Antique "gun" safe

[The War Wagon]

It is unreal how heavy this thing is, I will have to get it into the house and after that I hope to never have to move it again.

I planned to remove the wood shelves and turn it into a gun safe, I have started trying to trace the history of the safe and now I am having second thoughts about tearing out the shelves. I really have no use for it with the shelves but I feel bad for gutting something that seems to have some unique history

 There's the rub.  Make it into something YOU can use, or fix it up, and sell it to someone, for THEIR use.