Guns stolen from a gun safe? Ever happen?

[Mitch Rapp]

Just curious about something, I finally got a nice gun safe last year, as opposed to the sheet metal gun lockers, and wondered if anyone has had their house broken into, with guns in a safe. Wondering if they tried to break into the safe, left the safe alone, or what. Figured someone on here has had it happen, or knows of people who had it happen to them.

 

[Old Fart]

Don't know anyone, but a quick google found online lessons on how to do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBhOjWHbD6M

About halfway thru video.

 

[aviator41]

Safes are not to keep people from stealing your stuff. they are to make it so damn HARD to steal your stuff, it's not worth their time.

 

[Old Fart]

Safes are not to keep people from stealing your stuff. they are to make it so damn HARD to steal your stuff, it's not worth their time.

Pretty much spot on.

 

[uncle money bags]

Safes are not to keep people from stealing your stuff. they are to make it so damn HARD to steal your stuff, it's not worth their time.

Pretty much spot on.

which is why safe placement and how it is secured to the substrate is every bit as important as the safe itself.

 

[Perplexed]

I'd guess a safe would compel burglars to bypass it and concentrate on the more easily removed items. According to the DoJ statistics from 1994, 2001, and 2011, TV's, DVD players, jewelry, clothes, and furs were the most often stolen items during a house burglary, accounting for some 55-60% of the stolen property. Purses, wallets, cash, and credit cards accounted for 15-16%; firearms accounted for only 3-4%. Of the firearms stolen, more than 80% were handguns, and of those, only 1 in 5 were recovered.

 

[Mitch Rapp]

Safes are not to keep people from stealing your stuff. they are to make it so damn HARD to steal your stuff, it's not worth their time.

This is kinda my assumption and part of what prompted the thought. Figured someone may have had a house ransacked, but the safe was ignored.

 

[nemesis]

which is why safe placement and how it is secured to the substrate is every bit as important as the safe itself.

As important as all the above is keeping your collection as much a secret as possible. My friend sells gun safes. He estimates that gun thefts occur 97% of the time by people who are friends of or somehow acquainted with the gun owner.

I've done research on the subject. I remember one instance where the owner had a gun safe bolted to the floor, etc, and the thieves were able to knock holes in the walls, wrap a heavy chain around the safe, and used a heavy duty SUV to pull the safe, wall, etc, into the front yard. Then they got the safe into the truck and left.

I've seen pictures of safes that had been broken into. One was where the thieves used a circular saw and masonry blades and cut through the side. The hole they cut was big enough to get most of the collection out.

I've also seen safes where the doors were opened simply using crowbars.

The best safe is the one nobody knows about. Ditto gun collections.

 

[_CY_]

Just curious about something, I finally got a nice gun safe last year, as opposed to the sheet metal gun lockers, and wondered if anyone has had their house broken into, with guns in a safe. Wondering if they tried to break into the safe, left the safe alone, or what. Figured someone on here has had it happen, or knows of people who had it happen to them.

YES ...

 

[Old Fart]

Figured someone may have had a house ransacked, but the safe was ignored.

I suspect this happens more often than not.

"Oh a gun safe."
"Let's break into it."
"Damn that looks hard."
"Let's find something else to steal."
"Okay."