t-bilt

I bought a Liberty 48 Gun Safe several years back from Southern Security Safes for $1100 bucks. It weighed over 1100 pounds (so a buck a pound??)! I found the guy listed in the back of an American Rifleman...NRA magazine I get. It was the best deal I found in the Southeast. He is located in Kingston, TN. You can google it if interested... The thing I remember most was the guy asking me if I lived in a rural area or city. His wisdom helped me make a good decision. I live in a rural community with a little acreage. The sales guy told me that a professional never goes through the door. They know it is reinforced and is the strongest part of the safe. Additionally he said crooks typically take an axe and come down on the top of the safe with the corner or toe of the axe blade and pierce a hole in the top big enough to get a reciprocating saw with a metal blade in the hole or drill a series of holes. From there it is only an amount of time till they open the top of the safe like a can of tuna, reach in and take the contents. He said that any safe can be compromised...what you are doing is buying time by getting the thickest safe you can afford. He advised against laminated safes that had two thin layer of metal with the fire board sandwiched between. He said the thin metal was very easy to pierce. He also said very few if any crooks use a torch. It would set the house on fire and damage the goods inside The guy sold me on a safe with 3/16" thick skin (top back and sides) the door is 3/8" with 1" bolts and a S&G lock with a 45 minute @ 1250 degree fire rating. I made sure to bolt the safe to a concrete floor in my garage with 1/2" redhead drop in anchors. You can move a safe pretty much any where you want with several pieces of 1" schedule 40 PVC pipe cut 30" long. If you can tip the safe up with a pry bar and shove the pipe under it it will roll like it's on bearings. Just keep putting the pipe pieces that comes out the back in the front or direction you want to go and you can walk it along... get to a corner or turn and it will slide / rotate on the PVC easy enough. Some of us old timers remember folks moving buildings on poles... Now you know why it needs to be bolted down. A crook will take a safe that can be moved to a safe location and take their time breaking into it. For extra protection against fire with precious documents and memorabilia I have a sergeant fire safe inside my Liberty gun safe. Now I have no need for a safety deposit box rental at the bank. One last observation!!! I have a very close friend that had a beautiful Browning Safe with an admirable collection including a matching engraved pair of colt SAA's and some sweet O/U shotguns. He came home to find the entire collection gone! His dilemma was that he had forgot to spin the combination! These things won't keep out the trash if you don't keep them locked... Now lets all take a moment to hope and pray that all perps that steal a collections shoot themselves in the face while playing with our hard earned treasures...amen

Yeah... what Mike.357 said. There in the business of people repair which really isn't much more reassuring than a local car mechanic... The pharmaceutical companies basically own them. They will insure you are well medicated when you leave the office. If you have a complication from the crap their pushing they'll prescribe another medication the cover that "problem". Kind of like my dentist wanting to cap a cracked tooth that I have had for seven years now with no pain and no problem other than that he can see it when I go in for a cleaning. I have been telling him all this time that I'd like to keep my funds in my bank account so I can put my kid through school...not his! LOL