{"title":"Biometric Safes","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"deluxe-biometric-safe-box-digital-fingerprint-fireproof-waterproof-safe-with-touch-screen-removable-shelf-and-3-spoke-handle-home-safes-for-cash-documents-jewelry-2-12-cubic-feet-white","title":"RPNB Fireproof Safe - 2.12 cu ft Interior - with Touchscreen, Biometric Lock and Two Adjustable Shelves, Color: White","description":"\u003cp\u003eRPFS66W - 25.98”H × 16.93”W × 13.78”D - 94.14lbs \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe opening note\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaper is the first thing a fire takes and the last thing anyone thinks to move. The deed, the will, the passports, the certificate that proves when you were married and the ones that prove when your children arrived — none of it is precious the way a ring is precious, and all of it is the sort of thing that takes eleven months and a lawyer to put back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a tall, narrow cabinet built for exactly that: the flat paper record of a life, filed standing up rather than stacked in a drawer, behind a door with fire board in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt stands a little over two feet high and takes less than a foot and a half of wall, which is why it tends to end up in a closet or beside a desk rather than in a basement — and being where you actually work is most of what makes a safe get used.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat it holds\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoom for the deed lying flat with its corners clear, a run of ring binders standing upright on the shelf above, and the letters someone wrote you that you have never quite been able to throw away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInterior:\u003c\/strong\u003e 24.21”H × 15.35”W × 9.84”D. Interior volume, calculated: 2.12 cu ft. Two adjustable shelves — sixteen height positions. Inner locking box: none. Interior finish: full felt lining — floor, walls and the inner face of the door. No interior light. Door organizer: none.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExterior \u0026amp; siting:\u003c\/strong\u003e 25.98”H × 16.93”W × 13.78”D — handle not included. Anchoring: pre-drilled floor mounting. One expansion bolt supplied. Clearance: allow 15” of depth. The three-spoke handle stands 1.2” proud of the door face. Hinge side not stated by the manufacturer. Wheels: none.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e94.14 lbs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecurity:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lock: biometric fingerprint reader, 500 DPI, stores up to 20 prints. Backlit touchscreen keypad, 4–6 digit code. Override: two backup keys. Locking bolts: three solid steel bolts, 0.79” diameter. Door assembly thickness: not stated by the manufacturer. RPNB publishes the fire board at 16mm — approximately 0.63” — but gives no steel gauge for the door or the body. Alarm: vibration-triggered audible alert. Silent mode available.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFire, water \u0026amp; media:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fire rating: 30 minutes at 1200°F, described by RPNB against the UL 72 standard. Certifying body: none — factory tested. Media\/data rating: not a media safe. Water rating: none claimed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe rest:\u003c\/strong\u003e Power: one 9V alkaline battery, not included. Warranty: not stated by the manufacturer. Manufacturer part number: RPFS66 (black) · RPFS66W (white). Finish: powder-coated steel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat this is not:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt is not a waterproof safe.\u003c\/strong\u003e You will find this model listed elsewhere as fireproof \u003cem\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e waterproof. RPNB’s own specification for it claims no water resistance of any kind — no depth, no duration, no seal described. Waterproofing belongs to other safes in their range, and the claim appears to have wandered across from one of them somewhere in the resale chain. We would rather correct it here than let you find out during the sprinkler run that follows the fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt is not UL Listed.\u003c\/strong\u003e RPNB describes the fire performance “against the UL 72 standard,” and the safe was tested by the factory rather than by UL. A UL or ETL Listing means an independent laboratory ran the test and the specific model number appears in that laboratory’s public database. “Tested to UL standards” means the maker ran the test themselves and told you the result. It may well be an honest result — but nobody outside RPNB has checked it, and if an insurer ever asks, a database entry is the only answer that counts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt is not a two-hour fire safe.\u003c\/strong\u003e Thirty minutes at 1200°F is a real and useful claim, and it is at the modest end of the category. For comparison, UL’s own furnace is already running near 1,700°F by the one-hour mark. Fire protection is mostly weight, and there is less of it here than in a safe that claims two hours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt is not a media safe.\u003c\/strong\u003e That standard asks for an interior held below 125°F, which is a far harder promise than keeping paper below its ignition point. Drives, film, tape and anything else with a magnetic or optical memory belong in a different cabinet. Paper is what this is for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt is not heavy enough to stand on its own.\u003c\/strong\u003e At 94 lbs a fire safe of this height is a two-person lift, and two people are exactly what a burglary is likely to have. Unbolted, this is a cupboard that can be walked out of the house. RPNB drills the floor for you and supplies an expansion bolt. Use it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThirty minutes, and what thirty minutes is for\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe number sounds small. It is worth understanding what it is actually measuring, because the instinct — that longer is simply better — is only half right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA fire safe is not a thermos. It does not hold heat out; it spends itself absorbing heat, and the rating is a measure of how long it can go on spending. What is doing the spending here is the 16mm of fire board built into the walls and the door: a gypsum composite carrying water bound into its own crystal structure. Under fire the board gives that water up as steam, and the steam takes the energy with it as it goes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThirty minutes is roughly the window in which a house fire in an occupied neighborhood is found, called in, and reached. That is the honest way to size the number: not against a catalogue of bigger numbers, but against how long it would take somebody to arrive where you actually live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne consequence worth knowing before you buy: a safe that has been through a fire has spent its board and should not be trusted again, whatever it looks like from the outside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe shape of it, and why it is shallow\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the width the safe loses a little over an inch and a half to its walls. But from front to back it loses almost four inches — 13.78” on the outside becomes 9.84” within. Nearly all of that goes into the door, where the lock body, bolt-work and thickest run of fire board have to live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat that leaves you is a cabinet with an unusual proportion: tall, reasonably wide, and shallow. US letter documents lie flat with room to spare. A legal folder lies flat too, though only just. Ring binders stand upright on a shelf the way they would in an office. A 14” laptop lies flat. The two shelves adjust across sixteen positions, which is more useful than the number suggests — in a shallow safe the only way to gain capacity is upward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn the maker\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRPNB build biometric safes almost exclusively — quick-access handgun cabinets, long-gun lockers, and a small range of fire-rated home safes of which this is the largest. Fingerprint access is the thing they have chosen to be good at, and the reader here is a proper 500 DPI sensor with a twenty-print memory rather than the token scanner that gets bolted onto a keypad safe as an afterthought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe carry it for a straightforward reason: it is the most document capacity we can offer at this price with any fire rating attached at all, in a footprint that fits beside a desk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe will also give them credit for something that cost us a correction above. RPNB’s own specification sheet makes no waterproof claim for this model, publishes the real bolt count rather than an inflated one, and quotes an interior volume of 2.12 cu ft that is exactly what the interior dimensions produce when you do the arithmetic yourself. The maker was the honest party here, and the trade was not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eQuestions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs it waterproof?\u003c\/strong\u003e No, and we would ask you to ignore any listing that says otherwise. RPNB claims no water resistance for it. If water is part of what you are protecting against — a basement, a sprinkler system, a floor below a bathroom — tell us, and we will point you at something sealed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat does “UL 72 standard” actually mean here?\u003c\/strong\u003e It means RPNB tested the safe against the shape of that standard in their own factory, and reported the result: thirty minutes at 1200°F. It does not mean UL tested it, and this model does not appear in UL’s listing database.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWill my documents be safe in a fire?\u003c\/strong\u003e Paper, for about half an hour at that temperature. Anything with a memory in it — a hard drive, an SSD, film, a USB stick — no. Those need an interior held below 125°F, and this is not built with that promise.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RPNB","offers":[{"title":"2.12 Cubic Feet","offer_id":46009665454159,"sku":"a564933d-3410-4339-ab05-73bc8a1d0b2d","price":530.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0717\/9377\/0575\/files\/ChatGPT_Image_Aug_6_2026_at_12_29_06_PM.png?v=1786044717"},{"product_id":"biometric-fingerprint-fireproof-safe-box-digital-fire-proof-safe-with-3-spoke-handle-touch-screen-and-removable-shelf-fireproof-home-safes-for-money-documents-jewelry-and-more-2-12-cubic-feet","title":"RPNB Fireproof Safe - 2.12 cu ft Interior - with Touchscreen, Biometric Lock and Two Adjustable Shelves, Color: Black","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #434343;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eRPFS66 - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #434343;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003e25.98\"H × 16.93\"W × 13.78\"D - 94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003ePaper is the first thing a fire takes and the last thing anyone thinks to move. The deed, the will, the passports, the certificate that proves when you were married and the ones that prove when your children arrived — none of it is precious the way a ring is precious, and all of it is the sort of thing that takes eleven months and a lawyer to put back.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eThis is a tall, narrow cabinet built for exactly that: the flat paper record of a life, filed standing up rather than stacked in a drawer, behind a door with fire board in it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eIt stands a little over two feet high and takes less than a foot and a half of wall, which is why it tends to end up in a closet or beside a desk rather than in a basement — and being where you actually work is most of what makes a safe get used.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 24px; margin-bottom: 8px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eWhat it holds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eRoom for the deed lying flat with its corners clear, a run of ring binders standing upright on the shelf above, and the letters someone wrote you that you have never quite been able to throw away.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 24px; margin-bottom: 8px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eInterior\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003e 24.21\"H × 15.35\"W × 9.84\"D Interior volume, calculated: 2.12 cu ft Two adjustable shelves — sixteen height positions Inner locking box: none Interior finish: full felt lining — floor, walls and the inner face of the door. No interior light. Door organizer: none\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eExterior \u0026amp; siting\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003e 25.98\"H × 16.93\"W × 13.78\"D — handle not included 94.14 lbs Anchoring: pre-drilled floor mounting. One expansion bolt supplied. Clearance: allow 15\" of depth. The three-spoke handle stands 1.2\" proud of the door face. Hinge side not stated by the manufacturer. Wheels: none.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eSecurity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003e Lock: biometric fingerprint reader, 500 DPI, stores up to 20 prints. Backlit touchscreen keypad, 4–6 digit code. Override: two backup keys. Locking bolts: three solid steel bolts, 0.79\" diameter. Door assembly thickness: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eNot stated by the manufacturer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003e RPNB publishes the fire board at 16mm — approximately 0.63\" — but gives no steel gauge for the door or the body. Wall thickness: 16mm fire board, approximately 0.63\". Steel gauge not stated by the manufacturer. Hinges: not stated by the manufacturer. Alarm: vibration-triggered audible alert. Silent mode available.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eFire, water \u0026amp; media\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003e Fire rating: 30 minutes at 1200°F, described by RPNB against the UL 72 standard. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eCertifying body: none — factory tested.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003e That distinction matters, and we take it up below. Media \/ data rating: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eNot a media safe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003e Water rating: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eNone claimed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eThe rest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003e Power: one 9V alkaline battery, not included. Warranty: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eNot stated by the manufacturer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003e Manufacturer part number: RPFS66 (black) · RPFS66W (white) Finish: powder-coated steel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 24px; margin-bottom: 8px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eWhat this is not\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eIt is not a waterproof safe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003e You will find this model listed elsewhere as fireproof \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003e waterproof. RPNB's own specification for it claims no water resistance of any kind — no depth, no duration, no seal described. Waterproofing belongs to other safes in their range, and the claim appears to have wandered across from one of them somewhere in the resale chain. We would rather correct it here than let you find out during the sprinkler run that follows the fire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eIt is not UL Listed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003e RPNB describes the fire performance \"against the UL 72 standard,\" and the safe was tested by the factory rather than by UL. Those are two different things, and the wording is easy to read past. A UL or ETL Listing means an independent laboratory ran the test and the specific model number appears in that laboratory's public database. \"Tested to UL standards\" means the maker ran the test themselves and told you the result. It may well be an honest result — but nobody outside RPNB has checked it, and if an insurer ever asks, a database entry is the only answer that counts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eIt is not a two-hour fire safe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003e Thirty minutes at 1200°F is a real and useful claim, and it is at the modest end of the category. For comparison, UL's own furnace is already running near 1,700°F by the one-hour mark. This is a shorter, cooler exposure than the longer-rated cabinets are asked to survive, and the 94 lbs tells the same story — fire protection is mostly weight, and there is less of it here than in a safe that claims two hours.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eIt is not a media safe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003e That standard asks for an interior held below 125°F, which is a far harder promise than keeping paper below its ignition point. Drives, film, tape and anything else with a magnetic or optical memory belong in a different cabinet. Paper is what this is for.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eIt is not heavy enough to stand on its own.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003e At 94 lbs a fire safe of this height is a two-person lift, and two people are exactly what a burglary is likely to have. Unbolted, this is a cupboard that can be walked out of the house and opened somewhere with more time and fewer neighbors. RPNB drills the floor for you and supplies an expansion bolt. Use it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 24px; margin-bottom: 8px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eThirty minutes, and what thirty minutes is for\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eThe number sounds small. It is worth understanding what it is actually measuring, because the instinct — that longer is simply better — is only half right.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eA fire safe is not a thermos. It does not hold heat out; it spends itself absorbing heat, and the rating is a measure of how long it can go on spending. What is doing the spending here is the 16mm of fire board built into the walls and the door: a gypsum composite carrying water bound into its own crystal structure. Under fire the board gives that water up as steam, and the steam takes the energy with it as it goes. The interior stays survivable for paper for as long as there is water left to give.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eThirty minutes is roughly the window in which a house fire in an occupied neighborhood is found, called in, and reached. It is not the window in which a fire is fought to the end, and it is not the window for an unoccupied house or a rural address. That is the honest way to size the number: not against a catalogue of bigger numbers, but against how long it would take somebody to arrive where you actually live.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eOne consequence worth knowing before you buy. A safe that has been through a fire has spent its board and should not be trusted again, whatever it looks like from the outside. The same is true of the far more expensive ones.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 24px; margin-bottom: 8px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eThe shape of it, and why it is shallow\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eLook at the two sets of dimensions together and something odd appears. Across the width the safe loses a little over an inch and a half to its walls, and across the height a little under. But from front to back it loses almost four inches — 13.78\" on the outside becomes 9.84\" within.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eNearly all of that goes into the door. The door is where the lock body, the bolt-work and the thickest run of fire board have to live, and it is where an attack goes, because it is the only part of a steel box with a seam in it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eWhat that leaves you is a cabinet with an unusual proportion: tall, reasonably wide, and shallow. It is a poor shape for bulky objects and an excellent one for flat ones. US letter documents lie flat with room to spare. A legal folder — fifteen inches by nine and a half — lies flat too, though only just; check the corners as you file it. Ring binders stand upright on a shelf the way they would in an office. A 14\" laptop lies flat. A large camera body will go in, but it will waste the shelf it sits on.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eThe two shelves adjust across sixteen positions, which is more useful here than the number suggests. In a shallow safe the only way to gain capacity is upward, and being able to set a shelf an inch lower is the difference between a binder standing up and a binder lying on its face.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 24px; margin-bottom: 8px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eOn the maker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eRPNB build biometric safes almost exclusively — quick-access handgun cabinets, long-gun lockers, and a small range of fire-rated home safes of which this is the largest. Fingerprint access is the thing they have chosen to be good at, and the reader here is a proper 500 DPI sensor with a twenty-print memory rather than the token scanner that gets bolted onto a keypad safe as an afterthought.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eWe carry it for a straightforward reason: it is the most document capacity we can offer at this price with any fire rating attached at all, in a footprint that fits beside a desk.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eWe will also give them credit for something that cost us a correction above. RPNB's own specification sheet makes no waterproof claim for this model, publishes the real bolt count rather than an inflated one, and quotes an interior volume of 2.12 cu ft that is exactly what the interior dimensions produce when you do the arithmetic yourself. Several sellers of this same safe have improved on all three. The maker was the honest party here, and the trade was not.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 24px; margin-bottom: 8px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eQuestions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eIs it waterproof?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003e No, and we would ask you to ignore any listing that says otherwise, including some for this exact model number. RPNB claims no water resistance for it. If water is part of what you are protecting against — a basement, a sprinkler system, a floor below a bathroom — tell us, and we will point you at something sealed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eWhat does \"UL 72 standard\" actually mean here?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003e It means RPNB tested the safe against the shape of that standard in their own factory, and reported the result: thirty minutes at 1200°F. It does not mean UL tested it, and this model does not appear in UL's listing database. We think it is a fair claim fairly described, and you are entitled to know the difference before you rely on it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eWill my documents be safe in a fire?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003e Paper, for about half an hour at that temperature. Anything with a memory in it — a hard drive, an SSD, film, a USB stick — no. Those need an interior held below 125°F, and this is not built to that promise.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eHow many people can use it?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003e Up to twenty fingerprints, plus the keypad code and two keys. Our standing advice: enroll each person twice, on two different fingers. A cut or a bandaged thumb is precisely the week you will need the safe to open.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eWhat happens if the battery dies?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003e Use one of the two override keys. The safe takes a single 9V alkaline, which is not supplied — buy two with the safe and keep the spare somewhere other than inside it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eWill a legal folder fit flat?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003e Yes, with about a third of an inch to spare on the long edge. It is a genuine fit rather than a comfortable one, so file it square. Letter-size papers have room to move.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 1.38;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eDo I have to bolt it down?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003e We would not sell it to you without saying yes. Ninety-four pounds is a two-person carry, and the whole point of the fire board is that it protects things in place. The floor holes are pre-drilled and an expansion bolt is in the box.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RPNB","offers":[{"title":"2.12 Cubic Feet-Black","offer_id":46009665978447,"sku":"fbe3e281-d89d-49ae-8763-3f0775e77386","price":530.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0717\/9377\/0575\/files\/ChatGPTImageAug6_2026at11_38_51AM.png?v=1786041571"},{"product_id":"extra-large-safe-for-home-17-6-cu-ft-235-lb-heavy-duty-steel-spacious-interior-storage-for-jewelry-documents-collections-family-valuables-with-adjustable-shelves-lock-box","title":"Tigerking Full-Height Safe — 12 cu ft Interior, 235 Lb Heavy Duty Steel, Color: Black | Spacious Interior Storage \u0026 Lock Box","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThere comes a size at which a safe stops being something you own and becomes something the house has. You do not move it again. You do not reconsider where it went. It stands where it was put, five feet of steel in a closet or a corner of an office, and the decision it represents gets made once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is the largest safe we carry. Two hundred and thirty-five pounds, sixty-two inches tall, seven one-inch live bolts, and twelve cubic feet inside across three adjustable shelves — which is not a container so much as a small strong room with a door on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA note on the number.\u003c\/strong\u003e This safe is sold as 17.6 cubic feet — that is its \u003cem\u003eexterior\u003c\/em\u003e, the space it occupies in your room. Most of this trade quotes the interior, and so do we: 12.05 cubic feet, 48 inches tall, 23.2 wide, 18.7 deep. That is the figure to measure your belongings against.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSeven 1\" live locking bolts\u003c\/strong\u003e, drill-resistant door, hidden anti-pry hinges\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e13-gauge steel construction\u003c\/strong\u003e — about 2.3mm, and consistent with both the safe's weight and the wall thickness its dimensions imply\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReinforced door assembly\u003c\/strong\u003e — the \"3 inches\" quoted for this door is the whole assembly front to back: the steel face, the boltwork behind it and the backing plate. Not three inches of solid plate; nothing that size could weigh what this safe weighs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e235 lbs\u003c\/strong\u003e — this is not carried anywhere, and it bolts to the wall through two pre-drilled holes (expansion anchors included)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTouchscreen digital lock\u003c\/strong\u003e, 1–12 digit code — set four digits for speed or twelve for depth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTwo ways in:\u003c\/strong\u003e code alone, or master key plus code\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEmergency key and external battery backup\u003c\/strong\u003e, so a dead battery never locks you out of your own safe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e60-second alarm\u003c\/strong\u003e after three wrong codes; the warning system stays armed afterward\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterior:\u003c\/strong\u003e 48\"H × 23.2\"W × 18.7\"D — 12.05 cubic feet of usable space\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eExterior:\u003c\/strong\u003e 62.2\"H × 23.6\"W × 22\"D — the 17.6 cu ft this safe is sold under\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThree adjustable shelves\u003c\/strong\u003e, all fully removable\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInner locking box\u003c\/strong\u003e — a separately keyed compartment, for the few things that want a second door between them and the world\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLeather-lined interior\u003c\/strong\u003e, LED light, one door basket, six door hooks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFour removable wheels\u003c\/strong\u003e — for getting it into position, then off again for good\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne year of manufacturer service support\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat this safe is not.\u003c\/strong\u003e It carries no fire rating, and we won't imply one. TIGERKING builds fire-rated models in a separate series; this is not one of them. It is built to defeat hands and tools, and it does that honestly. If fire is the loss you are actually guarding against — paper, or drives, or film — then a rated fire or media safe is the right instrument, and we will gladly tell you which one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch2 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eGetting it into the house\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eNobody tells you this part, so we will.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSixty-two inches tall, twenty-three and a half wide, twenty-two deep, and two hundred and thirty-five pounds. It goes through a standard interior doorway upright with room to spare — a normal door is eighty inches by thirty. What it does not do is go up a staircase in the hands of two optimistic people. If it is going anywhere but the ground floor, arrange proper help before it arrives, not on the day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe four wheels are for the last twenty feet, across a level floor. Take them off once it is where it belongs; a safe on castors is a safe that can be rolled somewhere quieter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOn the floor itself: 235 pounds spread across two square feet is less load than a full bathtub or an upright piano, and any sound residential floor carries it without complaint. Worth knowing, since it is the first thing people worry about and almost never the thing that matters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch2 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWhat the weight buys you\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA safe is one of the few things you can judge by picking it up, which is to say by failing to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThin-walled safes exist in great number, and they are not all dishonest — they will stop a curious houseguest and a child, and sometimes that is the whole of the job. What they will not stop is someone who came prepared, because a light safe does not have to be opened at the scene. It can simply be taken somewhere quieter, and opened at leisure with better tools than they could carry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAt 235 pounds, that possibility closes. This is not a safe anyone removes without a vehicle, a crew and an unhurried afternoon — and the seven live bolts, an inch across, turning into the frame behind hidden hinges, mean the alternative of opening it where it stands is not much better a proposition. Bolted through the back into a wall stud, both options are gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch2 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe inside, thought through\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMost safes are a steel box with a shelf in it. This one has been considered a little further.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eForty-eight inches of interior height across three adjustable, fully removable shelves means you are not choosing between documents lying flat and something tall standing up — there is room for both, and a shelf left over. There is an inner locking box, a safe within the safe, for whatever you would rather not have visible even to someone standing at the open door. The walls are lined in soft leather, which sounds like a flourish until you have set a watch down on bare steel. An LED light comes on when you open it, because a safe is usually opened in a closet, and closets are dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOn the back of the door: six hooks and a basket, for keys, chains, envelopes, the small things that otherwise slide to the bottom and stay there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch2 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOn the maker\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWe didn't design this safe; TIGERKING did, and we think they did it well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWe carry it because at this weight and price the specification is unusually straight — seven real bolts rather than four, hidden hinges, a published steel gauge, an alarm that means something, a battery backup that keeps a dead cell from becoming a locksmith's bill. Every purchase comes with a year of the manufacturer's service support, and if you would rather talk to us than to them, you can. We would prefer it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA safe is bought once and lived with for twenty years. That is a long time to be quietly pleased, or quietly annoyed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch2 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eQuestions\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs it difficult to install?\u003c\/strong\u003e The bolting is straightforward — two holes are already drilled through the back, two expansion anchors come in the box. Find a stud or a masonry wall, mark, drill, bolt. Getting the safe to the spot is the real job at this size; see above.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCan it be opened with a key?\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes, and in more than one way. You can set it to open on the code alone, or to require the master key \u003cem\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e the code, which is the stricter arrangement. An emergency key is included for the day the touchscreen fails or the batteries die — as is an external battery backup, so that day may never come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs it heavy enough that it can't simply be taken?\u003c\/strong\u003e At 235 pounds, taking it is a job requiring a vehicle and a crew, not a burglary. Bolted to a wall, it stops being a question anyone asks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCan the shelves come out?\u003c\/strong\u003e All three, and they adjust in between. With forty-eight inches of height to work with you can run flat storage on two levels and leave a full standing bay beneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow long can the code be?\u003c\/strong\u003e Anywhere from one digit to twelve. Four is quick and works. Eight is what we would suggest if the safe holds anything you would hate to explain. The touchscreen doesn't slow down for a longer code.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow does it compare to your other two safes?\u003c\/strong\u003e Inside, this one holds 12.05 cubic feet against 7.14 for the extra large and 4.33 for the large — so a little under three times the smallest. It has seven bolts to the smallest safe's six, three shelves to its two, and a hundred pounds more of it. If you are choosing, choose on what you expect to own in ten years, not on what is on the table today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tigerking","offers":[{"title":"Black \/ 17.6 Cubic Feet","offer_id":46413771898959,"sku":"aa02c444-c343-41bb-9ad4-44f1baae80c2","price":1895.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0717\/9377\/0575\/files\/44c94509a4399d0cd9eefbeb4ce4f832_1.png?v=1786986361"},{"product_id":"5-51-cubic-ft-biometric-keypad-riflesafe-black","title":"Barska Tall Biometric Safe - 5.51 cu ft Interior, Fingerprint and Keypad Entry, 10-Position Rifle Rack, Black, AX13646","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAX13646 - External Dimensions - 55.12\"H × 15.87\"W × 15.04\"D - 107.8lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA tall, narrow cabinet that opens to your fingerprint in about two seconds. The interior stands 54.8 inches high on a footprint of roughly 16 by 15 inches, so it fits a closet corner or the space beside a desk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eInside is a ten-position rifle rack and a removable shelf. The lock stores 160 fingerprints and two PIN codes, which suits a household or office where more than one person needs to get in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat it holds\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eRoom for a rolled set of house plans standing full height, the rifles in the rack beside them, and the passports on the shelf above.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eInterior\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e54.8\"H × 14.96\"W × 11.61\"D\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eInterior volume, calculated: 5.51 cu ft\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e10-position rifle rack, quoted without scopes or accessories\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eOne removable shelf\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eInner locking box: none\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eInterior finish: carpeted lining\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eExterior \u0026amp; siting\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e55.12\"H × 15.87\"W × 15.04\"D\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e107.8 lbs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eAnchoring: mounting hardware included\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eClearance: front-opening door\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eSecurity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eLock: fingerprint scanner and illuminated keypad\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eUsers: 160 fingerprints, 2 PIN codes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eDual-entry mode: requires both a fingerprint and a PIN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eOverride: two backup keys; external 9V battery port\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eLocking bolts: six steel deadbolts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eDoor assembly thickness: \u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eNot stated by the manufacturer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eWall thickness: 0.08\" steel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eAlarm and lockout: motion-sensor alarm, low-battery warning, lockout after repeated wrong entries, programmable silent mode\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eFirearm safety device: California DOJ approved, as stated by the manufacturer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eFire, water \u0026amp; media\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eFire rating: \u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eNone claimed.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eMedia \/ data rating: \u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eNone claimed.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eWater rating: \u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eNone claimed.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eThe rest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003ePower: four AA batteries, not included\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eBackup power: one 9V battery, not included\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eWarranty: one year limited\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eManufacturer part number: AX13646\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eUPC: 790272006632\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eFinish: gloss black\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003eIn the box: two backup keys, one removable shelf, mounting hardware\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eGetting in\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eDay to day, you open it with a fingerprint. The keypad is for anyone you'd rather give a code than enroll. Dual-entry mode asks for both, if you want a finger and a number before the door opens. Silent mode is there for when you would rather it opened quietly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIf the AA batteries run down, the keypad warns you first. If they go flat anyway, a 9V battery held to the external port powers the lock long enough to open it. The two keys cover the rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSiting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eFifty-five inches tall on a sixteen-inch footprint can tip if it isn't fixed, so bolt it down. The hardware is in the box, and on a cabinet this shape anchoring stops it falling as well as stops it walking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAt 107.8 lbs it's a two-person carry. At under 16 inches wide it clears any interior door. On a staircase, a rigid 55-inch object needs room to turn, so measure the landing as well as the doorway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat this is not\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eIt is not fire or water rated.\u003c\/b\u003e No claim is made for either, and the walls carry no insulation. If what you're storing needs to survive a fire, you need a fire-rated safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eIt is not a burglary-rated safe.\u003c\/b\u003e The body is 0.08-inch steel, and no UL burglary listing is claimed. Six bolts, an alarm and a cabinet anchored to the floor will stop an opportunist and keep a household out. It isn't a strongroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eThe rack count is for bare rifles.\u003c\/b\u003e Ten is the figure without scopes. See the first question below.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eOn the maker\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBarska started in 1994 in sports optics and came to safes later. They print \"without scopes or accessories\" right beside the rack figure, which is the kind of detail we look for. Where a figure above is marked not stated and you need it before you order, ask us and we'll put the question to Barska.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eQuestions\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eHow many rifles will actually fit?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eTen without optics. The interior is 14.96 inches wide, which gives each position about an inch and a half. A scoped rifle takes roughly the width of two. Height isn't the problem: at 54.8 inches, most long guns stand upright with room to spare. Tell us what you own and we'll work it out with you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eHow many people can have access?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eUp to 160 enrolled fingerprints and two PIN codes, plus the two backup keys.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eWhat happens if the batteries die?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe keypad gives a low-battery warning first. If they go flat, hold a 9V battery to the external port to power the lock, or use a backup key.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eDoes it need bolting down?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eYes. It's tall and narrow, and anchoring keeps it from tipping. The hardware is included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eWill it protect anything in a fire?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eNo. It has no fire rating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eIs it approved for California?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBarska state that it's approved by the California DOJ as a firearm safety device. The DOJ revises its list from time to time, so check it on the day you buy. We're glad to help you find it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barska","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46888386920527,"sku":"B2734P255711","price":1195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0717\/9377\/0575\/files\/IMAGE4b.png?v=1791865308"},{"product_id":"9-33-cubic-ft-tall-biometric-rifle-safe-black","title":"Barska Tall Biometric Rifle Safe - 9.33 cu ft Interior, AX11780","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e57\"H × 19.6\"W × 16\"D -\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e139 lbs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eAlmost everything a house holds is made to lie flat or sit on a shelf. The few things that are not — the long, the upright, the awkwardly tall — end up leaning in the corner of a closet, because nothing was built for them. This cabinet is very nearly five feet of clear vertical interior on a footprint no wider than a filing cabinet, and it opens to a fingerprint rather than a code.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eThat height is most often asked to hold long guns, and there is a sixteen-position rack inside for exactly that. It takes other upright things just as willingly — a tripod, a rolled survey, a pair of rods — and the three shelves lift out entirely when you want the full run, then go back in when you do not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 125%; margin: 6.0pt 0in 12.0pt 0in;\"\u003eRoom for long guns and a tripod standing upright, a shelf of camera bodies and shoeboxes where the barrels end, and the passport that spends its life migrating between drawers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 125%; margin: 6.0pt 0in 12.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 108%; margin: 13.0pt 0in 3.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%; text-transform: uppercase;\"\u003eInterior\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e56.5\"H × 19.3\"W × 14.88\"D\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eInterior volume:\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e9.33 cu ft\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eThree removable shelves\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eAdjustable rifle rack, sixteen positions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eInner locking box: none\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eInterior finish: fully carpeted\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eDoor organizer: none\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 108%; margin: 13.0pt 0in 3.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%; text-transform: uppercase;\"\u003eExterior \u0026amp; siting\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e57\"H × 19.6\"W × 16\"D\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e139 lbs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eAnchoring: rear panel pre-drilled; mounting hardware included. No floor-anchoring provision.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eClearance: front-opening door, full swing required\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eWheels or castors: none fitted\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 108%; margin: 13.0pt 0in 3.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%; text-transform: uppercase;\"\u003eSecurity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eOptical biometric fingerprint scanner\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eUp to 120 registered fingerprints\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eOverride: two backup keys, plus an external battery pack (AF12654) to power the lock from outside\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eFive-point steel deadbolt locking system\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eBolt diameter: \u003cb\u003eNot stated by the manufacturer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eWall thickness: 2mm steel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eDoor assembly thickness: \u003cb\u003eNot stated by the manufacturer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eAlarms: low-battery warning; door-opening alert\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eProgrammable silent access mode\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eListed on the California DOJ roster of certified firearm safety devices, device type \"safe\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 108%; margin: 13.0pt 0in 3.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%; text-transform: uppercase;\"\u003eFire, water \u0026amp; media\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eFire rating: \u003cb\u003eNone claimed.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eMedia \/ data rating: \u003cb\u003eNone claimed.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eWater rating: \u003cb\u003eNone claimed.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 108%; margin: 13.0pt 0in 3.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%; text-transform: uppercase;\"\u003eThe rest\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003ePower: four AA batteries (not included)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eWarranty: One-year limited, from Barska\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eManufacturer part number: AX11780\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eFinish: gloss black\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1.0pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 108%;\"\u003eIn the carton: two backup keys, mounting hardware, external battery pack\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 125%; margin: .25in 0in 7.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eWhat 2mm of steel is for\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eThe body is 2mm steel throughout — a shade under a tenth of an inch, in the range the trade calls 14 gauge. That is cabinet steel rather than vault steel, and the distinction is better had before you buy than after.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eAgainst the opportunist it is entirely sufficient, and the opportunist is very nearly every real case: the curious houseguest, the tradesman’s apprentice, the child who has worked out where things are kept, the burglar working to a clock who would rather take the television than spend ten minutes on a locked steel box. A closed, locked, anchored cabinet takes the contents out of the category of things that can be picked up on the way past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eAgainst tools and unhurried time it will not hold, and nothing at this wall thickness will. A pry bar worked into a door gap by someone with the afternoon free is a different order of attack, and the safes built to resist it carry a burglary rating from an independent testing house and weigh several times what this one does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eWhich makes the question that matters not how thick the steel is, but whether the cabinet is fixed to the building. An unbolted box can be carried out whole and opened somewhere quieter. The mounting hardware is in the carton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 125%; margin: .25in 0in 7.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eFive feet of steel, and where it goes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eAt 57 inches it stands taller than a chest of drawers and narrower than a wardrobe, which is what lets it live where a conventional safe cannot — a closet, the end of a hallway, the side wall of a garage. At 19.6 inches across it passes through a standard interior door without argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eEmpty, it weighs 139 lbs. Two people and a hand truck will manage it; one person and a flight of stairs will not. The floor is not a consideration at this weight, spread over this footprint. Tipping is. Tall, narrow and comparatively light is the profile of an object that goes over when a loaded door swings wide, and it is at its most top-heavy with the rack full and the shelves empty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eSo fix it. The rear panel is pre-drilled and the bolts are supplied; they want studs, not drywall anchors alone. Allow the door its full swing before you settle on a corner — the hinge side is not stated, so measure at the wall rather than from the specification.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 125%; margin: .25in 0in 7.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eWhat this is not\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 125%; margin: 12.0pt 0in 4.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt is not fire-rated.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eBarska build fire-rated models; this is not one of them, and no rating is claimed for it. In a house fire, the papers inside are in the same position as the papers outside. If what you are protecting is a will, a deed or a photograph, this cabinet answers theft and not heat — which is half the problem, and worth knowing which half.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 125%; margin: 12.0pt 0in 4.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt carries no media or water rating either.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eFor the same reason. No claim is made for either, so we make none. Drives, film and anything magnetic need an interior held below 125°F in a fire, and that is a different class of product built to a stricter promise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 125%; margin: 12.0pt 0in 4.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt is not sixteen scoped rifles.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eBarska are explicit that the figure is for guns stored with no scopes or accessories, and the arithmetic bears them out: sixteen positions across 19.3 inches of interior width is about an inch and a quarter per gun, which works only with bare barrels alternating butt-up and butt-down. Add optics, slings and thicker stocks and the working number comes down, often by something near half. Buy it for the height and the footprint, and read the rack as generous rather than literal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 125%; margin: 12.0pt 0in 4.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt is not floor-anchored.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eThe pre-drilled holes are in the back panel, for a wall. Bolting a safe down into a slab or a subfloor is a different job with different consequences, and it belongs to a fitter working under their own licence and their own insurance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 125%; margin: .25in 0in 7.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eOn the maker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eBarska is an optics house first — riflescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes — and has built biometric security cabinets alongside them for a long time, selling through sporting goods and outdoor retail rather than through the safe trade. That channel shapes the catalogue. The questions Barska’s buyers ask are about capacity, about access, and about whether the thing is on the California roster; on those the specification is complete and checkable. We confirmed the AX11780’s listing with the California Department of Justice directly, rather than taking it from a reseller’s page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eThe questions a safe specialist would ask — bolt diameter, door assembly thickness, hinge construction — belong to a different conversation and are not published here. If one of them would decide your purchase, write to us and we will ask them for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 125%; margin: .25in 0in 7.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eQuestions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 125%; margin: 12.0pt 0in 4.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDoes it need power to open?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eIt runs on four AA batteries, which are not in the box. A low-battery warning sounds well before it matters, and if the set dies anyway, the external battery pack supplied with it powers the lock from outside while you open the door. Two override keys come with it as well. Keep them somewhere other than the safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 125%; margin: 12.0pt 0in 4.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow many fingers can it learn?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eUp to 120 prints. Register each finger two or three times at slightly different angles rather than once — on any optical scanner, that is the cheapest thing you can do for day-to-day reliability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 125%; margin: 12.0pt 0in 4.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCan the beeping be turned off?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eYes. There is a programmable silent access mode. The door-opening alert and the low-battery warning are separate functions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 125%; margin: 12.0pt 0in 4.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWill it take scoped rifles?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eYes, and fewer of them — see \"What this is not\" above. The rack is adjustable, so the practical answer depends on your optics rather than on a number we could print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 125%; margin: 12.0pt 0in 4.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCan I bolt it down?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eTo a wall, yes: the rear panel is pre-drilled and the hardware is supplied. Into studs, not drywall anchors alone. There is no provision for floor anchoring on this model.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 125%; margin: 12.0pt 0in 4.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow does it arrive?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eBy freight, on a pallet, to the curb. The carrier contacts you to arrange a window, lowers the pallet to the street, and the last fifty feet are yours — inside delivery, unpacking and packaging removal are not part of a freight delivery. At 139 lbs, two people and a stair-climbing hand truck will do it comfortably. If you would rather it were carried in and placed, a local safe mover will do that for a flat fee; tell us your city and we will help you find one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 125%; margin: 12.0pt 0in 4.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat happens if it arrives damaged?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 125%;\"\u003eInspect the pallet before you sign for it, and note anything you find on the delivery receipt before the driver leaves — a signed clean receipt is hard to argue with afterwards. Photograph it, and write to us the same day. We will take it from there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barska","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50529412284495,"sku":"B2734P255707","price":1307.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0717\/9377\/0575\/files\/ChatGPT_Image_Sep_23_2026_at_09_37_36_PM_4_265bfbf5-eb77-4085-b300-d54b306a47f1.png?v=1791849918"},{"product_id":"2-02-cu-ft-biometric-keypad-fire-resistant-safe-with-fingerprint-access-black","title":"Barska Fire Resistant Biometric Safe - 2.02 cu ft Interior, Fingerprint and Keypad Entry, Matte Black, AX13744","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003e26\"H × 16.93\"W × 13.78\"D  103.4 lbs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA safe fails most often in the least dramatic way. Not cracked, not burned through — simply not used. The code takes a moment longer than the drawer does, the thing in your hand is going back out tomorrow anyway, and so it stays where it was, and stays there for a year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA fingerprint is the answer to that particular failure. It opens at about the speed of any cupboard, which is the speed at which a safe stops being a project and becomes a habit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWhat ends up inside a cabinet this size is usually a household's entire paper life — the deeds, the policies, the passports, the certificates that take months to replace — with a shelf above it for the few objects you would rather not have to describe to an insurer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 20.0pt 0in 8.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003eWhat it holds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eRoom for a standing file of deeds and policies, a camera body and its lenses on the shelf above, and the watch that stopped years ago and was never mended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 12.0pt 0in 2.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eInterior\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003e24.25\"H × 15.2\"W × 9.45\"D\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eInterior volume, calculated: 2.02 cu ft\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eTwo shelves, adjustable and removable, with brackets\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eInner locking box: none\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eInterior finish: LED light. Lining not stated by the manufacturer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eDoor organizer: none\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 12.0pt 0in 2.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eExterior \u0026amp; siting\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003e26\"H × 16.93\"W × 13.78\"D\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003e103.4 lbs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eAnchoring: pre-drilled for mounting. Mounting hardware included. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eClearance: front access, with a recessed door. Allow for the door to swing clear of the frame. Hinge side not stated by the manufacturer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eWheels: none.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 12.0pt 0in 2.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eSecurity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eLock: biometric fingerprint scanner with keypad. 160 fingerprints and two PIN codes stored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eEntry modes: single entry, where a print or a code opens it; or dual entry, where both are required. Switchable at the keypad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eOverride: two backup keys, and an external 9V terminal for jump-starting a flat safe. The 9V battery is not included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eLocking bolts: eight in total — four live steel bolts and four steel deadbolts. Diameter and placement not stated by the manufacturer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eDoor: recessed, for pry resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eDoor assembly thickness: not stated by the manufacturer. Barska publishes a single material figure of 2 mm, which we have converted to 0.08\", without separating the door from the body — the usual convention in this trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eWall thickness: 0.08\" steel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eHinges: not stated by the manufacturer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eAlarm: motion sensor; wrong PIN code; unregistered fingerprint. Silent access mode available. Low-battery warning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 12.0pt 0in 2.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eFire, water \u0026amp; media\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eFire rating: 25 to 30 minutes at 1,400°F, as stated by the manufacturer. Barska's materials give the figure both ways, as 30 minutes and as a 25-to-30 range; we print the range and would plan on the lower end of it, which is how we would want it given to us. Certifying body: not stated by the manufacturer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eMedia \/ data rating: \u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eNot a media safe.\u003c\/b\u003e This rating is built to protect paper. A drive, a tape or a strip of film needs an interior held below 125°F.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eWater rating: \u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eNone claimed.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 12.0pt 0in 2.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eThe rest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003ePower: four AA batteries, not included. External 9V backup access, battery not included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eWarranty: one year limited.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eManufacturer part number: AX13744\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eUPC: 790272008018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eFinish: matte black\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eIn the box: two backup keys, mounting hardware, two adjustable shelves with brackets,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003eSingle entry, and dual\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe biometric keypad module can be switched between Single Entry Mode or Dual Entry Mode.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn single entry, either credential opens it — a registered finger or a PIN. That is the household setting. It is fast, it survives a cut thumb or a wet hand, and anyone you have enrolled can get in without you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn dual entry, the safe wants both: the code and then the finger. Nothing opens on one alone. That is the setting for a shared office, a rented room, a house with a cleaner and a dog-walker and a plumber in it on a Tuesday — anywhere a code could be watched over a shoulder. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThen there is the number, which looks like a misprint and is not: 160 fingerprints. What that memory is actually for is redundancy on the fingers you do have. A reader is only as good as the impression it was given, so enrol the same thumb six or eight times — flat, rolled slightly left, slightly right, dry, after washing up — and the scanner stops being temperamental. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAnd the silent mode turns the confirmation beeps off. A small thing in daylight. Not a small thing at two in the morning, when the reason you are at the safe is that you think somebody else is in the house.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003eEight bolts, and what each of them is for\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe specification says four live bolts and four deadbolts, and the difference between those two is worth a paragraph, because it is the difference between two quite separate attacks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe four live bolts are the ones that move. Lock the safe and they drive out of the door edge into the body, which is what holds the door shut against a pull. The four deadbolts do not move at all. They are fixed pins that sit inside the frame while the door is closed, so that even if the hinge side is cut away entirely the door has nothing to swing on and nowhere to go. In the usual arrangement the fixed set lives on the hinge side for exactly that reason; Barska does not state the placement, and if it matters to your installation, ask us and we will put the question to them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe recessed door is the third piece of the same idea. Prying is not a contest of strength but of purchase — a bar needs a lip and a gap before it can do anything at all. Setting the door back into the body takes the lip away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWhat none of that changes is the steel. The body is 0.08\" — cabinet steel, not plate. Eight bolts will comfortably outlast the wall they are anchored in, and a fire-resistant cabinet of this weight is mostly insulation rather than metal, because the insulation is what the fire rating is bought with. At 103.4 lbs it is far past a casual lift and nowhere near past two determined people with a hand truck and an afternoon when nobody is home. So anchor it. The holes are pre-drilled and the hardware is in the box, and a bolted-down safe changes the problem from carrying it away to attacking it in your hallway, in the dark, making noise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003eWhat this is not\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eIt is not a media safe.\u003c\/b\u003e That standard asks for an interior held below 125°F, because a drive or a tape is ruined long before paper chars. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eIt is not water rated.\u003c\/b\u003e No claim is made, and there is no seal here to make one with. Worth knowing, because a house fire is generally followed by a great deal of water.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eIt is not a burglary-rated safe.\u003c\/b\u003e No UL listing is claimed for the body or the door, and none is implied here. Eight bolts and a recessed door are a sound arrangement, and 0.08\" of steel is what it is. Anchor it and it does its job; leave it standing free in a spare room and you have bought a heavy box with a handle on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eIt is not a listed firearm safety device.\u003c\/b\u003e Barska's own specification says so plainly. If a DOJ-listed device is what you need, Barska builds models that carry the listing and this is not one of them — better said here than discovered later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eIt does not arrive with batteries.\u003c\/b\u003e Four AA for the lock, and a 9V if you want one standing by for the external backup terminal. Worth having in the house before it lands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 20.0pt 0in 8.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003eOn the maker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBarska started in 1994 in sports optics — binoculars, riflescopes, spotting scopes — and came to safes later, arriving with a manufacturer's habits rather than a marketer's. You can see it in the specification sheet, which is unusually willing to write the word no. This one states outright that the safe is not a listed firearm safety device, in a place on the page where a less careful company would simply have left a silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eTheir biometric range is the part of the catalogue we find most interesting, because it is where a mass-market maker is doing something that used to be reserved for far more expensive cabinets, and doing it at a price an ordinary household will actually pay. They sell broadly — hardware and sporting retail, catalogues, the general market — and a specification written for that channel answers that channel's questions well. Where a figure we would have liked is not printed, we have said so above rather than guessed at it, and where you need one of those answers before you commit, ask us and we will write to Barska for it. We are in touch with them regardless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWe carry this one because it does an unglamorous job properly: half an hour of fire protection for paper, a lit interior on two adjustable shelves, eight bolts behind a recessed door, and a lock that opens fast enough to be used every day rather than admired once a year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"\u003eQuestions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 12.0pt 0in 2.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eWill my documents fit?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eLetter-size papers lie flat with room around them — the interior is 15.2 inches wide and 9.45 deep. Legal-size folders are the awkward case: at 9.5 inches they are a fraction too wide to lie flat, but they stand upright without difficulty, and at 24.25 inches of interior height there is room above them for a shelf as well. Deeds, titles, certificates and passports are letter-size or smaller and present no problem at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eRe: Fire Resistant. What does 25 to 30 minutes at 1,400°F actually mean?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eIt means a cabinet of this pattern was closed, taken to that temperature in a furnace, and opened again with its interior still below the point at which paper begins to char. It is a controlled, repeatable measurement, which is what makes it worth quoting — and also why it describes an oven rather than a house. Two practical things follow. Heat gathers at the ceiling, so a safe standing on a lower floor spends a fire in the coolest air the building has. And a safe that has been through a fire has spent what it had; if that ever happens, ask us before you trust it a second time and we will put the question to Barska.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 12.0pt 0in 2.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eHow many people can have access?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eUp to 160 fingerprints and two PIN codes. The print memory is generous enough that the sensible use of it is not more people but more impressions of the same fingers — enrol each thumb several times, at slightly different angles, and the reader becomes reliable rather than moody.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eWhat if a finger will not read, or the batteries die?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eTwo backup keys come with the safe, and there is an external 9V terminal on the outside that lets you power the keypad long enough to open a safe whose AA batteries have gone flat. The lock warns you while they still have life in them. One piece of advice, given freely: keep the keys somewhere that is not this safe — a relative's house, a drawer at the office, anywhere but inside the thing they were made to open.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eWill it protect a hard drive, or old photographs?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eNot in a fire. The rating here is for paper; drives, tapes, negatives and slides need an interior held below 125°F, which is a different and more expensive cabinet. Tell us what you are keeping and we will point you at the right one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 12.0pt 0in 2.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003eCan I move it myself?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 2.0pt;\"\u003eAt 103.4 lbs it sits below the weight where freight and liftgates enter the conversation, and at just under 17 inches wide it goes through an ordinary doorway without drama. It is still well past a one-person carry, and further past one up a staircase. 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