Posted: 3/10/2005 9:15:30 PM EDT
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I have only left my safe unsecured once for about an hour while at the neighbors. Yesterday I took a fridge magnet and stuck it on the safe door; I now flip the magnet to the white side to show the door has been accessed and flip it back to red when the door has been secured. I don't feel like I really need that but it sure can't hurt. Anyone else have any anti senility tricks?  M |
I assume you don't own NFA weapons. Plus, a safe is a good place to store all valuables in lew-of/in-addition-to a safe-deposit box. I'm sort of paranoid about it being locked (door and dial-lock). Always check it before I leave the house - it has gotten to be a habit. |
I'm really good about keeping my guns locked in their safes and cabinets. My problem is in remembering to lock the back door! During one of the worst snow storms of this past winter, I got up in the morning noticing that the furnace was runing like a maniac. I went downstairs and the first floor was as fridgid as a witch's tit. The back door was, of course, WIDE open. Yeah, I guess it was that way most of the night. BUT the guns were locked up! 
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Yes. The safes are in a vault room in the basement with rebar concrete walls on three sides. When we finished the basement, we built the room just for the guns and the safes, using the existing basement walls as a starting point. The wall that opens into the living area hallway was built up with 5/8" ply over the studs first, then the walls were finished inside and out normally. The door assembly is heavy gauge steel including the jamb with a big deadbolt. Any perp would have to break in through the garage area outer door, the inner door into the basement living area, get by my heavily armed son then spend some time breaking in, just to get to the locked safe...which can't be moved out of the room without destroying the room. Otherwise they would have to transit through the main floor living areas, past me. Impregnable? Not at all. Hard for an amateur or kid though. My insurance company likes it too. Whenever we close up, we always make sure to secure the safe, spin the tumbler and kill the lights. I guess working in military exclusion areas for over 35 years made me paranoid. The only thing I don't use is a sign-in sheet!  BTW...we also store the critical legal docs, wills, insurance papers and my post-death instructions (Just to make it easier for Miz LWilde and the kids) in the fireproof safe. |
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I have found that two safes works well for me. One long gun safe in a spare bedroom, which I am trying to get into the habit of always locking when I leave the room. A second "instant access" safe in the master bedroom where I keep my carry pistol. I keep this safe open at night and close it when I go off to work. I don't keep my scoped .22 in the long gun safe in case I ever have the opportunity to play "cap the cat". It takes too long to dial the combination to open that safe. |
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I've left the door open accidently a couple time now, but otherwise, YES, my safe is secure. Why wouldn't it be? My Cannon safe AUTOMATICALLY LOCKS - if the door is closed, the door is locked. Period. The locking pins are spring loaded and activate when the door closes |