Deanimator,
After I spent some serious change on my Liberty Presidential, I got the Sentry G4211 (14-gun safe) a bit later on because I came up with a better secure-storage plan for my needs.
The Liberty has my guns, camera, sterling silverware, laptop (when I leave town for a while, but the large LCD TV won't fit!), rifle scope, spotting scope, SOME ammo, important documents and such in it because besides being a serious safe, it is fire-rated for 2.5 hours and will protect those contents much longer than it will take the neighborhood fire station to get up here and put the fire out. If not, that's unfortunate but at least everything in my apartment is insured for full value, including the safes!
I got rid of most of my guns because I had WAY too many of them and too much different-caliber ammo, so now I just have a few specially-chosen ones. I also didn't want to FILL my Liberty safe with guns, but rather just put the few (now) I have in it and have the rest of the space available for said other valuable items, especially when I leave town for a few days. This works well for me.
As mentioned earlier, the Sentry (G4211, non-fire rated) is basically used just as a giant "lock-box," but it IS a safe, not to be confused with a thin sheet-metal "gun-locker" (but even a gun-locker mounted to the wall or recessed INTO the wall between the studs will be lots better than what most people do: Putting guns loose in a closet...thieves know this, too). A gun safe has thicker metal walls and door than a gun locker has (gun lockers are similar to those lockers we used when we were in school for example).
I got the Sentry 4211 because I USED to just have all my ammo stored in those surplus military 30 and 50 caliber ammo cans, stacked in a closet and I wanted a BETTER way to secure it (too easy for thieves to pick up small easy-to-move cans with handles on them!). With the Sentry, said ammo cans fit very nicely inside -- they stack together well, use available space inside the safe very efficiently -- and I can get a LOT of them in there.
NOW they are not available for someone to pick up and run with.
Of course, the more full ammo cans in the Sentry the heavier it gets (even if it wasn't bolted-down it'd be harder to move). I also have some scrap lead and bags of lead shot (used for bullet-casting and shotshell reloading) in there as well to add even more weight. And being bolted to my 1000-pound liberty, the two make a pretty solid mass to move...IF it will even fit through a door that is. Bolting safes together -- as one large monolith if you will -- makes them physically larger and therefore harder to get though doors/windows...another thing to consider.
My point is, the more expensive (I could afford it at the time) fire-rated Liberty is for my more valuable objects -- especially those needing fire-protection -- and the cheaper non-fire-rated (didn't have the $$ for a 2nd serious fire-rated safe at the time) Sentry 4211 is for ammo, an "ammo-locker" if you will.
Another plus: The Sentry 4211 did not come with shelves -- except for one at the very top -- so it worked well for storing ammo cans stacked up in it...I didn't need to take out/not use any shelves that came with is as I would have if I wanted to use other safes that DO have lots of shelves/dividers in them (like the Liberty). Very efficient.
The other "lock-box" Sentry I have (first safe I ever got), the small 1.3 cubic foot non-fire-rated $80 one from Office Depot, is not being used now -- since I have the other two -- but it's a bit too big for putting in my SUV (but in a motorhome it'd be fine except for not being fire-rated), so I will be getting another even smaller safe soon just for the car...one large enough to get a laptop and 1-2 handguns into it.
-- John D.
I appreciate all the info.