America’s surge in gun sales and a revolutionary solution to store them

A couple of years ago I produced a TV special for the Discovery network Destination America called “ Armageddon Arsenalsa dark tackle the doomsday prepper madness that continues to grip the world – especially within the wake of the worldwide pandemic.

The documentary examined the why and the way of people that believed that lead (in the shape of bullets) was more helpful than gold and silver within the event of societal collapse. I remember walking right into a man’s gun storage room with seven gun safes (a great start, as they are saying in Texas), and he began opening the locked safes and pulling out his favorite weapons with which to defend his ranch against anything but Martians had defended. What struck me on the time was how long it took him to look through the safes to search out his favorite items. I remembered considering: Zombies just won’t give him that much time.

It’s the identical problem I’ve had with my very own safes over time, in that attending to the precise gun for the job often requires taking out multiple firearms before attending to the gun you would like. Meanwhile, it shouldn’t be unusual for one weapon to crash into one other, causing a domino effect of weapons falling into one another, leaving dents and scratches within the wood of old quail or partridge shotguns.

Like many hunters, my collection is as religiously independent as my sporting activities. If your hunting interests are diverse, an individual cannot hunt with one gun alone. Some require scopes and silencers, which is commonly a challenge for traditional gun safes, which frequently cannot accommodate every kind of firearms (and accessories) equally.

As gun sales have skyrocketed over the past decade, there at the moment are an estimated 425 to 475 million guns in America. India, with a population of 1.44 billion and 71 million firearms in civilian hands, ranks far behind the United States in firearms ownership. Given the astronomical rise in American gun ownership – greater than 17 million guns were purchased in 2022 alone – there’s an unprecedented must store these weapons safely.

For Tom Kubiniec, a recovering rock guitarist turned weapons cache expert who serves as CEO of Secure it, a pioneering company revolutionizing gun storage and security, there has long been an urgent must rethink gun safety in America. He speaks in an almost evangelistic tone when advocating for gun safety and protection. “Traditional gun safes simply don’t meet the needs of most gun owners,” he says. “They want their guns to be protected from those who shouldn’t have access to them, but they want the right people to be able to easily access both the guns and their many accessories.”

In 2008, the U.S. Army Special Forces Command called Kubiniec to assist it convert its overcrowded weapons racks into organized weapons storage systems. The result was a reimagined approach to gun security and access that reshaped military and law enforcement armories across the country and even the world. Today, he’s taking what he’s honed over a long time of working with the military and applying it to the much larger civilian market, because within the emerging sports, recreational shooting and residential defense categories there have been few options aside from traditional metal-cased gun safes.

The secret of Kubiniec and SecureIt’s success is that it has fundamentally modified the best way America thinks about weapons storage and homeland defense. Its complete line of customizable, lightweight and modular gun storage solutions and accessories represents a major turning point within the evolution of gun safes and firearm security. And its timing couldn’t have been higher, considering the nationwide rush for firearms and the increasing variety of first-time gun owners.

At the center of his motivation is gun safety. “It is our responsibility as gun owners to ensure that no one who should not have access to a gun can get their hands on one,” he said.

“From hunting to recreational shooting to personal defense, firearms are an important and celebrated part of American culture,” says Kubiniec. “Our customers love their guns and want the peace of mind that comes with knowing their firearms are secured when not in use.”

When you walk right into a room with a SecureIt gun wall or gun room, it’s clear that you simply’re experiencing a brand new day in gun storage. To paraphrase Mark Twain: The gap between the SecureIt line and traditional gun safes is the difference between the Lightning and the Lightning Bug. It’s no wonder gun owners who see and experience Secureit’s many options are trading of their old-fashioned metal box gun safes of yesteryear for something that appears prefer it’s straight out of the box The Matrix.

Kubiniec knows that when gun owners get to know his products, they need them. “We patented the CradleGrid technology, developed on behalf of the US Army Special Forces,” he says, “and to fully understand the system and why SecureIt is now the world leader in military weapons storage, you really have to interact with it.”

That’s why he’s launching a series of experience centers across the country. As a direct sales company, the centers offer customers the chance to experience the corporate’s full range of gun storage systems before deciding which products best suit their needs.

Part of this can include what he calls: Beyond the gun Education. “We created a curriculum to teach gun owners the principles of decentralized gun storage and show them how to train for quick access with their safe.”

The idea stems from what Kubiniec sees as a niche in American firearms education. “Almost all firearms training begins with a gun in hand or in a holster,” he says. “However, most people do not carry a firearm with them at home. Usually it is locked in a safe. With the right attention, training and practice, you can access firearms from a secured safe in less than 1.5 seconds. We can demonstrate that it is even faster than accessing an unsecured firearm from a closet or other hidden location.”

Currently, training facilities in Arizona are popular GunSite Academy and Virginias Outstanding tactics (near Washington DC) are home to SecureIt’s first experience centers. Kubiniec expects eight such centers to be in operation by the tip of 2025. Future locations are expected to be in Orlando, Las Vegas, Myrtle Beach, Colorado, Wisconsin and elsewhere.

“Gun storage in America has been static for almost 75 years and we want to change that,” he says. “And our new experience centers offer people the opportunity to better understand the connection between storage, security and home defense. About 15 years ago, SecureIt changed the way the military viewed weapons and equipment storage. Now we are doing the same thing in the civilian market.”