Thread: Firearm safe, what's the go

Originally Posted by Cigar

Those are guidelines, not regulations. At least until the next round of changes to the law that the police are proposing.
But I doubt that will solve the OPS brother in laws problem of not being approved even though it sounds like his security meets the criteria.

I'm wondering if the vetter was being clever and pre-empting what he thought was a near future cert?

And yes, they are guidelines but published by the police and posted on their website. If you meet or exceed their guidelines you should be good to go. Otherwise you could argue why have they hade the guidelines available.

Personally my security far exceeds the guidelines but one of my "safes" I would still only deem it a very strong cabinet. All the "safes" sold by the likes of Farmlands, Bunnings etc. are cabinets IMO.

My aim was never to just meet the vetter's requirements but to have a set up I was pretty happy with. My main safe would easily pass the battery powered disk grinder with fully charged battery and 2 disks std. A knife held to my wife would however open it in a flash.