Safes

When you need your gun at 2 am, which small, quick-access safe will you want at your side? Is all this exciting fast-access technology reliable?

Hornady released several new products this year at SHOT. The first of these that goes on the must-have list is the Rapid Safe AR Gunlocker.

In a perfect world we all have enough secure storage for all of our guns, and not only do our homes offer us ample space for giant safes, those safes also magically appear with no conspicuous delivery and team of installers. For the real world, there is the bolt together, take apart Snap Safe. It still arrives by truck freight, but the box does not resemble a safe, and you can take the pieces in one by one, inconspicuously, up the stairs, whatever, without advertising your safe to the neighborhood.

If you already own a safe, almost everything I describe in this article can be done for free; but there’s no free lunch, and every choice has its pros and cons. You will have to weigh your options when deciding the placement of your safe and how to anchor it.

This is the second of three articles in this Father’s Day Gift Guide series. Each article has a maximum price ($125.00 or less, $75.00 or less and $25.00 or less). Have a Happy Father’s Day!

I’m going to tell you some of what I do, but I’m not going to tell you everything because you need to choose what is right for you and your family. And storing guns when you have children in the house is much different than storing guns when you don’t.