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tomtexan wrote:

FL450 wrote:I want to thank everyone or the feedback.
I have a few rifles/shotguns but need the room for pistols and ammo as well.
My space is somwhat limited so I will have to make some compromises.
Now that I am armed with great feedback and suggestions from your responses I have some homework to do.
What other things do I need to look at when considering a safe??

Just a FYI, there are a lot of youtube videos on the various brands of gun safes. Some of them show how easy it is to break into them.

Unfortunately, most of those videos are designed more to sell their particular safe than as a realistic depiction of how vulnerable a particular safe is. The one with the 10 foot long pry bar for instance....it depends on the leverage provided by the pry bar and the fact the safe is on the ground. With an upright safe bolted to the floor in a typical home, it's MUCH more difficult to pry open a safe like they do in the video. And it should be impossible if there are locking bolts on all four sides of the safe. Now, if they show up with a metal saw, it may be a different story.