About us
We compare 15 gun safes so you can pick the right one in an evening, not a month.
Why does this site exist?
Shopping for a gun safe means decoding "24-gun" capacities that hold 14, fire ratings quoted at four different temperatures, steel gauges that run backwards, and approval badges that are sometimes printed and sometimes only implied. Prices move every week, more so around Black Friday. Most of it is buried in product pages and spec sheets. We pull it into one place, check it against the seller's own US page, put a date on every price and score every safe with the same formula.
Who writes it?
Grant Holloway is our editor, gun safes. He reads the product, specification, warranty and returns pages of 10 brands and their US sellers, checks the prices (last on November 13, 2026) and writes the reviews and guides with the editorial team. Write to him at [email protected].
How do we work?
- Facts come from the seller's product page, linked at the bottom of each review. Fire ratings, capacities and approvals are quoted from the brand, word for word, and labeled as claims.
- What a page doesn't publish stays blank and scores low: a safe cannot win on silence.
- Claimed gun capacity is not part of the score. Steel thickness, fire rating, lock, published approvals, warranty and price are.
- We keep a sober tone: a safe is about children, theft and fire. No safe is fireproof or impossible to open, and we never say so. Storage laws vary by state and nothing here is legal advice.
- The scoring formula is public on our methodology page, with the tie-break that keeps every score different.
- Every review names the catch, and who should buy something else.
- How we are funded is explained in our affiliate disclosure.
Who publishes it?
Best Gun Safes is published by Mint Technology LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of New Mexico, USA, 4405 Jager Dr NE, Ste C4-4375, Rio Rancho, NM 87144, USA.