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Essential Safety Tips If You Have A Gun

By Margaret Burgess

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A safe is essential if you have a gun at home. It is also essential that your safe is easy for you to use but difficult to access without your authorization.

Safes are made from tough, heavy gauge steel, typically half an inch thick. The safe may have two sheets of hard steel, with ball bearings sandwiched between the two layers. Drilling through the door or sides are very difficult because of the ball bearings.

The door and lock are inherently the weakest points of any safe. When you lock the safe door, this should operate hardened steel or titanium bolts on all four sides. Hinges are internal so that they do not present a weakness to an intruder.

Locks are operated either by key, combination, or fingerprint. The best safes have combinations of different types of lock and time delays before a lock will open.

Key locks can be picked, even the most complex key operated lock can be picked by an expert. An expert can find a combination code on a rotary combination dials fairly easily. The best option for you is to have a keypad combination if you have a combination lock. There are no moving parts here that can go wrong or to give clues to a safe cracker who is listening to the lock as he or she operates it.

Keeping the keypad clean is also very important. If keys or either dirty or clean, it can give clues to anyone trying to get into your safe. You need to be sure that the combination you choose bears no relationship to phone numbers, birth dates or any other data that can be guessed.

Considered as the best option is a fingerprint-operated lock. Then you can have absolute confidence that while your fingers are attached to your body that nobody will be able to open your safe without your knowledge.

A fingerprint operated lock combined with a keypad combination lock, or a second fingerprint operated lock set up for a second person provides the best security for guns or valuables.

Usually, fire protection is built into home safes with layers of insulating material and expanding door seals that exclude oxygen and prevent combustion of the safe contents.

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Burgess, Margaret "Essential Safety Tips If You Have A Gun." Essential Safety Tips If You Have A Gun. 7 Feb. 2012. uberarticles.com. 11 Apr 2012 <http://uberarticles.com/home-and-family/babies-toddler/essential-safety-tips-if-you-have-a-gun/>.

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