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Gun safes are typically used to secure firearms, but the ammunition itself can be used to secure critical information from enemy capable in a combat zone.
A cartridge or shell may be hollowed out, with the gunpowder removed, to produce a safe place for storing such essential data such as encryption codes and battle plans.
As ammunition can be found all over a combat zone, it would be almost impossible to find such intelligence when so concealed.

Thus, rather than worrying about the contents of gun safes, enemy intel operatives should look to the rounds instead!
Although it’s a difficult job, and as our example illustrates, it would be like making an attempt to find the proverbial needle in a haystack.
The most important problem in camouflaging such information, however, is the planning 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 have to be resorted time is probably of the essence.

This practice seems to have started with the First World War and an ingenuous way to prevent important 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 find 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 as one has not known more than a century of peace mixed in over some six thousand years of recorded history.
Ingenuity is what made us masters of the earth, and testing ourselves against others in so intense a manner as war has only honed such faculties.