The BFX and BFII are the high water mark for gun safes. To exceed the burglary resistance and fire protection you need to move into TL class safes which are a quantum leap in those protection area's but present a new set of challenges concerning moving and placement of the safe.
More thoughts on the subject:
1.) Have you really thought through and made a security assesment to determine what that translates to for physical security for you and your family?
2.) Don't get your husband a gun safe as a surprise. Instead get him involved in the decision.
3.) Find a dealer that only sells, moves, and services safes. Especially when you get into the heavier RSC's and TL rated safes. If the dealer isn't equipped to move a safe they're selling or can't/doesn't move the product they sell, find a different dealer (there's a few exceptions to this).
4.). Any gun safe, RSC or a real safe, has to have a UL listing. So does the lock. many of the discount store safes don't satisfy this. In fact to get a compliant UL listing requires a UL listed lock.
5.) Most fire ratings are simulations not a real test (read the fine print in a Ft. Knox catalog). Amesec is the only manufacture I'm aware of that offers independently tested RSC's.
6.) No gun safe carries a UL listed fire rating. And very few Real Safes carry both a UL rating for Fire and Burglary, usually its one or the other.
7.). AMSEC if the only company in the gun safe market that is a manufacture of real safes (ok, maybe Graffunder does too).
More thoughts on the subject:
1.) Have you really thought through and made a security assesment to determine what that translates to for physical security for you and your family?
2.) Don't get your husband a gun safe as a surprise. Instead get him involved in the decision.
3.) Find a dealer that only sells, moves, and services safes. Especially when you get into the heavier RSC's and TL rated safes. If the dealer isn't equipped to move a safe they're selling or can't/doesn't move the product they sell, find a different dealer (there's a few exceptions to this).
4.). Any gun safe, RSC or a real safe, has to have a UL listing. So does the lock. many of the discount store safes don't satisfy this. In fact to get a compliant UL listing requires a UL listed lock.
5.) Most fire ratings are simulations not a real test (read the fine print in a Ft. Knox catalog). Amesec is the only manufacture I'm aware of that offers independently tested RSC's.
6.) No gun safe carries a UL listed fire rating. And very few Real Safes carry both a UL rating for Fire and Burglary, usually its one or the other.
7.). AMSEC if the only company in the gun safe market that is a manufacture of real safes (ok, maybe Graffunder does too).
