There are lots to look at when you shop for safes. Fire takes everything and a fireproof safe, properly sited, gives your guns a chance to survive a house fire. Burglars might pick and choose what they take. Safes can also protect your guns from fire. Any safe can be broken into, but the better safes will frustrate anyone besides a professional burglar and all of them will keep guns out of the hands of kids who shouldn’t touch them without supervision. Gun safes come in a variety of sizes, from one-pistol models designed to keep home defense guns locked up but immediately accessible to massive vaults that house entire collections of long guns like shotguns and rifles. It’s not just a good idea, but it’s the law in some places to provide secure storage for guns in your home. Responsible gun owners want to keep their firearms out of sight and locked away from thieves and curious kids. For that type of "peace of mind", you would have to spend at least $5000 to get a hardened plate welded secure system.The days of displaying guns proudly in a glass-fronted cabinet are over. It's a great storage solution for securing your firearms, BUT it is NOT a true hardened professional quality firearms/valuables security product. Winchester offers a good product and has additional standard features many don't - such as a door storage hanger and multiple shelves for customizing the interior. The quality and options of these low end "safes" are all over the place, and I looked around for weeks doing some comparison shopping. A true "Safe" would have at least 3/16"-1/4" hardened steel plating and reinforced door jambs with thick locking bolt receivers. We on the GG know that a portable Lithium Ion battery operated disk grinder with a 4-1/2" cutting wheel would open this thing in less than 10 minutes. It's not a "safe" by any measure, but good enough to keep prying eyes and unwanted folks from gaining immediate access. Overall - I knew what I was buying from TSC on closeout for less than $500. The mechanism is solid overall, but does not function as a true multi-bolt lock quality safe. The door is locked via eight 1" security bolts - four of which are static and only secure the rear of the door into the frame, while the front of the door has four dynamic bolts (actuated by the three spoke handle) that lock into appropriate recesses in the inner frame. The door itself is a composite sandwich of two layers of steel and sheetrock to provide extra frontal protection. It does come with a generic Chinese electronic push-button locking mechanism, and a three spoke door handle. What you see here is an example of a 12 and 14 gauge sheet steel lock box with a 1/2" sheetrock and carpet interior insulation to get a marginal fire rating of 1400 degrees for 45 minutes. Although Winchester does produce/contract many safes in the US, essentially most all the big box store offerings are usually made in China. This Winchester TS 26 (26 gun safe) and a similar TS-19 (24 gun safe) were specifically made for Tractor Supply by Winchester and imported from China. This genre of "safe" (regardless of manufacturer) can be considered more of an impressive looking lock box than a safe. The example used is my new Tractor Supply Corporation Winchester (branded) TS-26 (26 gun safe) that I purchased yesterday to store some of my firearms. This is a general comment on low-end firearm security cabinets or "gun safes", and covers pretty much any manufacturer who competes in the low - consumer end of the firearm security market.
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