonsounds down a stair well in to a semi basement (by myself ouch!) in my current property. The joy of carrying rifle up and down stairs is what I do now so will be the same hence the mention of retrofitting a Stannah or similar at some future date was half serious. I will have an outdoor man-cave (shed) for reloading and rifle cleaning.

When I was a little lad my Father had a spare bedroom as a locked "gun room".... then when my Sisters came along he had to move up into the attic... ladders and dead bolted hatch.... the police passed it. He shot over land and also was in several clubs (mainly for his handguns).

Now-a-days the police don't really like people using attic spaces that are "awkward" to access as there is the temptation not to put a gun away securely when getting home late at night, wet gun from being "down the fields", or concerns that they'd wake the whole family up clambering into the attic.