Something occurred to me....

[Sheldon J]

On a different forum there was a discussion running about some guy N his gun safe with a electronic lock had gone west N he had to cut it open.... Which made me post a comment....

Many of you have a tactical plan, guns, food, water but....
Should there ever be a Nuclear event any of you with an electronic lock on your gun safe, within approximately 100 miles of such a event the resulting EMP would likely fry your lock foreaver... Do you have a plan B for getting at your gun's???

Now remember all electrical power will very likely be gone so no drills, saw's plasma cutters.....

Just something to consider....

 

[metallic]

A lot of safes with an electronic lock include a "trouble key" that can be used to unlock the safe as well. That would be my plan.

 

[Funderb]

a hammer and a lot of determination.
just ask a russian.

 

[Rockwell1]

Pry Bar?

I'm more interested in how we're going to unlock this thread after the mods nuke it.

 

[lasinvegas]

that was my justification to the wife to buy our safes with old fashion combo and key locks

 

[Duke of Doubt]

A sledgehammer taken to the drywall right next to the safe. Or a manual jack taken to the floorsafe, if it be a floorsafe, so as to tip it over so that I may more easily bash in the safe bottom with the aforementioned sledgehammer.

Safes suck.

 

[kyo]

the keyhole right next to the electronic buttons works pretty well. If not, I got tools.
I don't believe it is smart to have an only electronic key safe. If the safe is connected to a battery/AC and the power is cut off, you are screwed.

 

[Fred Fuller]

Sorry, but if there ever IS an EMP event, there will be a LOT to have to work around.

And we are NOT going to talk about how to break into safes on an open forum...

lpl