Posted on 07/24/2006 8:31:32 AM PDT by BronzePencil
Have you reconciled the contradiction of having a gun and being unable to get to it when most needed? This is a universal question.
Figure how big a safe you will need, then get 20% bigger.
You can't go wrong with Browning. Liberty is good too.
There are some very good discussions here: http://thehighroad.org/
Re: accessibility. Locked up or on your person while at home; loaded and accessible at night or other times you're at home seems to be the approach most often recommended. "Accessible" depends on the presence of children, their degree of familiarity with safety rules, their maturity, etc.
TC
No contradiction here.
I can only use one or two at a time....The others are safely stored.
Get something that you can open in the dark and in a hurry. Anything that takes a key or requires you to look at numbers on a dial is unacceptable. I have a model that uses a Simplex lock and I set it with a simply combination.
Is the safe for keeping the guns safe from kids/visitors or from theft. It'd make a big difference.
If it's from theft, you'll need to get one the thief can't just pack off with him.
If it's from kids, there are lockboxes that work really well for that.
Thanks to everyone for replying! I love Freepers!
Has this been answered to your satisfaction yet? :~)
There are times, in life, when the need to protect the guns from a tragedy involving kids or visitors outweighs the need for immediate access. We don't have kids, but when kids come over to visit, we have to make the guns safe.
And fire. Dont forget fire/floods.
I'm in the market for a safe that can also hold one or two rifles along with my other handguns and all my important documents (homeowners insurance, title, will, passports, jewelry while on vacation, etc.) to protect from fire and theft.
Anyone have any experience with a particular brand of safe they would like to share? Or are they all pretty much the same thing?
I don't know if one brand is better than any other. My dad ended up with both a gun safe big enough for rifles, ~and~ a fire safe for documents... So he evidently didn't find ~one~ that he thought would do both jobs for the price of two :~)
there's plenty around, the problems come in when you consider cost ($500 at the very low end, for a used one) and transporting it (you wanna move a 400lb+ safe?)
Nothing beats offsite storage of these small valuables. (Bank Safey Deposit Box.)
Mine easily holds two large handguns and would probably hold at least one small one in addition. It is through bolted on the bottom and the side to a permanently affixed wooden interior divider in my closet. A determined burglar with time and tools could cut it out, but nobody is going to rip it out by hand or in a hurry.
I keep a revolver in a drawer in our bedroom. We have no children at home, and my wife is comfortable with firearms. I put that handgun in the safe only when we are going to be away or if we have young children in the house.
bttt
Let me offer you one suggestion if you are going to keep your valuable papers in a safe at home or even if you are going to keep them in a bank safety deposit box. Make sure that somebody you trust (the executor of your will is a logical choice) knows where those papers are and has the necessary codes or keys to access them. If, God forbid, you and your spouse die in a common accident, this will save your survivors a lot of hassle at a time when extra hassle is the last thing they need.
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