just found out im going to be a dad anyone have any good safe recommendations i got about 20 guns

[greg vess]

I bought mine at Adventure Outdoors in the evening deliver. You have to catch them on sale though I got a $1,400 sale safe that was on sale for a 1000 to 1100 hundred. I can't remember the exact price. It is an extremely nice safe and has a temperature rating of 400° for an hour. It takes three people and a dolly to move that thing around. It weighs as much as a sub compact car and I mean it is heavy! A 20-gun safe will fit 20 single shot shotguns. You're going to need to get a 30 or 35 gun safe to make sure you have plenty of room. Once you start stacking guns with Scopes and accessories it takes up room quick. The brand I got was a Wallace which is made by Wallace safe and lock company. I would stay away from Winchester and all the big brand name safes because you're paying a lot for the name. There are some gorgeous safes out there and you can pay a ton of money for them. Expect to spend about 1500 for a decent safe with a decent fire rating and temperature rating. If you shop around and find them on sale you should be able to find one for that. Mine's is 24 gun safe and I paid right at between $1000 to $1100 on sale. Again I can't remember exactly.

 

[ReelWizard]

My advice? Sell the guns down to raise ca$h, you’re going to need it.
Spending another couple grand to store 20 rifles and 13 handguns + a couple grand more for a safe?
Nah..sell it down to 1-2 rifles 1-2 handguns and start banking cash.
Hope all goes well with pregnancy and delivery and healthy newborn.but things can go south $$ quickly, Be prepared,even healthy kids are expensive.
Start a college fund, save for surprises.

And
Congratulations

 

[BHPSteel]

Just a few 'physics' observations and why I opted for an RSC (as I noted in post #15)

If you have a fire at your home, temperatures within the structure rapidly exceed 1,000 F., and if there's a structural collapse around the safe, with direct contact and low airflow to dissipate heat (but enough to feed the fire) - 1,500F can be reached very quickly.

It's vital to NOT have ammunition and/or reloading supplies inside that safe, unless it's rated as a media safe (a Class 125 safe) - these are expensive and more importantly, SMALL. Most fire safes for guns are Class 350s - they're rated to keep the contents below 350F for the rated time. This is low enough to protect any firearms' finish and operability from damage, but doesn't protect wood, polymer, gaskets/seals etc. from damage - and there's a non-zero risk of an ammo cook-off at that temperature, which could damage weapons.

Anecdotes are not data, but I had a friend who was comforting himself that his significant investment in guns was protected by a safe he'd recently bought. Turned out he did a number of things wrong (I'll list below) but when they finally dug out his collection from the ashes, over half of his collection was beyond economic repair. Many of the other items were functional, but had lost a lot of value to collectors.

What did he do wrong?

* Big safe in room above the basement on a wooden floor.
* Combustibles in the basement about 12ft across from where the safe had been located.
* Wood paneled room probably didn't help
* Some of his 'less collectable' guns in the safe were loaded and had full mags
* No sprinkler system (while not common in residential properties, they work)
* It fell into the basement which mean that while the house fire was burning out, it was surrounded in hot ashes, like a hog roast.

This isn't to say that a fire-rated safe is useless - far from it - but where and how you locate it has a huge effect on whether it makes any difference if your house burns down. In my case, my collection exceeds the price of a good safe, but I elected to go the lightweight route and use an RSC with good security. Put it in a place nobody would go looking for it, made sure that the surfaces were hard to apply an angle grinder to, in a location with minimal combustibles in the vicinity.

The money I saved I put towards a load of ammo.

Edit: PSA - if you have ammo that is exposed to over 200F, SAAMI considers that ammo to be compromised and may not be safe to use.

 

[GAgunLAWbooklet]

Why is it that when a gun owner's going to become a parent they want to buy a "gun safe" to lock up all the guns?
Even if it's a lot of guns?
Wouldn't a kid safe be smaller?
😁

 

[Psilloh1]

My advice? Sell the guns down to raise ca$h, you’re going to need it.
Spending another couple grand to store 20 rifles and 13 handguns + a couple grand more for a safe?
Nah..sell it down to 1-2 rifles 1-2 handguns and start banking cash.
Hope all goes well with pregnancy and delivery and healthy newborn.but things can go south $$ quickly, Be prepared,even healthy kids are expensive.
Start a college fund, save for surprises.

And
Congratulations

No Doubt.... There is an even stronger chance they could become a liberal...

 

[Nuke And Juke]

Priorities...

The minute you hold your child in your hands, there will be a rush of emotions summarized as priorities. I would sell everything but 4 or 5 must haves. Anything you can sell and buy later is exactly that

Put all your money and the money from the safe into 5 Stocks...

1. Amazon
2. Microsoft
3. Google
4. Tesla
5. NVDA

When your kid graduates from college, you can take all that and hopefully buy him a house.

Truth!!!

 

[4ssss]

My neighbor has this one for sale.

 

[aFarewellToKings]

Why is it that when a gun owner's going to become a parent they want to buy a "gun safe" to lock up all the guns?
Even if it's a lot of guns?
Wouldn't a kid safe be smaller?
😁

Thus, the common advice: "Make your home child safe."