I have a champion ch 35. 1350F for 1 hour fire rating, 995lbs. Champion might not be the cheapest safes out there, but for the money they are hard to beat. Safes you buy at sams/walmart/sears, etc are there for one thing. Price. If you just want a lock box they will do the job. But if you want a safe you are going to spend 1k+. One thing with safes now days, get them to take off the back door panel and look how the bolting system works. Then find out how the door is made. Some clame to have a 1" door, but are only 12ga Steel formed to look like 1". The U.L. rating on a gun safe is only a 5 min rating. It doesn't take much to get that rating so that is why you can get away with some chessey doors and locking systems in safes.
I work for a safe store, and we are always on the look out for new brands to bring in. We have carried Liberty, Champion, Amsec, Gardall, and even the Winchesters. Right now the only safes I would put my guns in and not worry about is the Champion and the mid to higher end Amsecs (gardall makes gun safes but there only 4 models and way over price) and Ft Knox. Liberty is living off its name. They are on there 4th owner now and the safes are nothing like they used to be. Again just take off the door panel and look inside. If you want to see a really scary looking "safe" check out the inside of a Heritage safes door. Look really close to where the handle and the lock come togetter. And think about what would happen if a hammer where to hit the handle.
As for a safe weight on your floor. We don't like to put more then a 1000lbs empty on a 1st level floor. It depends on the size and the foot print of the safe. Also have to think about how much stuff you are going to put in it and what it will weigh.
Just remeber get what you want the 1st time around and get room to grow.
P.S. Sorry for the bad spelling
On the topic of electronic keypad vs. dial, after having a keypad go out on my safe, I would never buy one again. Being locked out for a week was no fun!
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We won't even stock E-locks on the safes we sell. Way to many problems with them. They account for about 1% of the locks we sell, but give us 99% of the problems.