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Long Gun Safe... what do you guys use?
Ronvandyn:
With determination any safe can be opened. They keep honest people honest, and are really no impediment to the determined criminal.
A comment on the bottom of that video made a real good point, the video assumes that they can knock the safe over allowing for the crooks to put their full weight onto the tools rather than having to use main strength alone. Its why safe?s (even the cheap one?s) come with lag bolts. Bolt the sucker to the wall and it dramatically increases both the effort and time needed to break into a safe.
I don?t have an expensive safe, because I can?t afford one. But I have a safe. It keeps my kids out of my guns, it keeps some other important things away from prying eyes and hands, and my wife insisted on one. Its bolted to the cinder block wall in the basement and isn?t going anywhere without my personal ?OK?.
Ron
AAllen:
I have an older Winchester, not real expensive but not one of the cheap tin things either. I have it lagged to the floor setting in a corner withe the hinge side out. You can't push it over and you can't get tools into the area needed to even try to power it open.
Could it be broken into, as someone who has worked with/in security; yes, anything can be broken into. These efforts just make it harder to do so.
Hardwood83:
There is a lot of wisdom dispensed here. I would only reiterate what many others have said:
Buy the best safe you can afford, understanding fire-resistance is not cheap. Get bigger then you think you'll need. Good news for you is gun safes are much more prevalent and affordable then when I got my first one about 12yrs ago.
shaggy853:
I spent my money on security cameras.
I have a $600 Liberty from sams club and it fits my needs just fine. sure, if professionals come into my house they could probably get into it but i cant justify spending $3k on a safe to protect $5k in guns where i am. with all the ammo in the bottom, 2 people wont tip it over. and even if they did get into it they might need to worry about the 21 infrared cameras all over the inside/outside of the house that have motion detection and email notification.
my house was broken into shortly after i moved in before the safe and the cameras, havent had anything happen since.
Dark Helmet:
bleep, I hate arfcom... the attitudes on the site are HORRIBLE...
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