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|Description="Safes" are not real safes, self-certification, deceptive language, performative security features, exaggerating capacity by technicality, etc. | |Description="Safes" are not real safes, self-certification, deceptive language, performative security features, exaggerating capacity by technicality, etc. | ||
}}Products usually referred to as "gun safes" are usually not real safes<ref>https://webstore.ansi.org/standards/ul/ul687ed152011?utm_source=chatgpt.com</ref>, but "residential security containers" (Standard UL 1037).<ref>https://gunsafereviewsguy.com/articles/myths-about-gun-safe-theft-protection/2/#security-ratings</ref><ref>https://americansecuritysafes.com/testing-process-for-ul-rated-safes/</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20151029154039/http://ulstandards.ul.com/standard/?id=1037</ref> The distinction comes from the certification/rating system established by Underwriter’s Laboratories, an independent testing company.<ref name=":0">https://www.ul.com/services/anti-theft-device-testing-and-certification</ref> This is just one of the multiple deceptive advertising practices used in the residential gun safe industry. | |||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
{{Ph-I-B}} | {{Ph-I-B}}Underwriter's Laboratories certifications available include (in ascending order of security levels): UL RSC Level I, UL RSC Level II, UL TL-15, UL TL-30, and UL TL-30x6. TLTR-variant ratings are also available. UL testing involves one or more people using specific sets of tools to gain physical access to a safe in a certain amount of time. | ||
Other security ratings may be seen on products such as AmSec's B-Class and C-Class<ref>https://americansecuritysafes.com/burglary-ratings-explained/</ref>. AmSec claims the standards are set by the "insurance industry" but does not provide links to any published documentation that the consumer could use to verify what B-Class and C-Class actually mean. Additionally, unknown security ratings could be based on factors that do not have bearing in real-life scenarios that the consumer expects their product to perform. (Example: AmSec's product NARCO3824 is B-Class and the product description uses phrases like "it’s extremely difficult to break in or tamper with". However, NARCO3824 is 11 gauge steel which can be cut with handheld tools.<ref>https://youtu.be/NEeS5nCh5e8?si=OZs1R56HNGLp1T5S&t=195</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMXa1QImM54&t=134s</ref>) | |||
The existence of a "rating" or "standard" does not guarantee a product's performance. The Titanic's lifeboats were "to regulation", yet ~1,500 people still lost their lives. It is up to the consumer to understand what a product's claim actually means, and how that affects the attributes the consumer wants for a product. | |||
==[Incident]== | ==[Incident]== | ||
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* Embed side-by-side snapshots? (snapshot the fire-rating of a product from the company's website, next to a picture of that safe with rusted-out guns inside from surviving a fire) | *Embed side-by-side snapshots? (snapshot the fire-rating of a product from the company's website, next to a picture of that safe with rusted-out guns inside from surviving a fire) | ||
* Link to the Liberty Safe article on consumerrights.wiki | *Link to the Liberty Safe article on consumerrights.wiki | ||
* Create a guide about how to navigate the above incidents? | *Create a guide about how to navigate the above incidents? | ||
== Further Reading == | |||
The original author of this article recommends this web-guide for tips on gun safes including theft protection, fire protection, information security, home hardening, and common myths. | |||
* ([https://gunsafereviewsguy.com Honest Gun Safe Reviews]) | |||
Videos of people breaking into safes: | |||
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JmnG9R9S_k | |||
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_WCg0KEiyI | |||
Related consumerrights.wiki articles: | |||
* [[Liberty Safe]] | |||
* [[Ring]] | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
{{reflist}}<ref name=":0" />{{Ph-I-C}} | {{reflist}}<ref name=":0" />{{Ph-I-C}} | ||
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