Re: Buying a gun safe: tax credits or insurance discounts?

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:02:32 +0000 (UTC), stans4@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

#Buy a gun safe for security and a fire safe for your papers. Reason
#is that the fire resistance is due to gypsum(like walboard) in the
#safe walls. It has a lot of water bound up in it. So what happens is
#that when it gets hot, the water comes out as steam. This preserves
#the readability of documents, they won't be unscorched but will be
#readable. What it does to guns is give them a steam bath, instant
#rust! So if they're recoverable, they probably won't be usable.

If this is true, why do most of the reputable gun safe manufacturers
use fire proofing? Do the better ones use ceramic blankets or
firebrick rather than cheap sheetrock?

I'm not looking for fire proof - I just want a measure of resistance
to a typical house fire. A bare steel box will soak up heat like crazy
and really needs sometihing to slow down the process.

Or maybe I should just plumb in a couple of fire sprinkler heads over
the safe as recommended elsewhere (with the safe mounted off the
basement floor on a concrete pad) and forget the thermal protection.
Unforunately a collapsing house will soon shear off the supply lines
to any limited-area sprinkler system. I can't afford to install one in
the entire structure (4500 sq ft). It sure seems like the safe should
have _some_ built-in fire proofing.

John Davies
Spokane WA


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