safety deposit box and firearms.

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If it were possible for the bank to get into your box without you, through use of some master key, why, then, when search warrants are served, do the locks have to be drilled?


"If you loose one of the keys then when you surrender the box the bank drills the box because they cannot duplicate the key."

That's now how it was explained to me when I only turned back one key. I asked specifically about that. The lock is rekeyed and the company maintaining them makes new keys on the spot. It's not destroyed.
 
If you lose one key, they rekey it and charge you about $10. If you lose both keys, they have to drill it (expensive; maybe $100) Why would they drill it if they can just open it? But they cannot open it without one of your 2 keys.
 
Exactly, Armsmaster.

Hell, when I found that I couldn't find my other key for my one box, I gave serious consideration to making one. But, I said to hell with it and ate the $5 charge.

My box at the bank in the town where I grew up was in the old bank of boxs. They came from the original bank building and had been made in 1902 for the bank that was built in 1903.

When the bank burned in the 1960s the boxes were in the vault and were fine, and were moved to the new bank building.

The new boxes they added with the building of the latest building (1997) also use the simple flat key.
 
Let me just outline one more problem with using safe deposit boxes for guns.

1. 2011 - You decide to put a Bren 10, Sphinx AT2000, and a 1967 Korth Revolver in a Safe Deposit Box. You are 50 years old.

2. On your 80th Birthday, President Chelsea Clinton signs a bill requiring all semi-auto handguns be registered as NFA or turned in for destruction within 30 days. You don't think much about it - you're more concerned about getting that new hip from Government Health you've been waiting for over 10 years now that has become necrotic.

3. 2051 - You live to the ripe old age of 90 - dying from a chronic hip infection. You leave your son, Jeff, the key to your safe deposit box and name his your executor. Jeff goes into the bank, which merged with BOA and BOA was taken over by the government in 2021 making it BoUSA. Where it used to be optional for a bank to inventory all decedent safe deposit boxes, President Sasha Obama signed a bill requiring all government owned banks to review the contents of safe deposit boxes for illegal guns, gold, diamonds, platinum, palladium and other banned substances. Her zero-tolerance law requires ANYONE in possession of such items to pay a $1,000,000,000 fine and serve no less than 10 years in a MexAmerican prison.

By by guns. By by savings. By by Jeff.

The moral of the story is - if it's worth keeping, don't entrust it to a anyone for safe keeping other than self and kin.
 
I had a post last night, but I am guessing I forgot to send when I helped w/the kids because I doubt it was deleted. Anyways, thanx for the replies&knowledge. A warrant won't protect you. To the bank person, can someone put a firearm in the box or is that only if he keeps his mouth shut?
 
OK, I think at the point where we drop completely into "futurospeculation" it's a clear indication that the thread has passed its zenith and is flaming out rapidly.

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