Thread: Gun Safe Rules - Advice

Originally Posted by dogmatix

As you have gathered, security requirements vary, they shouldn't though. It seems at the whim of different AOs, when really the Police make sh*t up as to 'their policy'.

As Jexla said, over engineer your security for piece of mind. Don't make it easy for the theiving bastards to steal your property.
My over engineered 10mm 40kg plus underfloor plate was a right prick to install at my old house in the crawl space. The bolts were welded in, so I had to jack it up straight up into the safe. Took me ages and could barely walk after. But it wasn't going to shift. The vettor didn't even bother to check it when I described it and showed photos of the install.

When we moved, it was just as a pain to remove. Whitetail spider bites and all (fell down my shirt).

We did something similar at a mates place, but him being smart and lazy made him think about how to, a bit too much first. He basicly did exactly as you have but he added a threaded hole (M10) in the centre as well. He then got a length of M10 rod and dropped it in through the locker and wound the base plate up with a drill on the end of the thread passing though the plate. Once everything was in place and fitted he removed the rod. One thing he did do differently was to make each of the bolts from underneath a slightly different length. That way as it came up he could line them up one at a time rather than all four at once.