Here’s the scenario: Your wife gives you a nudge at 2:00 AM, and tells you that she thinks someone’s in the house. No problem, Rambo, you have a huge gun safe loaded with tactical carbines and automatic pistols in your closet. All you have to do is stop crapping yourself, get out of bed, run to your closet, and spin your safe combination on the rotary dial. By the time you do all that, the invaders could bust into your room, tie you both up, loot your house and put a bullet in both of your heads.
Ok, I’m sorry, that was a little extreme, but it happens. Chances are, you won’t experience a home invasion, but there’s no guarantee. Under these circumstances, you need every second you can get to get your mind right, get armed, and protect your family. I don’t care if you have a Dillon Aero Minigun, if it’s locked behind a door that takes a minute to gain access to, it’s useless! You know I’m going to tell you what you need, right?
What you need to adequately prepare yourself for trouble are biometric gun safes. Biometric gun safes, are safes protected by fingerprint scanning locks. The scanner reads your print pattern, runs it against an algorithm, and decides whether or not to let you in. Though they aren’t 100% accurate, they’re exceptionally close. If I need to eradicate a bump in the night, all I have to do is tell my wife to calm down, reach underneath my nightstand, swipe my finger, and grab my locked and loaded TP9…I can go from being a target to the Terminator in less than a second.
That’s no understatement. It only takes a second to swipe your finger over the biometric scanner and grab your firearm, and with a few practice runs, you can make it all happen with no-look entry. As implied, fingerprint gun safes are best served as small, personal safes. They’re perfect for storing pistols, extra ammunition, and small valuables next to your bed or on a closely accessible wall safe.
Biometric locks are also available on full size long gun safes, but for these, I much prefer an old fashioned rotary lock. “But you just told that story about the guy who got shot because he had a rotary lock”.
No, I told a story about a guy who didn’t have a quickly accessible gun next to his bed. Biometric gun safes are perfect for getting what you need quickly, while keeping children and lazy thieves out of your firearms. The reason I suggest sticking with a rotary lock or an electronic keypad on your large safes is because, though I mentioned that fingerprint readers are very accurate, they aren’t 100% accurate. Veteran burglars can find ways to fake these fingerprints, and though the chances are very slim that they’ll be successful, I still wouldn’t want to put my several thousand dollar gun collection on the table to find out.
I believe that about covers the basics. Biometric gun safes serve the perfect balance for getting to your firearms quickly, while providing a sound barrier between your gun and your kids.
