Wednesday, October 17, 2007

How Safe Is Your Gun? A 12 Year Old Can Open Most Gun Safes.

A safe is essential if you have a gun at home. It is also essential that your safe is easy for you to use but difficult to access without your authorization.
Safes are made from tough, heavy gauge steel, typically half an inch thick. The safe may have two sheets of hard steel, with ball bearings sandwiched between the two layers. The ball bearings make drilling through the door or sides very difficult.
The door and lock are inherently the weakest points of any safe. Locking the safe door should operate hardened steel or titanium bolts on all four sides. Hinges are internal so that they do not present a weakness to an intruder.
Locks may be key, combination or fingerprint operated. The best safes have combinations of different types of lock and time delays View the rest of this article


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