People are poopooing RSC's because the gun safe industry is based on showboating and deceptive, inaccurate, or irrelevant claims. It would be fine if the industry was honest about the limitations and capabilities of their products. That gives you a real picture of any gaps in your security and how to augment a gun safe with other layers of protection. A serious security consultant will inform you of this. All I ask for is honest advertising so people don't buy into a false sense of security and know how to augment their home defenses.
A perfect example is how several manufacturers add stainless sheet metal as an option and advertise it as a torch-proof barrier. Notice gun safe companies don't advertise that they can withstand a basic cutting or grinding attack because only a couple could realistically stand up to a basic sawzall. Torches are right below explosives on the UL's "force continuum" of safe attacks. Power tools are the next step up from hand tools, not cutting torches and most people have the basic power tools in their garage that can open most gun safes in 5 minutes. Liberty Safe even let Dean Safe (a distributor) do a video series trashing their presidential line with four sticks of dynamite and a dozen feet of detcord simultaneously, suggesting it was a TXTL-30x6 or higher rated safe that coulz hang with $50,000+, 6000lb commercially insurable safes that can withstand explosives and thermic lance attack.
Most of the entire industry is built upon selling glossy sheet metal boxes. That's cool because it'll realistically stop a smash-and-grab thief. Most crooks won't even take time to break into locked desk or nightstand drawers. Just don't tell me how drywall will save my heirloom guns and important documents, photo albums and digital media and how a piece of stainless sheet will stop a torch attack while a sawzall will split it right open. If you have irreplaceable heirloom items, you're going to have to spend a bit more, or at the very least split the risk in half and double the time you buy with using two gun safes vs one. Not even used car salesmen will tell you a Geo Metro can outperform a Corvette.
