Category: Gun Safes

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KEEP YOUR GUN or GUITAR COLLECTION SAFE

Count (4) – 72″x60″x27″ Double Door Gun Safes – We build the safes to insure that you receive the lowest possible prices you’ll find anywhere. We are able to provide you with a large selection of Custom Sized Gun SAFES and our Custom Guitar SAFES for either your residential or commercial needs. Make sure and [...]

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Gun Safes | Metal Thicknesses | Vault Doors

Gun Safes | Metal Thickness It’s always important to find out the metal thickness of the safe your looking to purchase – A good safe body is made of at least 10 Guage which is 50% the thickness of a 1/4″ & 1/4″ door as minimums will get you good protection. But, the thicker the [...]

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Buying Gun Safes for Home Safety-part 4

Buying Gun Safes for Home Safety page 4 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 and not selling [...]

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Buying Gun Safes for Home Safety-part 3

Buying Gun Safes for Home Safety – page 3 – 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 safe is nothing more [...]

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Buying Gun Safes for Home Safety-part 2

Buying Gun Safes for Home Safety – page 2 – 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 to see whether the [...]

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Buying Gun Safes for Home Safety-part 1

Buying Gun Safes for Home Safety – page 1 – 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 seem to be particularly targeted [...]

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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, the question is what steps [...]

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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, [...]

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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 well [...]

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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 is attach seals [...]