Gun Safe Haven

Remember in my post on gun cabinets when I said that I hated thieves because they force me to shove my guns into steel boxes instead of handsomely crafted wooden gun cabinets?  Of course you don’t remember that because you probably never read it.  Regardless, I no longer hate thieves quite as much…I’ve found a [...]

Swat : Special Weapons & Tactics for the Prepared American $34.95 Guns and Weapons for Law Enforcement Magazine (July 2010) $5.99 Soldier of Fortune $34.95 There’s a lot more to a safe lock than just the way it looks. Though image is a bonus, your primary concern when choosing a lock for your safe should [...]

If you read my previous post on wall safes, you already know how I feel about them.  I think that they serve fantastically as a way to get to your firearms as quickly as possible, specifically rifles, shotguns, and SMGs.  The problem with bedside style pistol safes is that you can’t typically lock up a [...]

Fingerprint safe, biometric safe, fingerprint reader…whatever you want to call it, what I’m referring to when I use anyone of these monikers is a gun safe that can be opened when the rightful owner of the unit swipes their finger across the safe’s scanner. High tech, I know, but with every year that goes by, biometrics technology gets better and better, and of course, cheaper and cheaper. You still pay a pretty penny for a gun safe that you can open with your pinky, but it’s a lot better than it was a couple years ago.

Sorry for the cheesy title, but there isn’t much that can make you feel cooler than pushing a painting aside, swiping your finger over a biometric fingerprint scanner, and pulling a ready to rack Benelli M4 out a secret hole in your wall. That Hollywood action-flick dream can become a reality with with the magic of a wall safe (that and $1500 to buy a new Benelli Super 90). Let my explain what I intend to do in this post. First, in my typical fashion, I’m going to tell you what I don’t like about wall safes, particularly for valuables, then I’m going to tell you what I do like.

I’ve praised Winchester Gun Safes quite a bit in several articles on this site, but I feel pretty strongly about their products. I admit, I’m a bit biased as I have two of them (if you count the EVault pistol safe), but if you’re looking for semi-substantial solution to keeping your valuables protected in the $700-$1500 price range, Winchester safes are extremely hard to beat. Gunsafes.com also shares my sentiments for this company, as they offer some of the best prices on their products.

People don’t generally associate Walmart with quality products. I don’t anyway. Usually when think of the mother of all mega stores, I think of a bunch of trailer trash going crazy for crap that’s inexpensive for questionably unethical reasons (I shop at Walmart, so I’m allowed to say that, right?). For this reason, the title of my article may sound a little odd. Why would you ever be interested in WalMart’s gun safe inventory? For the same reason people shop at Walmart in the first place – they’re cheap prices are next to unbeatable (and they offer free shipping and installation on their safes when you buy online).

Since their beginnings in 1972, the Illinois based company, Stack On has been manufacturing some of the best selling personal security products in the world. Their success isn’t necessarily a direct reflection of the quality of a Stack On gun safe, not that they specialize in making crap – they don’t – it’s just that a Stack On Elite doesn’t quite live up to its moniker when “stacked up” next to a Liberty Magnum (America’s best selling gun safe manufacturer…that’s my pitch) or a Browning Platinum Plus. Of course, when you compare a Stack On safe to the two aforementioned monsters, you probably can’t help but notice the $4000 difference in price either.