Finding the Best Gun Safes for the Money

Gun safes are an essential item to have in your home if you are a gun owner. They provide secure, safe storage for keeping your firearms out of little one’s hands, and they can provide additional security from fire or burglary attempts, not only for weapons but other valuables as well.

But, when deciding which gun safe to purchase, which features should you be looking at?

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What features should you consider

Safes & Post Tension Slab

Why You Don't Want to Cut or Drill into Post Tension Slab

When drilling or cutting into a post-tension slab, it's possible to hit a tension cable.

If that cable is damaged, it can not only weaken or cause damage to the foundation, the cable can even snap and rip right up through the slab, causing serious injury or even death to someone standing nearby. You do NOT want this to happen.

If it's a new home, putting any holes

What Type of Safe Should You Buy

What You're Putting in Your Safe Determines Which Safe You Should Purchase

The worth of the safe's content is the main consideration when buying a safe. Safes are like parachutes, when you need one you don't want it to be made cheap. When protecting your money, do not go cheap. Here are our recommendations based on what you are putting into your safe.

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Hollon Gun Safes Compared to Other Brands

Learn the Most Important Features of a Safe 

How the Hollon BHS 90-Minute Gun Safe Compares to Similar Brands

How the Hollon RG 120-Minute Gun Safe Compares to its Leading Competitor.

Get the Best Fireproof Home Safe

The Carr fire in Redding, CA destroyed many homes. It also destroyed many so called "fire safes."

But why? The safe shown in the picture was a fire safe that claimed to have a 2-horu fire rating, yet it was completely destroyed.

But then...further down the road was an AMSEC 2 hour fire rated safe. Still standing. Charred and barely recognizable from the outside, but standing.

What would the locksmith find when he opened

How Much Fire Rating is Needed in a Gun Safe or Document Safe?

As with any security product, the amount of fire rating you need in a safe depends on your specific needs and circumstances. Your needs are based on what you are putting into the fire safe. Your circumstances are things like how long will it take for the fire department to get to you.

Overview:

A 30-minute fire-rated safe is sufficient to protect documents in homes under 1500 sf located

Safe Fire Ratings Explained

UL? KIS? JIS? 30 minute? 1hr? 2hr? Class A? Class B? Class C? Drop test?

What do all of these safe fire rating classes mean?

A safe's fire rating indicates how long the internal temperature of the safe will remain below the specified temperature. Factors affecting fire ratings include the certifying agency, external test temperature, duration below the specified internal temperature, and the safe's ability to survive a

What Are Safe Burglary Ratings?

Purchasing a safe can be a big investment, but how do you know you're getting the right safe for your needs? Safe burglary ratings can be very confusing.

Safe burglary ratings range from: none, B-rated, C-rated, E-rated, RSC I, RSC II, TL-15, and TL-30, with TLX6 being the highest commonly available rating. Only RSC I and above ratings are independently tested and verified by a third-party testing facility.

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Know Which Safe to Buy

Is the cheapest safe the best safe?

Is the most expensive safe the best safe?

Are those safes on the "top" lists of safes that Google loves to rank #1 the best safes?

No, No, and definitely no.

When choosing which safe to buy factor in the thickness of door & body, bolt size, and the safe's weight. Use those factors to buy the best safe at your budget. Ignore biased 'top' lists; reviewers likely never touched those safes. We're

The Best Gun Safes For the Money are by Hollon

Hollon Gun Safe Line

Overview:

ACME Locksmith endorses Hollon gun safes as the best gun safes for the money for several reasons. At similar pricepoints, you'll be hard pressed to find a better built safe than a Hollon gun safe. They offer high fire ratings, steel bodies up to 30% thicker, proprietary life-time hinges, more standard features, and thicker doors than competing brands in the same cateogry.