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? asked in SportsOutdoor RecreationHunting · 10 years ago

What safe should I get?

I recently moved from one rental location to another and now have a dilemma. I own a stack-on that I previously had in my closet bolted to the wall. Now I'm in a location where I can't bolt it to the wall AND the closet has a divider half-way up meaning about 50 inches below and above the divider. I cannot remove the divider as it is not my place. For now I have the stack-on leaned up against a wall and it works okay even though it's not exactly sturdy when I open the door and would tip forward if not for a wedge I placed beneath it. I'm looking to upgrade to a decent safe, but everything I read says that it needs to be bolted to the ground. As I'm a renter, is there a safe which I can have freestanding that won't tip over and doesn't need to be bolted to anything?

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  • 10 years ago
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    As you have discovered, all of the safes have doors that are much heavier than the bodies of the safe. Yes, the doors are so heavy that when you open them, they want to tip forward onto you.

    I remedied this issue by placing several bags of lead shot on the floors of my safes. It takes about 8 bags (25 pounds each). That also increases the weight of the safe by 200 pounds and would make it harder for thieves to carry it away.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    10 years ago

    I agree with nick on this one. I own 6 full sized gun safes and none of them are bolted to the floors. And I too line the bottoms with bags of lead shot. I feel that it's something that I can use for reloading in the future, so it sort of holds the value. And, it also increases the overall weight of the safe, making it much more difficult for would-be robbers to try to move.

    Another you can do as an apartment dweller is simply find ways of hiding your guns. Most burglars are going to spend as little time as possible when they rob an apartment. So, something like a false wall inside a closet, or an old console TV that no one wants these days, can make for good places to hide some smaller guns.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I agree with nick too.

    my safe is weighted down with bars of lead. I don't know how much it weighs now, but its hardly portable.

    my safe is a little stack-on pistol safe, the bottom 1.5 inches is just lead blocks. I gave my safe some rubber feet so a burglar can't try & slide it off the cabinet I have it on. the only way to move the safe is to pick it up, I purposely made it so that you have to stoop down to open the safe, you'r in such an awkward position you can't pick it up.

    Source(s): before i bought lead blocks I just filled the bottom two inches with ammo. that only made up about 55 lbs, which is why I installed the rubber feet. now with the lead blocks (I bought ingots at a industrial metal supply center and used a mini sledge to get them into perfect blocks) it probably weighs easy over 150 lbs. rubber feet or not, its not going anywhere.
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