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Fingerprint hand gun safe
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Interesting experience getting my Moms hand gun safe open. Son had put a BB gun inside. Mom couldn't get it open . So I brought it home. Drilled the lock..wouldn't open. Pried with a large screw driver..bent the top wouldn't open... So I got out the sawzall and cut it open. Found a Daisy 340 BB Pistol inside that looks like a beretta 92. Pretty strong box but now strong enough .
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I once told a safe maker, he made very good safes by the way, that I could get inside any safe he made in 20 min. He started telling me about the locks and ball bearings imbedded in the front door and all the locking bolts. I told him I had a 4 1/2" Milwaukee grinder and some cut off wheels that would cut the back right out of his best safe. I had just returned from Kansas City Transit where I had used that grinder to cut a dumpster in half so I knew I could cut a safe open.
Safes keep the casual thief or kids out and act as a deterrent for the experienced thief that doesn't want to take the time or make the noise required to get in. Small pistol safes are only to prevent the former as the latter will just steal the safe and open it later at their leisure.
When I was in high school I worked for a guy that had a 4' x4' by 5' tall floor safe. It was made with sandwiched walls of 2 layers of steel with 6 inches of concrete between the layers. The dial had a rod that went all the way through the door and ended in a metal bracket that contained 2 glass vials of tear gas. If a thief tried to do a common punch job on the dial the rod would be driven into those vials and release the contents. Sometimes the old technology worked pretty good. Bob
Wow..........I want that set-up
My gun safe is a repurposed federal government secure documents safe . It is 2 foot wide about 5 foot tall and 4 foot deep . Weight is unknown but close to 1500 lbs is a good guess . All sides top bottom and back is 1/2 inch plate steel . S&G mechanical lock .