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by The Annoyed Man
Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:39 am
Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
Topic: How secure is your safe?
Replies: 17
Views: 3361

Re: How secure is your safe?

I responded to that video thusly:
Well, I own a Liberty safe. Notice that the "thieves" tipped the safe over on its back, AND, notice that the safe is not bolted to the floor. MY safe is bolted to the floor, and backed up to a brick exterior wall. You would have to tear the wall off my house to get into this safe in 1:45 minutes. By then, my pit bull would have gotten to you, and I'd have shot you multiple times with my bedside guns. No, the Liberty safe is not perfect, but proper installation makes a lot of difference.
Here is what I find irresponsible about the video...

For most of us, a good safe is a big investment, just like the salesman in the video said. My Liberty safe cost me $1,150.00 (plus tax) delivered, installed, and bolted to the floor. For me to save twice that amount before buying a much more expensive safe of similar capacity would have probably discouraged me from buying one at all. I would have instead invested in a $200 gun locker from Academy and left it at that. People of good conscience buy the best that they can afford to buy. Trying to lay a guilt trip on them because they could not afford more is just cheesey, and I cannot respect the huckster who would do that. If you can afford a Ferrari, by all means buy one and enjoy it, but don't belittle people who can only afford a Yugo. We all do the best that we can do.

Plus, what I couldn't say on the youtube site because of the limited number of characters you can post, to tear out that exterior wall of my home, you would have to defeat a wrought iron gate to get to that part of my driveway, and you would be VERY visible to my neighbors the whole time you were attacking the wall. To pull the safe over from the inside, you would have to find a way to tear it off its bolts, which would necessarily tip it over onto the door. By that time, you'd be dead. Plus, this is not an empty safe. It has the added weight of a number of rifles and pistols, not to mention several hundred rounds of ammo in different calibers.

Is my choice of protection perfect? No, it isn't. But it is pretty darn good for a safe in the $1,000 price range. But even if all you could afford is that $200 gun locker, a little bit of thought about where you're going to place it and how you're going to secure it to the floor can go a long way to improving your security picture. I would encourage anybody to spend as much as they can on a safe, but don't feel bad because you can't spend like a millionaire.

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