Tiiger wrote:TBH I'm probably looking at your normal 'gun safe' setups like a lokaway or hyskor safe or whichever. Not the bigger 'vault' type safes which I see the hinges handing off of.
I get the idea though. Only important on basic gun safes where the hinges do hold on one side of the door.
Correct. Lokaway is a good example... If you've looked at their sales stuff they show how their doors go in behind the frame of the safe for the full height of the safe, their internal hinges etc. because this is all stronger than a typical locker style turn handle which just secures the door at one point.
Defeat that 1 point on a locker and the door swings open, whereas on a Lokaway you would have to pry open the door for the entire height of the safe to open it that way.
Moving up to a proper safe (not a locker/strong box) which has locking bolts all the way around, if they manage to get off both the hinges, they'd still have to pry the entire door out completely, around every side, in order to get it to open.