Originally Posted by
Dusty T
I've recently been looking for options to secure a rifle in my truck, in my city the largest safe store is run by a locksmith family of some 100 years. While there we got to talking about residential gun safes and they said hands down the most problems they have are with electronic locks, something like 50 to 1. They had I would guess close to 100 safes in the store and almost all were mechanical, they said the only kept a few electronic ones for customers with disabilities that made working a tumbler difficult. I know that doesn't help you now, but they did say that on many newer safes with electronic locks they can replace it with a mechanical one.