I have the V-Line slimline version with the simplex mechanical lock. Mounted in a nightstand drawer.
It's ok. Some comments:
My overwhelming motive was to prevent young children access to these guns (2), while having them reasonably accessable.
It works satisfactorily for this purpose - if locked (see below) a child will not be able to get into it.
There is no method or type of gun that is safe enough, when children are around, to have a handgun in unsecured storage. If a gun cannot be secured where a child cannot get his hands on it, then the risk is not worth the reward and the gun should not be in the home.
I did not want electronic / powered lock.
Simplex lock works well, very easy and fairly quiet to unlock in no light situations.
It's small, but you can put at least one fairly large auto (Smith 59) and one small revolver (Smith 37) in it. Plus one extra mag. But it takes some fussing to make it all fit around the lock.
Opening the box means, if you have it in a nightstand drawer, that you must open the drawer far enough to uncover the box PLUS add room for the cover when it swings up - about an additional 2". Smaller nightstands will not accomodate this.
It helps to secure the box inside the drawer so it can't slip about.
This box DOES NOT relock automatically on closing, you must relock it manually. This is a very quick process, but still is a design a flaw in my view. It should re-lock itself.
The lock extends downward into the interior of the box so much that you cannot store a normal revolver (e.g. K-frame Smith) or hi-cap auto (in my case a Smith 59) in the lower left 1/4section of the box.
As I said, it's ok.
It is wildly overpriced, ~$125, for what you get. It would be high priced at half that. However, I saw nothing comparable that met my needs, and my desire to secure the guns from kids overrode the rip-off price.
It is NOT a theft deterrent but that was not my reason for using it. Very thin gauge steel.
