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An example (open and closed) of a typical gun safe.
A gun safe is a secure and protective storage container for one or more firearms, and/or ammunition. Gun safes are primarily used to prevent access to unauthorized or unqualified parties, for burglary protection, and, in more capable safes, to protect the contents from damage during a flood or fire. Access prevention is required by law in many places, necessitating a gun lock, metal gun cabinet, or gun safe. Gun safes have largely replaced the gun cabinets made of fine stained wood with etched glass fronts used for display that were commonly used decades ago, although some gun safes are made to resemble such gun cabinets.
Contents
1 Manufacturers and features
2 Potential risk
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
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Manufacturers and features
Gun safes come in many shapes and sizes, and may include additional security features such as fire or water protection, voice-activated lock, and fingerprint identification. The internal locking mechanisms differ in both strength and quality, and manufacturers boast about different aspects of their respective safes.
Some major gun safe manufacturers include:
American Security Products (AMSEC)
Brown Safe Manufacturing, Inc.
Browning Arms Company
Cannon
Fort Knox
Liberty Safe
SentrySafe
Better gun safes in the United States are tested by Underwriters Laboratory (UL), with those safes achieving UL certification being given Residential Security Container (RSC) certifications by UL. Various grades of RSC certification exist, measured in the time that the safe provides protection against forced entry. The primary advantage of buying a safe having UL certification, to a gun safe buyer, is to make certain that minimum security capabilities exist for the safe, as well as to guarantee 10,000 openings/closings of the safe lock are expected under normal use. The use of a large number of active bolts in the door along all sides of the door is also an advantage against burglary, although attacks against the sides, top, or bottom of the safe can overcome otherwise largely very secure gun safes.
Electronic locks as well as mechanical locks are available on many models of safes. The highest reliability exists for mechanical locks, although they are often more time consuming to open than electronic locks. Some mechanical combination locks have key locks, too, that lock the combination lock dial from turning, thereby precluding casual attempts by anyone with physical access to the safe from trying multiple combinations in the hopes of unlocking the safe.
Some safes provide only protection against burglary, with no fire rating or flood rating. More expensive safes can also provide protection against burglary, fire, and flood, with even protection against rust being provided by an electrical heater located inside the safe to keep the interior of the safe warmed to above the dew point, precluding the formation of moisture from the air from rusting guns. Such heaters are required for safes providing fire protection, as the fire lining holds moisture as a means of providing protection against fire. Most gun safes that provide only protection against burglary, with no fire lining, require no heater as long as they are stored in dry areas inside a home for which environmental changes are modest. Stored in an unheated garage or shed, however, even gun safes without fire linings typically require an electrical heater be installed to prevent rust from forming on firearms.
At the high end of the market, vault doors are available for creating walk-in gun safes or vaults in a dedicated room or gun armory in one's home. Such rooms are also sometimes used as a dual-use gun safe or panic room, or even as a dedicated shelter for use in the case of a tornado or hurricane.
Likewise, at the high end of the market are gun safes with a wood veneer and very thick tempered glass, that resemble the wooden display cabinets used for displaying guns in gun cabinets made of wood with etched glass fronts that were commonly used in decades past.
Some gun safes are hidden from obvious view, being built with wooden armoire furniture coverings, or an exterior resembling a cedar chest, i.e., a long horizontal chest commonly used for storing linens, for gun safes intended for open display in a room, such that casual entry by home repairmen does not disclose the existence of a gun safe at the residence. False walls with hinges located at one end of closets are also sometimes used to hide gun safes, although simply installing a gun safe in an existing closet with a door that closes can achieve much of the same advantages to prevent home repairmen from becoming aware of the existence of a gun safe.
Potential risk
Although rare, large gun safes may pose a hazardous risk to small...(and so on)
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