Fella's; (sic)
Hmmm, apparently Glock Doc knows something I don't, and I'm a retired professional locksmith. I've also got an electronic lock on my safe. And, (sic) I'm not worried about it, solar flares or EMP's not withstanding. (Ed.)(I’ll bet you meant to write ‘withstanding’ — Yes!) But, (sic) I'm just a rural guy out in the middle of nowhere. But, (sic) I did do a little research before I got my set-up, (sic) found out about Faraday cages & things like that.
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Wow, that reply is really very poorly written! (Looks like the government’s nefarious plans to, once and for all, ‘
dumb down’ America are finally coming to fruition!)
Look, '
Glock Doc' is definitely not a retired locksmith; but I do live out in the middle of nowhere; and you're, probably, right! I suspect that I do, indeed, know about a lot of things that you do not. (It’s just that I’m usually too polite to deliberately attempt to embarrass anyone — Usually.)
Unless, in addition to being a retired locksmith, you also hold several college degrees and a Master’s in something really cool and complicated in the same way that I do. Maybe, huh? (Which would, I admit, put the two of us on a more even academic footing; but, not to worry! This doesn't make you a bad person, OK. (Only someone with a loose mouth and an apparent penchant for starting dumb internet gun forum arguments!)
After doing a quick Google search, it looks like today’s gun safes are nowhere near as strong or pry resistant as the older safes of, say, 20 or 30 years ago. Back when I bought my gun safe it took a lot more effort to get into one than it does with many of today's mass produced '
economy line' gun safes.
When I got my safe I was told that, more than anything else, I needed to securely bolt it down in order to prevent the safe from being easily tipped over and, then, worked on with pry bars, wedges, and chisels while it was lying flat on its back.
I was also shown a video of two guys working on a supine safe; and, while I admit that I don't remember how long it took them to defeat the door’s locking mechanism, I do remember that they had to really work hard, and for an extended amount of time, before they finally managed to get inside of that heavier (older model) safe.
However this is, apparently, no longer true; and today’s ‘
big box store’ gun safes are much more easily breached than yesterday’s older, thicker, and heavier safes like the one I have.
THIS is an interesting video. It casts a spotlight on just how flimsy many of these new discount store gun safes actually are. (Which appears to be pretty darn flimsy!)
Another thing: Anyone who intends to mount his new electronically locked gun safe inside of a Faraday cage is, as far as I’m concerned, going just a little bit '
off the deep end'. I know a lot of people who own gun safes with electronic locks on them; but absolutely no one I know keeps his electronically locked safe inside of a Faraday cage — That’s just plain nutz; but, hey, it takes all kinds — Yes!