High Security Gun Safes

When you want the best gun safe, something that is really going to protect the valuables you put in it, you want a UL-certified burglary rating of at least RSC I. For details on burglary ratings, see our YouTube video, Burglary Ratings Explained.

What to Avoid

In order for a gun safe to be sold cheap, it needs to be made cheaply. I’m sorry but the best gun safes are not cheap. This is really a case of, “You get what you pay for.”

Cheap gun safes found at big box stores or discount warehouses will NOT protect what's inside of them. Cheap safes have very thin metal wraps, thin metal doors, thin bolting rods, small diameter or hollow door bolts and believe it or not, some are even be plastic.

Just look at the warning on this safe.

Choosing the Best Gun Safe

The best gun safes have these three things in common. 

Door thickness of at least ¼ inch.

We’re talking about the plate of steel that is covering the entire exterior of the door. We’re not referring to the entire thickness of the door (doors are mainly air).  You want a safe door that has a solid door plate, over the entire door, of at least 1/4" to prevent prying. 

The best built gun safes for door thickness are link AMSEC BFX and BFXII gun safes. They are RSC I and RSCII rated and most in the line of 1/2 inch solid steel doors. 

Solid steel, big diameter, long bolts.

In our YouTube video Choosing the Best Safe we show you what those big box store safe bolts look like. Hollow, shallow bolts that don't prevent squat. You want solid steel bolts of at least 1 1/4 inches in diameter and 2 3/8 inches in length. 

One of our favorites are the Hollon RG RSC-rated gun safes. The RG Line has 1 1/2 inch solid steel bolts that are very nearly 3 3/8 inches in length.

Weight.

The heavier the safe the better. 

Many gun safes are tall and narrow, this gives a burglar leverage to knock them over and start attacking the door with 6’ plus crowbars. A door thickness of 1/4 inch as discussed above helps stop this threat, but if that safe never falls over in the first place, there’s no hope of prying the door. 

We sell gun safes up to 2500 lbs. We can get them heavier, but we don’t have the equipment to install them. If you need a bigger heavier safe than you see on our website, and you have the lifts needed to get them installed, just let us know and we’ll get you what you need.