Gun Wall Panel Systems Compared: SpartanGrid vs Gallow, Hold Up Displays, Tactical Walls, Savior and SecureIt

There are six modular gun wall systems worth considering in 2026, and they split into three kinds:

• Steel panels with proprietary hangers (Gallow Technologies, SecureIt CradleGrid)
• Slatwall rails that take standard 3" fixtures (Hold Up Displays, Savior Equipment)
• An open bolt-through slot pattern that takes anything with screw holes (SpartanGrid), plus
• Tactical Walls' HDPE ModWall with its own accessory line.

The right one depends on whether you want to hang a few specific guns cleanly, store a lot of long guns densely, or build a gear wall.

We make SpartanGrid, so read this knowing that. Every price and spec below comes from the maker's own site, checked October 21, 2026, and we've included the places where a competitor beats us.

The Comparison:

n/p = not published by the maker. Per-size Hold Up Displays prices are from an authorized retailer; the maker site lists "from $29.99."

Where each one wins

Cheapest wall per square foot: SecureIt CradleGrid ($11–14/sq ft). If the goal is the most long guns on a wall for the least money and you're fine with a vertical-cradle look, nothing touches it. The catch is the install: SecureIt requires a plywood backer behind the panels and doesn't include hardware, and it doesn't publish a weight rating.

Best value for a slatwall ecosystem: Savior Equipment. $25/sq ft, 150 lb per panel (the highest published panel rating here) and it takes most 3" slatwall accessories, so tool hooks and bins from the hardware store work. It's imported and sold only in 5- and 10-packs.

Widest accessory range: Hold Up Displays. Seven finishes including wood tones, 180-day returns, and the largest catalog of racks, shelves and holders. The rails are 6" tall, so a 3' × 4' wall is six rails and a lot of screws, and the rating is 50 lb per stud per rail, which means stud mounting is mandatory.

Premium steel showroom: Gallow Technologies. 14-gauge steel like ours, custom panel sizes, lifetime warranty, and the lowest steel $/sq ft ($20 with the required support bar). Hangers are proprietary and Gallow doesn't publish a load rating.

Gear wall, not gun wall: Tactical Walls ModWall. The HDPE panel is the most expensive single panel of the group ($199–225) and carries a 1-year warranty, but the accessory ecosystem (helmet hangers, vest hangers, Hide-A-Mags, shelves) is built for tactical load outs.

No proprietary hangers: SpartanGrid. This is the one we built, and the design decision that separates it from the other five is the universal slot pattern. The panel is a field of continuous slots with no fixed pitch: any hole spacing, from zero to the width of the panel, lands on a slot. If a thing can be mounted with #8 screws, it bolts to SpartanGrid with the included nuts with no quantization and no adapters. We designed it that way because our own mounts have dozens of different hole-center distances, and a fixed grid would have fit none of them. That means all 322 Spartan model-specific mounts are compatible, but also a hardware-store hook, a shelf bracket, a Milwaukee Packout plate, or anything else with two holes is mountable. Every other system on this page locks you into its own hangers or a 3" slatwall standard. The steel is 14-gauge, each 10" panel is rated for 100 lb, and the rails are slotted so you hit studs when you can and use the included anchors when you can't; we hung 180 lb from one mount with the rails on drywall anchors alone.

The honest part about price

Per square foot of steel, SpartanGrid is the most expensive panel in the table: $43 against Gallow's $20 and Savior's $25. Two things offset it, and whether they matter depends on your wall.

1. You buy 10 inches at a time. You can purchase exactly the length you need, and always add to it in the future with extension rails. The many step in 24" or 48", so you can't fill your wall as easily.
2. The mounts are the cheap part, and they're not proprietary. Spartan mounts run $27–36 and you only buy the ones your guns need; anything else you already own with screw holes goes on for the cost of two #8 screws. On the proprietary systems the hangers are a second purchase on top of the sheet.

If you want the cheapest possible square footage and the maker's hooks are fine, buy SecureIt or Savior. If you want a steel panel that takes any mount with a screw pattern (ours or anyone's) and you want a fully modular system as your collection grows, that's what SpartanGrid is for.

Building out the wall

All six options tile on the wall, but they don't all connect:

• Hold Up Displays rails join end-to-end with a joiner piece and stack in 6" steps
• Savior strips butt together on alignment plates
• SecureIt panels index into each other but each one screws to the plywood on its own
• Gallow needs a support bar per column, so a wider wall is another bar
• ModWall sheets are screwed up individually, side by side or stacked.

SpartanGrid runs on one rail pair: a starter rail carries the first set of panels, an extension rail continues the same run, and every panel slides into the rails rather than getting its own screw pattern. The SpartanGrid slots are continuous across panel joints, so a mount can straddle two panels. The SpartanGrid wall is one surface, not a row of tiles. It's also the finest increment of the six: the wall grows 10" at a time, against 12" for Hold Up Displays, 24" for Savior and Gallow's narrowest standard panel, and 48" for ModWall. The smallest run of SpartanGrid is a 21" rail set with two panels, the smallest footprint in the group for tight spaces like closets or doors.

Installation, side by side

• SpartanGrid: mount a top and bottom rail, slide the panels in, bolt the mounts on. About 15 minutes per 40" wall
• Gallow: One support bar per column, then panels; screws sold separately.
• Hold Up Displays: each 6" rail screwed into studs at both channels; cut rails with a metal blade.
• ModWall: ~12 screws per panel into studs; two people recommended.
• Savior: pre-cut stud holes on 6¼" strips; levelers included.
• SecureIt: plywood sheet on the studs first, then panels; hardware not included.

Only SpartanGrid publishes a rating for installation on drywall anchors without studs. Everyone else requires studs (or plywood).

FAQ

What is the cheapest gun wall panel system? Per square foot, SecureIt CradleGrid ($11–14) and Gallow Technologies ($20 with support bar) are the cheapest steel panels; Savior Equipment ($25) is the cheapest slatwall. SpartanGrid costs more per square foot ($43) but is bought in 10" columns that each hold four rifles.

Which gun wall panel holds the most weight? Of the systems that publish a number, Savior Equipment rates 150 lb per panel and SpartanGrid 100 lb per 10" panel (200–400 lb per rail run). Hold Up Displays rates 50 lb per stud per rail. Gallow, Tactical Walls and SecureIt don't publish a panel rating.

Can I use third-party hooks on a gun wall panel? On SpartanGrid, yes. Anything with screw holes bolts through the universal slots with #8 screws and nuts, Spartan-made or not. Savior Equipment and Hold Up Displays accept standard 3" slatwall fixtures. Gallow, Tactical Walls and SecureIt use proprietary patterns that fit only their own hangers.

Do gun wall panels need to be mounted to studs? Most do. Hold Up Displays, Savior and Tactical Walls specify stud mounting; SecureIt needs a plywood backer. SpartanGrid's rails are slotted to hit studs but are rated with the included drywall anchors alone.

Which gun wall is best for a small space? The smallest SpartanGrid run — a 21" rail set with two 10" × 40" panels — holds up to eight rifles in 21 inches of wall width. For a closet, a narrow strip beside a safe, or the back of a door, that's the smallest footprint of the six; the other systems start at 24" or 48" wide.