Maybe it’s just me, but there’s something really cool about swiping your finger over a biometric scanner, and having a hidden door in your wall pop open, revealing your personal home defense arsenal – it’s a bit neater that spinning a dial to open a safe door anyway. Regardless of your sentiments toward my Mission Impossible fantasy, storing your valuables in a hidden wall safe definitely has its advantages.
Perhaps you’re familiar with the saying, ‘if they can’t find it, they can’t steal it’. This is basically the driving force behind the appeal of wall safes. The better hidden you’re wall safe, the less likely the bad guys will be able to get their filthy rotten hands on your valuables. For this reason, popular placement of hidden wall safes is behind a heavy piece of furniture or a painting (just like int he movies). If you’re going to store anything extremely valuable in your safe, it’s highly recommended that you first insure the contents, and secondly hide them as well as you can. The unfortunate fact remains that if a burglar discovers the safe, and wants it badly enough, he likely won’t have much difficulty ripping the safe out of the wall.
As inferred in the opening example, these concealed security units can provide excellent support in effective home defense. Many are designed specifically with firearms storage in mind. In the case of the wall-mounted breed of gun safe, they’re usually constructed with more convenience locking systems – either electronic keypad or biometric fingerprint reader. A biometric wall safe embodies the upper echelon of firearms accessibility. They enable you, the owner to get to your gun when you need it most, while preventing virtually all other unauthorized access. The fingerprint reader ensures that only you, and those whom you wish to have authorization can get to your guns. Your kids can swipe their finger all they want, but they’ll never get in.
Combining concealment, with rapid accessibility, nothing compares to the home defense protection provided by a biometric wall safe.