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AEA wrote:May have been.....I really don't know......

But even if he did say that, I actually have one and know how to use it. Big difference.......

Something maybe he should have considered himself.......

Indeed.

Wasn't it John Lennon who, in a rare moment of lucidity, wrote, "Happiness is a warm gun."?

Paco wrote:So it would appear that the GunVault is the consensus on the board. I'll go pick one up then, I did see they have a biometric one which is kinda cool; I would hope swiping your finger wouldn't make much noise

I might be old fashioned but I'm leary of the biometric feature. What if I cut a finger and it changes what my print looks like? Or if my finger needs to have a band-aid on it?

I have a Quick-Safe that I bought years ago for around 100 bucks. It's bolted to the floor. It uses a simplex type mechanical pushbutton lock that I have programmed to open by just pushing two of the buttons. (No one is going to guess which two, right?) Pushing the buttons isn't totally silent, but they make very little noise. And it's a moot point anyway because I leave it unlocked when I turn in for the night.

Not to mention that the noise made by pushing the buttons is nothing compared the booming sounds that will be made if it turns out that I actually NEED to access the gun some night.

Paco wrote:I am looking for a good safe for the bedside, a quite one that I can access easily without moving (to give off that I am drawing). I have seen the VersaVault and the ADG Secure Vault, among some others, and they all seem to either make some sort of noise when the buttons are pressed or the door "snaps" open making a racket in the middle of the night.

Nothing you can buy will be totally silent.

The noise the box makes when you open it is nothing compared to the noise you will near if/when you pull the trigger. I wouldn't worry about it.

Besides, in my case, my German Shepard will be making such a racket at that point that no one will hear me accessing my gun.

Another thing is that I usually leave the box unlocked when I turn in for the night. I only lock it when I leave in the morning. I don't have any small children, so I don't worry about anyone (like a curious child) sneaking in and messing with it while I am asleep. And when my kids were small, they got training in gun safety so they wouldn't do anything like that anyway.