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Safes - How childproof is yours?
By:Ventura
A safe is essential if you have a gun at home. It is also essential that your safe is easy for you to use but difficult to acces without your authorization.
Safes are made from tough, heavy guage steel, typically half an inch thick. The safe may have two sheets of hard steel, with ballbearings sandwiched between the two layers. The ballbearings make drilling through the door or sides very difficult.
The door and lock are inherently the weakest points of any safe. Locking the safe door should operate hardened steel or titanium bolts on all four sides. Hinges are internal so that they do not present a weakness to an intruder.
Locks may be key, combination or fingerprint operated. The best safes have combinations of different types of lock and time delays before a lock will open.
Key locks can be picked, even the most complex key operated lock can be picked by an expert. An expert can find a combination code on a rotary combination dials fairly easily. A keypad combination is the best if you have a combination lock. There are no moving parts to go wrong, or to give clues to a safe cracker who is listening to the lock as he or she operates it.
It is important to keep the keypad clean. Dirty or clean keys give clues to anyone trying to get into your safe. Make sure the combination you choose bears no relationship to phone numbers, birthdates or any other data that can be guessed.
The best option is a fingerprint operated lock. Then you can have absolute confidence that while your fingers are attached to your body that nobody will be able to open your safe without your knowledge.
A fingerprint operated lock combined with a keypad combination lock, or a second fingerprint operated lock set up for a second person provides the best security for guns or valuables.
Fire protection is usually built into home safes, with layers of insulating material and expanding door seals that exclude oxygen and prevent combustion of the safe contents.
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Ventura is a professional writer who writes about a wide range of topics. You can find more information and resources on safes at http://www.safes-today.info. You can find more of Ventura' s work at http://perfecthexagrams.com
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