... I do the locked individual container/cable lock in a locked closet now but hoping to upgrade a little. If I put a lock on this oversized closet can I keep ammo in there without it being in cabinet? Or is that a no no? Worried about weight in that cabinet.
Ammo storage is fire code.
527 CMR §1.12.8.39.1.1.4 sez:
Permits Not Required. Permits shall not be required for the following:
...
(2) Small arms ammunition, primers, smokeless propellants and black powder stored in
original containers and stored in a locked cabinet, closet or box when not in use ...
Gun storage is statutory law, and has case law.
COMMONWEALTH vs. STEPHEN PARZICK., 64 Mass. App. Ct. 846 sez:
If you have a cheesy bathroom-privacy-hatpin-unlocking lock on your bedroom door,
and you store guns'n'ammo in your bedroom closet,
Maybe you're planning on turning your closet into Fort Knox.
But if someone ever tells the cops you've got "a closet full of boolits",
and they don't like that, they're not gonna care about details.
All it takes is someone breaks a leg slipping in the shower,
or a squirrel blocks the chimney and the CO alarm goes off,
and you've got all sorts of people poking around your house.
Just put your ammo in
locked ammo boxes and be done with it.
It works for everything except bulk pack like
Bucket O' Bullets (in theory).
(Because the fire code requires that ammo not in use
be stored in its original packaging,
and you can't cram a bucket into a .30 cal ammo box).
So put all your buckets in some locked cabinet or closet.
This is 2021AD.
You
do have buckets full of ammo, right?