Your Online Safe Guide

A step that many gun owners often fail to recognize when they purchase their first firearm is that they now must determine the best method to store their weapon correctly. There are a number of different choices they can make, and each situation can yield different recommendations for storage. Whether it is a gun cabinet, safe, or other storage device, it is important to evaluate your needs before finalizing your purchase.

There are a couple of good circumstances that warrant the purchase of a full-fledged gun safe rather than a cabinet. The first of which is the situation at the place the weapon will reside. If there are small children, irresponsible teens, or other undependable individuals, locking up your firearm is of the utmost importance. Not only do safes offer the best locking mechanisms, you can install features such as biometrics scanners or digital locking devices. These additional measures help to ensure you can keep your family safe.

The second reason for the purchase of a gun safe is the need to safely secure the firearms from risk of damage or theft. If you have made a sizable or expensive gun purchase, it makes sense to insure that investment from risk of fire damage, water damage, or theft. Gun safes can come prebuilt with these additional protections included in the safe.

For more budget minded individuals, metal gun cabinets can be a good alternative. These will often offer similar locks as lower-end safes, and can allow you to lock up your weapons from casual intrusion. The lower price for the units also eliminates the additional fire or theft protections. If this is not a concern it may be an excellent alternative.

Another scenario that occurs often enough is those gun owners that wish to showcase their collection for everyone to see. The best way to accomplish this is through the use of a wooden gun cabinet. Finely crafted, and uniquely designed cabinets offer little safety, but provide a beautiful setting to highlight your gun collection.

Pistol Safes come in many different sizes and applications.  They also have various locks styles made by most top safe manufacturers.  You should review each type and decide which pistol safe will work best for you and your application.

Vehicle Pistol Safes

A common request for users that carry a pistol either for their profession (law enforcement) or personal protection is that they have a place to secure their gun inside their vehicle.  This requirement can be driven by entering a location that prohibits weapons or at a time that the user chooses to not carry their handgun.

Some pistol and handgun safes are generic, some are vehicle specific. Console Vault sell pistols safes for the larger center consoles of some SUV models such as the Cadillac Escalade, Chevy Tahoe, and Suburban to name a few.  They even make one for a Harley!  These can be fantastic additions to your vehicle that are discreet, but very secure as they mound directly inside the arm rest console.

Other pistols safes are smaller versions that can fit under seats or possibly mounted to the trunk or rear floor of the vehicle.  Many of these can come with combination or can even be Biometric safes.

Size of Pistols Safes

Most Pistol and Handgun safes can accommodate at least 2 pistols with little effort.  Most are have padded interiors to keep scratches of both the safe and gun to a minimum.  This padding also cuts down on noise if a quiet retrieval is required or if it is mounted in a vehicle it prevents it from being that nagging sound you hear as you drive down the road (as the gun clanks against the metal box)!

Pricing of Pistol Safes

Prices for pistol safes can range from $99 for products from GunVault to as much as $340 for the BioMTRX BioVault 2.0.

The best pistol safe is really dependent upon the application that you are going to use it for.  Check out our sponsors and links for more information.

The protection of your home and valuables, from burglaries, fire or other kinds of forced or emergency entry, is something most people think about at one time or another. Many people invest in having a security safe or a fire safe to guard important documents and valuables, but what about the safety of your entire house? Have you left that in the hands of a doormat or a potted plant? What? Of course not! But many people do. After spending thousands of dollars on doors and windows and locks and security safes for valuables, they leave the main door key under a mat.

Digital Key Safe Boxes

The alternative is key safe boxes, especially the digital models that have a secure combination that can be entered just like any alarm system, very easily.

How large are they and where are they placed?

Key safe boxes are designed in a few different ways to accommodate different needs. The simplest variety will hold one or two keys and therefore is a small box that can easily be attached to a wall, a gate, a floor, or anywhere that’s convenient yet out of site. They do not attract attention any more than a small security panel would cause an intruder to want to break in. They are high-tech devices but easy to use.

What’s their Purpose?

Digital key safe boxes are designed with one specific purpose. To allow only authorized people access to a spare key to open your home, your car, your office or other building. Instead of giving each person, who occasionally requires a key to your door, an individual spare, you have one in a box on the premises. This enables children who come home from school to enter unaided. It may also be useful for an authorized maintenance person to enter and do work while a homeowner or apartment tenant may be away at work. It is also a means for elderly individuals to receive prompt care by emergency medical personnel even if they are unable to open the door. The access code to the key, or keys inside the safe box is known only to those who you give it to. Should there ever be a need to change the code, it’s easy. No need to call anyone, just follow the instructions and do it yourself.

Are They Expensive?

No. Small home key safe boxes cost almost nothing, around $25 to $40. Naturally there are many models, some cheaper others more expensive, but they are a relatively small investment.