Custom Gun Safes & Vault Doors

Buying Gun Safes for Home Safety-part 4

Buying Gun Safes for Home Safety
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Last Thoughts
Buy the biggest and best safe that you can. When I bought my first safe many years ago, I thought it would meet all my needs for the rest of my life. The trouble was, that since then I kept buying guns [...]

Buying Gun Safes for Home Safety-part 3

Buying Gun Safes for Home Safety
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Fire Resistance
There are something like 380,000 residential fires every year in the US – one every 83 seconds. The temperatures inside a burning house have been estimated at 1200 degrees or more. Under those conditions, a non fire resistant gun [...]

Buying Gun Safes for Home Safety-part 2

Buying Gun Safes for Home Safety
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What To Look For – Doors
Now let’s look at doors. As mentioned before, most safe doors use steel that’s sufficiently thick and hard enough to resist most types of direct attack for a reasonable period of time. First, you want [...]

Buying Gun Safes for Home Safety-part 1

Buying Gun Safes for Home Safety
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It’s an unfortunate fact of modern life that gun owners are at significant risk of having their guns stolen. Something like 4,000,000 homes are burglarized every year in the United States. It’s also been my personal observation that gun owners [...]

The Burglars Problem with Gun Safes

The Burglar’s Problem with Gun Safes

It will help if we can define the problem from the burglar’s perspective. Simply put, an intruder’s risk of getting caught increases with the amount of time that he spends in your home and the amount of noise that he makes while there. Therefore, [...]

Hinges-External vs. Internal | Gun Safes | Gunvault

Hinges-External vs. Internal | Gun Safes | Gunvault
We prefer gun safes with external hinges. These allow the door to open wider, a full 180 degrees–something you will appreciate every time you open the safe. Additionally, external hinges allow the safe door to be removed for easier transport and servicing. Contrary to some marketing claims, internal [...]

Gun Safes | Handgun Storage | GunVault

Gun Safes | Handgun Storage | GunVault
Placement in Safe
I recommend that handguns be placed in the top half of the Gun safes, at eye level if possible. This makes it easier to see what you’re looking for. Additionally, in the case of a flood or water leak, if your handguns are stored [...]

Gun Safes | Battle Against Rust & Corrosion

The Battle against Rust and Corrosion With any safe, you must take measures to protect the contents from rust and corrosion. A sage once said “rust never sleeps”. It’s kind of pointless to have a big, expensive safe if your valuable firearms are rusting away inside.
The first thing you should do [...]

Gun Safes Interior Lighting Systems

Gun Safes Interior Lighting Systems

Recommendation: Fluorescent lamp supplemented by LED string or rope lighting.
Interior illumination in a safe is not a luxury, it’s a practical necessity.
If you’ve ever prowled around in a dark safe in a dimly-lit garage, you’ll agree. Thankfully, there are very simple, inexpensive ways to light [...]

Gun Safes | Vault Doors | GunVault Seals

Gun Safes Door Seals for Vault Doors & Gunvaults
Recommendation: Full-length Palusol?
Gun Safes Door Seal
Many low-end gun safes are sold without any door sealing at all. That’s bad. Door seals are very important. First, a good door seal will keep out moist air, dramatically reducing the risk of rust forming on [...]