Firearm Safety
Gun safety advocates would perhaps do well to adapt the United States Forest Service's slogan "only you can prevent wildfires" to the cause of unintentional firearm deaths. After all, firearm safety literally rests in the hands of each and every gun owner. Unfortunately, all too many gun owners fail to properly handle and/or secure their weapons, leading to hundreds of fatalities each year, more than half of them children and teens.
Preventing these tragic accidents doesn't require new information or complicated actions, only adherence to a few fundamental rules of gun safety. Our guide to firearm safety rules reiterates these fundamentals, and also addresses the role that gun safes and cabinets play in restricting access to guns and reducing gun accidents.
Gun Safe Buying Guide
Buying a gun safe involves the careful consideration of many different factors, including size, features, brand, and price. A little specialized knowledge is also useful when considering such details as the degree of fire-resistance a safe provides and the pros and cons of the various safe locking systems. Fortunately, specialized knowledge is one of the things we can offer at GunCabinetsandSafes.com. To help you choose the right gun safe for your needs, we've put together this Gun Safe Buying Guide.
Gun Safe Lock Systems
Part of the pleasure of watching heist movies is seeing the clever ways in which crews get past the most elaborate locks and security systems. But when it comes to our own guns and valuables, we want to write a movie script that features frustrated crooks and impenetrable safes. So which gun safe lock systems can provide that Hollywood ending? The answer is in this article, which explores the ins and outs of biometric, fingerprint, electronic, and combination gun safes.
Gun Safe Fire Ratings
According to the National Fire Protection Association, 399,000 homes had structure fires in 2007. That's one fire every 79 seconds. These residential fires were responsible for $7.4 billion in direct damage. Fire damage is a very real threat for gun owners, and that's why buying a fire resistant gun safe is such a wise investment. But without a single established rating standard, how does one know which fire-resistant gun safe is best? Our guide to gun safe fire ratings explains the numbers.
Safe Gun Storage Tips
Every right comes with responsibilities. As gun owners, our responsibilities include the dedicated practice of firearm safety and the protection of children and innocents through safe gun storage. Guns are valuable pieces of private property; thus safe storage also means protecting your weapons from corrosion. The following gun storage tips are intended to raise your awareness of the need for gun storage and help you to take proper care of your stored weapons.
