I was just looking at safes last week,will ask alot more questions when I go back to purchase one.
Just make sure you know the qualifications of who you are asking. There are several retailers that sell gun safes. Just because they sell them doesn't mean they know squat, although they may sound knowledgeable.
It would be best to verify anything that a gun safe salesman says.
At least they didn't get the door open
I have that brand safe and it may not be a real safe but it was $500. and they didn't get the door open.
the only reason they didn't get the door open was,
wait for it
they were idiots, and besides, they could have cut the side and saved a bunch of time
That hole was large enough to drive a bus through. If that hole was placed elsewhere, or with a bit of additional knowlege, that safe would have been easily opened.
It is very common, even on true burglary rated safes, for the bodies to be weaker than the door. Even though this is almost always the case, the doors on safes are usually what the bad guy goes after. If you place the safe properly, the door can also be the only surface easily accessible. A well built door is a good starting point.
That's one of the reasons I dont like composite doors.
Real composite doors, and real composite safes usually offer more security than a solid plate safe. However, this is another situation where a gun safe manufacturer has borrowed a term from the real safe manufacturers, and use it in an entirely different way.
Composite safes (doors) in the world of real safes have thin outer skins, and a cavity that is "cement" filled. A sheet of steel wrapped around a piece of gypsum board is not composite.