Gun Safe advice

Greywolf, get the biggest safe that you can afford. A few more things may have to go inside sometime.
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+1 (at least) on that. We camp regularly for five days at a time in the summer and my wife's jewelry goes in there and, always, important papers such as the deed to our house, marriage certificate, wills, and financial papers reside in there without crowding the important stuff like guns.

I bought an American Security large safe some 10 years ago and paid $1500.00 plus another $200 for delivery. It sits on concrete in a fairly small storage room on our lower level and would require removing several doors to steal it even if the thieves could work up the muscle to do so. It has some thirty or so rifles and at least that many handguns for added weight that wasn't there on delivery.

They don't wear out and, amortizing the cost over a lifetime, it's cheap insurance.

You'll be surprised the number of things you will want to put in there when you get the safe. GO BIG.

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Get the largest you can afford. You will find a way to fill it up.

By the way, if you keep your tax records in your safe, it's a deductible expense.

I originally bought my safe to keep my tax records secure and it worked great and I took a deduction for it.
I was later very pleased to discover that my long guns and handguns would fit into the safe as well. Imagine that.

Just a thought. . . . . . . . .
 
By the way, if you keep your tax records in your safe, it's a deductible expense.
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Um, I have been out of the public accounting game for several years now, but I am not to sure about that one. That may be a bit of a stretch.
 
I'd be interested in the deductibility! Any ideas how to do this?

Update - I bought the AMSEC 6030 safe with regular mechanical lockset.

THANK GOD I bought it locally and had it delivered and installed. Cost $250, but well worth it. This sucker is almost 900 pounds, required two guys to get it in, took about 2.5 hours. It was a very tight fit with lots of turns but it got done much to my satisfaction, and they bolted it down very nicely.

Still have lots of room even after all my rifles, pistols, spare mags, optics and some ammo have been put in there.

Very happy with this monster, and I don't think I will have to worry about going away for a week now.
 
one other thing to keep in mind, INSURANCE !! i notified my agent we had a safe to keep "valuables" and "collectables" in and our fire insurance droped $50 a year !! not that big a deal but nice to know.
 
RE:lectronic lock

I don't have electronic locks on my gun safe but do have them on my 3 narcotic safes at my pharmacy. They're over 3 years old, haven't needed a battery change yet & have been trouble free,plus they're quick to get into.
 
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