Different Types Of Gun Safes – The Ultimate Guide

Owning a gun safe is a crucial step in being a responsible gun owner. There are different types of gun safes available and choosing the right one can be tricky.

A gun comes with a lot of attached liabilities. Neglecting your gun might get you in so much trouble with the law.

A gun licensed to you equals your fingerprints. So much can happen, and before you realize it you are being convicted.

Anyway, your peace of mind lies in purchasing a gun safe. Well, there are a variety of gun safes.

This article provides you with various types of gun safes that you should consider. They all give different but sufficient levels of gun security.

You can use gun safes to protect other valuable like documents, jewelry and others from being stolen. Let us have a look at the different types of gun safes available.

Biometric Gun Safe

A biometric gun safe gives excellent security to your firearm and couples it with quick access. Some people are skeptical that a biometric gun safe limits the number of users, which I wrong. The fingerprint sensor can store multiple fingerprints.

Some biometric sensors can accommodate up to 40 fingerprints. Biometric gun safes also offer for secondary access through a key.

The key serves as an excellent backup for instance of the battery goes dead.

Battery going dead without knowledge would be tragic in case of an emergency. Always check for battery life to avoid a nasty surprise.

There are a variety of the biometric gun safes and you will have to choose one that gives you the full package of advantages.

Advantages

• Allows for quick access
• Fingerprints limits the accessibility of the gun safe to registered users only
• Does not require memorizing a combination
• Biometric safes are more tamper resistant
• Easy to use

Fireproof And Waterproof Gun Safe

Fire and water are adversaries to the tip-top condition of your gun. If your gun safe is not water and fireproof, you run the risk of damaging the gun upon exposure to these two conditions.

Why a gun safe that is both water and fireproof? Well, you never know which adversary will strike fast. They also might strike at the same time.

Normally a fire may lead to a water system failure. Also, the firemen will be using water.

A fireproof gun safe will ensure that in case of a fire you gun remains safe. A word of caution, you should not store your ammo together with the gun and think that it is safe.

Ammo will explode at extreme temperatures, and cause a buildup of smoke and chemicals that will damage the gun.

Advantages

• Keeps more than your gun safe, documents and other valuables too
• Keeps the gun in good condition n floods and fire

 

Combination Safe

Combination safe takes two forms. We have pattern combinations and numeric combinations. In pattern combinations, you press keypads sequentially to form a pattern of your own. Numeric combination is simply a number that you key sequentially.

It depends on the individual, as for me I prefer the pattern combination. Practicing each of the types of combination will help a lot in an emergency.  You should make it a habit to load the combination at least daily.

With practice, you will not go blank and forget the combination. The combination safe offers an almost limitless number of combinations, which make it hard for unauthorized persons to crack the combination.

Advantages

Multiple combination options make it difficult for a thieve to crack the combination

• Combinations are easy to use
• Can fit multiple places

 

In-Wall Gun Safe

Gun safes built into the wall are an excellent way to hide away your firearm from crooked eyes. A good interior designer will do an excellent job in finishing the safe to match the décor of the house.

The in-wall gun safes offer excellent storage space. The offset of the wall from the floor essentially makes these safes waterproof. Depending on how well it is fit into the wall this safe can be pry proof.

These safes give you the flexibility to choose the locking mechanism of your choice. Just explore the options and choose one that will work for you.

Advantages

• Waterproof
• Well fit in-wall gun safes are pry proof
• Matching the safe finish with the interior décor will give anyone with bad intend a hard time identifying it
• Flexibility in choice of locking mechanisms

 

Hidden Gun Safe

Accessibility is a key factor when choosing the type of gun safe to invest your money. Hidden gun safes are meant to give you multiple options on storage locations. These locations vary from the couch, the bed, car seat and much more.

I love the flexibility and the accessibility that hidden gun safes provide. They allow you to store your gun in places that are hard to figure out for anyone else but yourself.

These saves allow for tactical gun storage. You can seek for the gun with your adversary thinking you are out to make them some coffee. Okay, I have to admit that that is a scene from a movie but it can happen.

Advantages

• Offers for tactical gun storage
• Provides for easy access
• Fools the intruder

 

Depository And Drop Safe

Depository and drop safe allow anyone to load the safe while allowing for only selective access to the safe. These safes are ideal for storing a range of valuables. They are suitable both for home and business use.

For home use, owners can sue these safe to securely store documents that include title deeds, credit cards, and cash. Businesses use these safes to store cash often. The drop could, or could not be portable, which depends on the user.

Different designs of the depository and drop safe vary in locking mechanisms and type of loading. Different designs fit different organizations. It will be your task to find the design that works for your personal needs.

Advantages

• Indiscriminative loading but selective access
• Quality construction
• Applicable to both homes and businesses
• Multiple designs

 

Car Gun Safe

Carrying a gun is a precaution especially for drivers who ferry precious commodities and always run the risk of a hijack. That does not mean that you should recklessly stick your gun anyhow in the car. In some states, it is a requirement by law to keep your firearms safely secure.

For proper carrying of your gun in the car, you need a car gun safe. Just like other safes, they vary in design and functionality. Your selection will depend on the level of risk.

Sometimes all you require is safe to hide the gun away from the public eye while getting into institutions that forbid guns.

Advantages

• For use in or out of the car
• Excellent interior cushioning
• Pry-resistant

 

Under Bed Gun Safe

Why under the bed? Well, these safes are suitable for larger guns, and large gun safes are hard to conceal. You get options to stack them away in a wardrobe, but that will not be convenient enough.

When under the bed, these safes make for quick access. As for kids, they will not be in a position to access the contents as they are usually very heavy and pry proof.

I would be lying telling to you there is one unique design for the safe. There are multiple designs. Some require a battery while others do not. Due to the heavy weight, some manufacturers incorporate wheels on others.

Advantages

• Give excellent capacity that can accommodate a riffle
• Some have incredible versatility with the capability to roll allowing for easy movement to the car and back
• Allows for quick access immediately you detect the intruder (you do not have to get out of your bedroom)

 

Heavy Duty Gun Safe

You can easily make a fortress of firearms using a heavy duty gun safe. Manufacturers of heavy duty gun safes use premium materials to make the safes. So you will probably be coughing more money for it.

For example, you will get one from 12 gauge steel. Such a safe will be indestructible and also considerably heavy. That will mean that you probably will not wish to resort to a heavy duty gun safe that you will be moving around.

While thieves could get the idea of getting away with both the gun and the safe and figure out how to open it later, they cannot manage to do the same for a heavy duty safe. Their excellent capacity is also a big plus.

Advantages

• High capacity
• Indestructible (owing to the heavy duty premium materials)

 

Diversion Safes

Like the name suggests these safes divert the attention of a thieve, which make them an excellent way to store your valuables. They can take the shape of absolutely anything in your house books, cup, brush, electrical outlet, and much more.

You can get an easy access diversion safe that camouflage to other things in the house. Manufacturers also offer for keypad access diversion gun safes that can imitate wall clocks. These not only divert the attention of burglars but als0 that of your kids.

Getting a diversion safe means that you can now hide away your gun and other valuables in plain sight. Nobody would think that you would hide away anything in plain sight. They will probably go looking under the bed.

Advantages

• Camouflage to the surrounding
• Divert attention of both kids and thieves
• Offer for security and quick access too

 

Drawer Safe

A drawer safe design is one that fits a drawer hence the name drawer safe. That is not to mean that the drawer serves as the locking mechanism. The safe has its own locking mechanism that could include the keypads or biometric locking mechanism.

They will help you in keeping your gun safe as well as other valuables such as change. Their size limits them to storing pistols and other small items. The interior dimensions are important and should offer a proper fit for whatever you want to store I the safe.

These safe could require using a battery for the biometrics. You should ensure that the safe is of steel construction, which offers the best security and durability. Thick walls and hidden hinges make for a pry proof drawer safe. So look for these qualities.

Advantages

• Compact design
• Steel construction offer for excellent security
• Pry proof
• Incredible interiors

 

Quick Access Gun Safe

Quick access gun safes give you almost instant access to your gun. Instant access comes with the knowledge that you have, at all times what it takes to open up the safe. That rules out a set of keys, which you can easily misplace.

The best quick access gun safes include programmable features that facilitate for quick access. Programmability allows for loading fingerprints and patterns. I would say that biometric safes offer for the quickest access.

Quick access is not the only thing to look out for in a quick access gun safe. So, do not concentrate too much on quick access and forget strong construction. A weak construction will equally give a burglar quick access.

Advantages

• Easy to use
• They are programmable
• Allow for registration of many users

 

Floor Safe

A floor safe is one of the many ways of concealing your safe. The other is the wall safe. While a floor safe might not offer for the quickest of access, they offer a good deal of security. This is because they are well concealed.

Properly installed floor safes present zero chances of prying, and even identifying their location will be a nightmare for the burglars. Trying to break into a floor safe is the most time-consuming thing that the thieves will have to do for the night, and honestly, they do not have all that time.

I would prefer storing cash, passports and other valuables in the floor safes. Some people find these save excellent for guns too. I would store only guns that I do not need in an emergency. Retrieving a gun in case of an emergency will involve moving furniture and is not always as convenient.

Advantages

• Concealed (hard to locate)
• They are hard to pry, or even lift out of the floor
• Breaking in the safe would take a thieve too much time

 

Gun Cabinet

A short gun will require a bigger safe. A gun cabinet is an excellent choice for a bigger safe. A shotgun will fit perfectly in a gun cabinet. By the way, the law requires that all shotgun owners should have a gun cabinet.

The best gun cabinets come with an excellent locking mechanism and also mounting options. Gun cabinets without appropriate mounting options are at risk of being stolen together with their contents.

Quality cabinets from quality materials do not always require a mount. They usually pack a lot of pounds for anyone to manage to move them with ease. They also come with different locking options. Soft interior moldings protect the weapon from damage.

Advantages

• Allow for both wall and floor fitting
• Ave good capacity
• They are pry resistant
• Soft interior avoid weapon damage

 

Nightstand Gun Safe

A nightstand gun safe helps you with concealing your gun close to where you sleep. These gun safes come with options to mount to multiple surfaces. It could be the wall or the bed. They usually also come in compact sizes as large safes are not as easy to hide.

The safe should essentially match the décor of the surface you will be mounting them on. In the case that the nightstand gun safe requires a battery, there will always be an override key.

The choice of your nightstand gun safe will be dictated by the size of your gun, and how much you want to store in the safe. Also, look for features such as foam molding that protect your weapon from damage through shock.

Advantages

• Different sizes give for different capacity
• Easy to access I the dark
• Comes with an override key if necessary

 

College Dorm Safe

Our colleges being a hotbed for elite minds would presumably also a place where we have civilized minds. On the contrary, we also have elite thieves in our colleges making for the need of college dorm safes.

The best way to be safe in a dorm is to invest in a dorm safe that is pry proof. The safe should also ideally tag to the dorm furniture to prevent anyone from stealing it to figure out later how to open it up.

These safes are roomy so you can stack almost all your valuables. It also has compartments that allow for proper organization of your properties. The inside has rubber or foam linings to protect scratching the contents. These safes differ in style and functionality.

Advantages

• Easy to use, secure to furniture, or bolt down
• Replaceable batteries
• Enable for excellent organization
• Rubber lining prevents scratching your contents

 

Laptop Safe

For students especially, their laptops are one of the most expensive valuables. With us depending on our laptops to study and at times earn some extra bucks online, losing a laptop is tragic. It has the capability to mess up your whole semester, or even an academic year.

With the right laptop safe, you will minimize the chances of ever getting to lose your laptop. In college you will need to attend to other stuff and carrying your laptop wherever you go is tedious.

These safes are durable and high quality you do not have to worry about anyone tampering with it. Excellent built and secure cables give you a worry-free time to attend to other important things. These safes also comply with halls of residence regulations.

Advantages

• Comply with halls of residence regulations
• Convenient and easy to use
• Rugged designs
• Rubber grippers to prevent movement
• Cushioning on the top and bottom of the safe

 

Document Safe

For your most important you will need a document safe, a fireproof document safe for that matter. A fireproof document safe saves you a lifetime of memories and other important documents in case of a fire.

A document safe will see to it that you do not lose the land as you lose your house, you will recover the title deed safe and sound from the document safe. For added security, you will have to look deep into the safes for one that is burglar proof.

Not all fireproof safes are burglar proof. So, if theft is your worry consider a burglar-proof safe. It would not hurt to have one that is both fire and burglar proof.

Advantages

• Fireproof
• Burglar proof
• Convenient opening and locking mechanisms

Horizontal Gun Safe

A horizontal gun safe better fits under the bed. These safes will offer for non-obtrusive storage of your rifles and storage guns. You will not often find a compact horizontal gun safe. They usually have good capacity to house the guns together with the ammo and a couple more things.

Choose wisely to ensure that you horizontal gun safe is durable and reliable. It is only a reliable gun safe that will keep the kids and other intruders from accessing the contents. The safe should have a pry proof construction.

A fast opening mechanism is also important for these gun safes. You can choose from simple mechanical locking systems to complex biometric locking system. While doing your selection, do not forget the primary objectives, which are security and fast access.

Advantages

• Offer fast access
• Well-built for reliable rifles and shotgun storage
• Excellent capacity

Pistol Gun Safe

Pistol guns offer protection for many homeowners. They are also the most common type of guns all over the USA. Their popularity does not make it okay though to be reckless with them. Pistol safes are compact well-built boxes that offer for excellent storage of your pistol gun.

Their compact size makes them very easy to hide away in multiple places, including under the car seat. Foam padding on the bottom and shelves prevents scuffing. These gun safes are good for both permanent and short-term gun storage.

Having a pistol specific design, the pistol gun safe offers superior pistol storage. You will get a piece of mind when you invest in a safe with a reliable locking mechanism.

Advantages

• Pistol gun specific design
• Padding on the bottom and shelves prevent scuffing
• Predrilled holes facilitate for mounting
• Offer for superior pistol gun storage

Final Verdict

I hope that you have already made your mind on the type of gun safe that will suit you. I believe that the different types of gun safes cover a wide price range and the price will not be one of your worries. They also cover the entire spectra of gun types, from the smallest to the largest. They offer sufficient capacity for the designed gun type.

Also, apart from gun safes, there is also a range of other types of safes. The objective of this site is to familiarize you with the different types of safes that will help you with keeping your valuables safe. Your documents are equally as important as your gun. These documents might be the reason that you purchased a gun in the first place. All of these safes are reliable, you just have to find the quality ones.