Affordable and secure safe?

[Jim8300]

Two options to consider. Can be moved with one or two people.

https://www.snapsafe.com/modular-safes/

https://zanottiarmor.com/

[zachomega]

Called sturdy safe this morning. Placed an order. I definitely recommend calling as the website suggests. Knocked about 150$ off of the price.

Still setting up who will move it. But i have 8ish weeks to figure that out.

-Zach

[free]

In addition, DO NOT "advertise" or show-off you fancy security set-up with all of your friends and "buddies". Trust no one but you CLOSEST family!

Important, and usually overlooked: your biggest threat is typically an insider.

Your safe should be out of sight to any visitors to your home, in the course of any normal visit. This includes appliance repair people, HVAC repair people, delivery people, etc.

My safe is in a "closet", behind a locked steel door. No one would know there is a safe in the house without first going into that locked closet - and no one has any reason to do so, nor does anyone have the key to the locked door, except for me.

[JCinPA]

Awesome! I bet you watched some of those videos, dincha? I couldn't buy anything else for my second safe once I saw them. Good luck with it!

[free]

$500 gun safe:
https://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/sp...278156845.html

$1500 large double door safe that could be used for a gun safe:
https://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/bf...276236488.html

$500 medium size double door safe that could be used as a gun safe:
https://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/sp...272655976.html

$1500 commercial safe that could be used as a gun safe (1000+ lbs):
https://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/bf...266870783.html

[JCinPA]

Important, and usually overlooked: your biggest threat is typically an insider.

Your safe should be out of sight to any visitors to your home, in the course of any normal visit. This includes appliance repair people, HVAC repair people, delivery people, etc.

My safe is in a "closet", behind a locked steel door. No one would know there is a safe in the house without first going into that locked closet - and no one has any reason to do so, nor does anyone have the key to the locked door, except for me.

EXCELLENT security tip! I mentioned I had a cabinet built around my garage safe for just this reason. Bolted to the concrete slab, too, not going anywhere, for sure.

Here's what is normally visible, has locking bolt on it with small padlock. The other one is when I need to get into it, garage is always closed then.

Is it just me or is anyone else here perplexed about whether these are inserted inline or as thumbnails? I can't figure it out.

[Steve_NEPhila]

I will make an additional unsolicited security tip.

Avoid storing ammo with firearms!

Lots of companies advertise their safes as being fire rated, in that they may survive a certain duration and temperature of fire. If one spends money on that feature and then adds a combustible to the inside of said fire rated safe, they are defeating the purpose. Additionally, get enough ammo to cook off in your safe under the right circumstances and it turns into a really large grenade. Conversely, have zero ammo in your safe and high heat may make things a little melty. Choose your adventure...

[t1066]

JCinPA. Quote my post and look what I did. I click on the attachment and open in a new tab. Copy the URL from that tab and then wrap it in IMG tags

[free]

That's a really nice upgrade to a garage safe. Good work!

You just need to decorate it with some non-gun stickers.

On that note...avoid having any dead animal heads or hides decorating your house. They're a "dead giveaway" that guns are lurking nearby.

[Bang]

Nicely blued Triumph pipes.

I once tracked a deer I hit with a flintlock ball to the back yard of a home located among a mix of for-hunting and anti's in Bucks county. As I tentatively approached the front door, I saw a lot of taxidermy in the enclosed front porch. Yippee!! Guy helped me throw it into the trunk of my car.