I use ammo cans too. They work great. In fact I need to pick up another one. Brother in law came over the other day, and I was showing him a few items out of my gun safe. He immediately got on my case about the guns and my extra mags, being loaded. First it was about my kids,,,,,but they are in a locked safe!! Then it was,,,,,I am ruining my mags, keeping them loaded all the time like that. He owns one gun, no safe, and he keeps his ammo in another room from the gun. Oh, and he keeps the lock in the gun too! A lot of good that will do, if he gets robbed!