Thread: Gun Safe - Any Good?

Originally Posted by outlander

The ones illustrated in GOT-YA's post have a 2mm constructed door and wall and are recognized as legal. Has the law changed again?

The law hasn't changed yet, but..........

From the Secure Storage Guidelines for Firearms on the Police website
"Steel cabinets, containers and receptacles should have walls and a door of at least 3mm thick steel. If the cabinet, cont ainer or receptacle is constructed of steel less than 3mm, bracing must be added to provide equivalent strength. The bracing should be to such a level to stop the door or the safe from twisting. "
This is currently not law, only a guideline, but the proposed new regulations (Proposals for new Regulations under the Arms Act 1983 (Phase One)) include:
"The regulations in relation to firearms security to be amended to include a requirement that a licence holder’s security measures are to be approved in writing by a member of Police, following an inspection, on a case-by-case basis. This will involve individual approvals of both storage boxes, cabinets, safes, racks and similar and the manner in which they are locked and/or secured to the building containing them. The standards on which approvals will be based will be those set out in the Secure Standard Guidance, so that those standards will become enforceable. There would be some clarification in the regulations on the security standards to better link them to the Secure Storage Guidance."