My great grandfather kept all his money hidden inside a mattress. For home defense he had a shotgun with shells loaded with rock salt. He was openly talking about all his money being at home and his shotgun. Never even attempted robbery.
He also had a reputation for being a crazy bastard so that must have been an additional home security measure.
I've found a well-made safe bolted to the floor generally defeats most people.
Well concealed floor safes > all other safes.
Safes dont stop thieves, only slow them down. Slow thieves are still screwing around with an angle grinder when you come to introduce them to your pals Smith & Wesson.
If you're a good thief, not much is going to stop you.
If you're a bad thief, then I don't know what you're talking about.
I picked up a used commercial safe last year, the things weighs 1,750 pounds. It took 4 grown men and a lot of ingenuity just to get it off the trailer. Needless to say I didn’t bolt it to the floor.
I have always rolled them on pieces of pipe.
I found a tiny safe in an older home in a rich jewish neighborhood. It was slightly smaller than a shoe box but it wasnt bolted down i dont think. I took an angle grinder to the back of it and opened it up because i could hear stuff rattling around in it. It was the god damn screws you're supposed to use to bolt it down and the instruction manual. Fucking hell, that thing itself was probably worth a few bucks.
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