Gun safes are typically used to secure guns, but the ammunition itself may be used to secure critical information from enemy capable in a combat zone.
A cartridge or shell could be hollowed out, with the gunpowder removed, to make a safe place for storing such essential data such as encryption codes and battle plans.
As ammunition can be found throughout a combat zone, it would be practically impossible to find such intelligence when so disguised.
Thus, instead of worrying about the contents of gun safes, enemy intel operatives should look to the rounds instead!
Although it’s a challenging job, and as our example shows, it would be like attempting to find the proverbial needle in a haystack.
The biggest problem in camouflaging such information, however, is the groundwork involved.
Removing bullets from their catridges and uncapping them safely is not tricky or very time-consuming, to be sure, but under most imaginable situations where such measure would need to be resorted time is probably of the essence.
This practice appears to have started with the First World War and an ingenuous way to prevent essential information from falling into enemy hands.
Think about it the next time you notice some gun safes and contemplate the ingenuity of man, how people seem to discover a way around just about anything!
Nonetheless, it’s not unusual considering how “necessity is the mother of invention” while “war is the father of all things” – and the human race overall has not known more than a century of peace combined in over some six thousand years of recorded history.
Ingenuity is what made us experts of the earth, and testing ourselves against others in so intense a manner as war has just honed such faculties.
