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Overall Rating

Perfect for anyone looking to keep guns away from small kids.
Tommyboy’s review is way too harsh.

Let’s start with purpose. This safe is well-built and will keep most small children from finding harm. It’s a great compromise for guys like me who want to leave a ready handgun accessible to a wife at home, but don’t want their kids stumbling across it. If a curious child were to find the safe, guessing is nearly impossible, as it will go into a timed “lockout” mode if the password is entered wrong too many times in a row. The safe is made out of a respectable weight of steel and feels very solid, as far as steel safes go. If you have small kids at home, it’s absolutely ideal.

Now, if you are the parent of a teenager who listens to a lot of goth and emo bands and spends a lot of time sitting around pulling the wings off of flies, stopping only to burn his or her arms with lit cigarettes, be mindful that any determined adolescent or adult could probably make short work of this safe with a pry bar or Dremel tool. The thing is steel. It’s very well made for steel…and I dare say about as good as it gets for this type of lock box. But it’s still “just” steel. So get your kid some Jesus, or find a better safe.

In short, consider your audience before you buy.

As far as features go, the locking mechanism feels solid to me. The door has rounded corners and is flush with the body of the safe, so there’s little chance that anyone could pull it open (without some sort of lever) to defeat the lock. The battery terminals on the front of the unit are a nice way to circumvent a dead battery, also. It has a programmable password, which is nice. Finally, this unit includes some of that rubbery mat material. Know the stuff you put in your kitchen sink to keep your mats from slipping? Yea that stuff. So even though it is a steel box with limited space for padding, the included rubber mat is more than sufficient to keep your gun’s finish from getting scuffed or scratched if this box is stationary.

The only thing I would maybe change on this safe would be to add a backlight to the keypad. This just in: it’s hard to see in the dark. And instead of simply numbering the pad 1-2-3-4-5, they labeled it H-O-M-A-K, making it more difficult to mentally recall and “touch out” the key assignments. It can obviously be done, but if a person’s life is in danger, this creates an unwelcome challenge. Poor brand placement there.

All in all, this is a great steel safe. And if you sport sufficient gray matter to recognize steel’s inherent limitations prior to purchase, you will not be disappointed.