gun safe?

[islandgun]

Old boggy questioned the weight of my gun in the sleek thread which prompted me to get out the scales, however Ive put one of the safe keys in a safe place which i've now forgotten. HELP ! ........no i dont mean come round and help me look for it, more is there another way of gaining access

Edited February 14, 2023 by islandgun

[Windswept]

21 minutes ago, islandgun said:

... is there another way of gaining access

Do you keep a spare set in another safe? Do you remember reading something about secure places before hiding your keys? When I've lost my spare set I've just left it for a few days and suddenly remembered where I put them.

If it's a branded safe you could try calling the manufacturers.

[islandgun]

11 minutes ago, Windswept said:

Do you keep a spare set in another safe? Do you remember reading something about secure places before hiding your keys? When I've lost my spare set I've just left it for a few days and suddenly remembered where I put them.

If it's a branded safe you could try calling the manufacturers.

Thanks very much, Just found them, they were in safe place number 3😄

[Dave at kelton]

Done the same but can’t remember safe place no 1 even. Fortunately have another set in another safe place……somewhere😂

[London Best]

It once cost me £150 for a locksmith (about 1997/8) because I couldn’t remember my safe place after 20 years.

[RCB56]

And they let us all have guns.🤣🤣🤣🤣

[TIGHTCHOKE]

2 hours ago, RCB56 said:

And they let us all have guns.🤣🤣🤣🤣

But apparently many can't remember where their keys are so no threat really!   

[London Best]

I can’t remember what I had for breakfast!

 

 

Have I had my breakfast?

[Scully]

I used to keep all my cabinet keys in separate places, but lost some, so then stashed them in my ammo safe, which was ( still is ) my old handgun cabinet, but then forgot where I’d stashed the keys for that! 
A local locksmith did the deed for me and changed the lock and issued me with new keys. 
I don’t keep any keys in it now but found my old keys ( which now don’t fit anything ) and leave them hanging up as a time waster for anyone who first gets past the door locks and then the dogs. 🙂

[Poor Shot]

Is the use of a code locked key safe (the kind home nurses use to access elderly peoples homes) permitted for the storage of safe keys?

I have a spare key safe left over from when we bought the house and I'm quite tempted to install next to the cabinet and store the keys in there. I honestly believe that the actual gun safe would be easier to break in to than the key safe.

Of course, you'd then have to remember the code but it beats remembering 3 or 4 seperate safe places.

[Stonepark]

7 minutes ago, Poor Shot said:

Is the use of a code locked key safe (the kind home nurses use to access elderly peoples homes) permitted for the storage of safe keys?

I have a spare key safe left over from when we bought the house and I'm quite tempted to install next to the cabinet and store the keys in there. I honestly believe that the actual gun safe would be easier to break in to than the key safe.

Of course, you'd then have to remember the code but it beats remembering 3 or 4 seperate safe places.

Stored elsewhere (i.e. not next to safe) they may be good idea, but keys for safes are normally larger than domestic door keys and often won't fit especially if you have 2 safe keys and an ammo compartment key joined together.

Edited February 14, 2023 by Stonepark

[Poor Shot]

1 hour ago, Stonepark said:

Stored elsewhere (i.e. not next to safe) they may be good idea, but keys for safes are normally larger than domestic door keys and often won't fit especially if you have 2 safe keys and an ammo compartment key joined together.

What you sent via PM will be the better bet.

I should be having the FEO around in the not too distant future (hopefully) for an FAC grant interview so i'll ask them about the key safe at the same time.

[London Best]

10 hours ago, Stonepark said:

Stored elsewhere (i.e. not next to safe) they may be good idea, but keys for safes are normally larger than domestic door keys and often won't fit especially if you have 2 safe keys and an ammo compartment key joined together.

Beat me to it!

I have six cabinet keys to store and tried a key safe but it was far too small.

[HantsRob]

Do what the farmers do and just leave your keys on top of the cabinet

- Viz top tip from Farmer Giles

[Jaymo]

A previous FEO was very happy that mine were in a key safe. 

[JohnfromUK]

3 hours ago, London Best said:

Beat me to it!

I have six cabinet keys to store and tried a key safe but it was far too small.

You can get (2nd hand ex Gov't) keysafes that will take a quantity of full size keys and secured by a Chubb Manifoil (Gov't approved) combination lock ......... but they are relatively expensive.

[Poor Shot]

38 minutes ago, Jaymo said:

A previous FEO was very happy that mine were in a key safe. 

Is that installed close to the cabinets or remote/ in another room.

Ideally it would be installed next to the cabinets on the same solid wall using the same, approved fixing methods.

As said, the keysafe being manufactured from two solid billets of metal would a lot harder to crack than the actual gun safes themselves. Even if you got the keysafe off the wall you'd still need to get Into it. A cordless angle grinder would be Into both gun safes and the contents removed before you had even noticed the keysafe.

It's a bit of an eggs in one basket approach so I can see why an FEO would be hesitant to approve them.

[Jaymo]

Was in a different part of the house where the ammo cabinets were. 
I was also located within a lockable, but flimsy in my opinion, workbench. 
 

It’s all change since moving.