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Liberty Safe Confirms They Gave Feds Access Code to Gun Safe During Raid on January 6 Protester
Red State ^ | 9/6/23 | Jennifer Van Laar

Posted on 09/06/2023 4:40:38 AM PDT by CFW

Liberty Safe, "America's #1 heavy-duty home and gun safe manufacturer," according to their website, issued a statement late Tuesday night confirming that they'd given the FBI an access code to a customer's gun safe in response to a request on August 30, 2023. That request came during a raid on the home of a man who'd attended a protest on January 6.

The statement reads:

On August 30, 2023, Liberty Safe was contacted by the FBI requesting the access code to the safe of an individual for whom they had a warrant to search their property. Our company protocol is to provide access codes to law enforcement if a warrant grants them access to a property. After receiving the request, we received proof of the valid warrant, and only then did we provide them with an access code. Liberty Safe had no knowledge of any of the details surrounding the investigation at the time.

Liberty Safe is devoted to protecting the personal property and 2nd amendment rights of our customers and has repeatedly denied requests for access codes without a warrant in the past. We do not give out combinations without proper legal documentation being provided by authorities.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: banglist; dissent; freedom; government; jackboots; jan6th; libertysafe
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To: marktwain

They didn’t have a warrant to get the code. They just showed him the warrant to search the safe.


21 posted on 09/06/2023 5:15:10 AM PDT by roving (đź‘Śâš“Deplorable Listless Vessel with Trumpitist who looks Trumpish)
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To: Lurker
Change your codes.

Liberty Safes program in a secret backdoor code that you can't change.

In fact, most if not all electronic locks have secret backdoor codes.

22 posted on 09/06/2023 5:15:12 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: CFW

If your guns are in a safe, are you protecting yourself or your guns?


23 posted on 09/06/2023 5:15:18 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: marktwain

” they did the correct thing.”

Really? You think so? The courts granting a search warrant for an individuals property does not also mean vendors who have had business or sold products to that individual must provide information to aid in their search. A completely separate order is needed to force a company to divulge information to the courts.

Unless said order expressly ordered the safe manufacturer to turn over the combination, then this company did NOT do the right thing, they did the “easy” and cowardly thing.

If the order expressly told them to do so, they had no choice, but if all they had was a general search warrant for someones property, and LE showed up with that warrant, and gave over the access codes based on that, they did not do the “right thing” they did the cowardly thing.


24 posted on 09/06/2023 5:15:25 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: CFW

I am just wondering how they knew that he had a safe and knew what brand of safe he had. Sounds like a previous illegal entry is where they got that information.


25 posted on 09/06/2023 5:18:12 AM PDT by microgood
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To: Yo-Yo

Reason Number 2 to only have a manual system.

Reason Number 1 is that the digital ones aren’t very secure anyway.


26 posted on 09/06/2023 5:18:48 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: Yo-Yo

Reason Number 2 to only have a manual system.

Reason Number 1 is that the digital ones aren’t very secure anyway.


27 posted on 09/06/2023 5:18:49 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: microgood

I am just wondering how they knew that he had a safe and knew what brand of safe he had. Sounds like a previous illegal entry is where they got that information.
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It’s amazing how fast these bastards can act when it’s not Hunter’s laptop.


28 posted on 09/06/2023 5:20:33 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: CFW

Sounds like the FBI made the mistake of announcing that Liberty Safe had given them the code...so we’re seeing a pathetic, but valiant, attempt at damage control here.


29 posted on 09/06/2023 5:22:46 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: iontheball

Yep considering that the FIB has had that laptop for 4 years now.


30 posted on 09/06/2023 5:24:47 AM PDT by Texas resident (We are living through Barak's fundamental transformation)
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To: larrytown

Reason Number 1 is that the digital ones aren’t very secure anyway.
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Now let’s shift the conversation to old time manual tumbler safes. How safe are they? Is the term ‘safe’ just a misnomer?


31 posted on 09/06/2023 5:24:51 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: pepsi_junkie

“I’m wondering if their is some sort of master override code that ties to serial number so it’s not the same on every safe but the company can always help the owner unlock it ... or give it to the feds.”

My thought too, a backdoor code for ‘contingencies’. The next, OBVIOUS, question is just who has access to that back door? In other words, how many people at Liberty Safe can always pull up the code to your safe, and how carefully are those people screened.


32 posted on 09/06/2023 5:25:15 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: Tilapiafish2

“But I’m sure Microsoft bitlocker and telegram and others don’t have any backdoor, right??”

But we already know that - many got fooled here.


33 posted on 09/06/2023 5:26:11 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: Jane Long

“How many times have you had to “go to a locksmith about your gun safes”??”

Nice, I was wondering about that post too.


34 posted on 09/06/2023 5:27:42 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: larrytown
Reason Number 2 to only have a manual system.

A manual system would just force the FBI to destructively enter the safe.

I don't think this is true for Liberty Safes, but most smaller electronic locks have a manual key backup that can easily be picked (See the Lockpicking Lawyer.)

35 posted on 09/06/2023 5:29:52 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: CFW

Everyone opens their safe with a bad guy’s pistol in their two year old’s ear.


36 posted on 09/06/2023 5:32:27 AM PDT by Jim Noble (They don't think you know but I know that you do.)
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To: CFW

Changing your code means nothing. These are built-in manufacturer codes that cannot be changed by you.


37 posted on 09/06/2023 5:34:32 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: Yo-Yo

LPL is amazing. That’s the thing with manual safes, I’ve never seen one without a key bakcup even on full sized ones and guys like him can get that opened much faster than going to the manufacturer for a code.

I surprised they didn’t just drill it or something instead of this pr nightmare. It’s really letting the cat out of the bag for little return


38 posted on 09/06/2023 5:38:15 AM PDT by Tilapiafish2
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To: Reno89519
...but they’ve made it clear that none of the safes will stop a locksmith more than a few seconds. All they do is keep honest, people honest.

Yep, 100%. We had a Liberty safe wenched out of our deceased father-in-law's basement, and the (moronic) thieves made a cellphone video of them breaking into it. They had it open in less than a minute with crowbars.

39 posted on 09/06/2023 5:38:23 AM PDT by AnglePark (My opinion is the most worthless thing I own.)
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To: BobL
Sounds like the FBI made the mistake of announcing that Liberty Safe had given them the code...so we’re seeing a pathetic, but valiant, attempt at damage control here.

Lefty Apple put up more of a fight that Lib(erty) Safe.

40 posted on 09/06/2023 5:40:38 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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