


Residential Security Containers (RSCs) - With a typically high set of features offered at a low price point, RSC safes present an attractive choice to safe buyers.

Safes that didn't make the cut - These are safes that simply cannot be recommended due to serious design flaws. This way the user can see quickly how a safe ranks by category, and then more specifically against it's category competitors. The overall objective was to first classify safes in to three broad categories and then further compare those safes to other similar safes within the same category. We then compared those specifics to determine categories and rankings for each individual safe. The final and most important step in process was to put our 30+ years of safe building expertise to use in analyzing each safes construction.

From this mass of largely superfluous data, we then extracted only the info that addresees the core considerations an educated safe buyer would care about. Whatever you do, don’t be in a rush, do your research, there a a lot of great safe companies out there, weeding out the bad ones and the overpriced ones takes time.In order to compare one safe to another, we started by tracking down the published specifications for each safe. I personally went with Steelwater’s 39 gun safe w/ 9 gauge steel and 2 hour fire protection. Of course the type of locking mechanism will play a big role as well. If you can get 10 gauge steel (the smaller the gauge number the thicker the steel) or less that’s ultimately going to be what assists in keeping bad people out. Third, It’s ALL ABOUT THE STEEL! 12 gauge seems to be what most of the big box stores carry. Second, who has the best warranty and customer service? Safes are a huge investment and you’ll want a company that stands behind their products. First if you plan on buying more guns/rifles in the future, ALWAYS get the bigger safe. From every single gun safe review I’ve watched and forum read, there are common themes. That’s a great question, there are a lot of factors involved.
