Locked in a gun safe?

[n4zov]

The Firearms Blog reported that a 16 year old in Grapevine, TX managed to lock himself in a gun safe in a Bass Pro Shop and the store could not get the safe open! The fire department drilled a hole in the safe to give the idiot teenager air until the safe could be opened. That report made me wonder about the possibility of children being accidentally locked in a safe and if anybody has ever had any experiences like that. Anybody?

 

[kscardsfan]

I plan on preventing that by keeping the safe too full to be played in

 

[BarbC]

Couldn't he poke out the plug for the Goldenrod?

 

[redneckemt]

And that's why around here all the shops that sell Gun Safes keep them locked. You got to find a Manager to look inside them.

 

[GF]

My old cat got locked in the safe once. I had to come home from work and open it after my wife couldn't find him, heard him meyowing and called me a panic.

I though more of him than my teenagers. They could've stayed locked up 'til I got off from work.

GF

 

[Wheelgunner840]

I am thinking that it is not possible, with a dial combo anyway. Pretty sure it cannot happen with an electronic one either. Simply closing the door is not enough. A latch has to be turned down or spun to lock the door. I think that any safe needs to be manually locked from the outside. One of his pals must have had a hand in this.


WG840

 

[sipowicz]

Couldn't he shoot his way out?

 

[sub-moa]

Couldn't he shoot his way out?

He already shot himself in the foot...why risk it ?

 

[bitstream]

Couldn't he shoot his way out?

Give the man a cigar!

 

[feralmerril]

I read where frank hammer had a guy that had a lynch gang after him locked in a safe trying to save him and the guy suffocated before hammer could get him out!

 

[rburg]

I planned ahead for that one. I have an inside release. I'm not happy with what I've got to do to lock myself in even if I want to.

I've got to spin the crank to move the bolts to locked, then spin the dial, then go inside and pull the safety release while shutting the door. But once inside I'm locked in.

Just me, some ratty old guns, a years supply of wine and booze, and enough ammo to blow me to hell and back. That reminds me, I'm moving a cot and some food inside this afternoon! I don't care if a tornado does come along.

About 25 years ago at a jeep race a friend went into a port-o-let to relieve himself. Another friend saw him and hid. Then the instant the door closed he drove over and parked his jeep up against the door. Then he got out and walked away. All kinds of thrashing and squalling from inside when he realized he was trapped (just like inside a gun safe!) But enough room to stand or sit...... They're still friends. He got out by having some of us move the port-o-let back 3' or so.

Yes, he went looking for the guy who "done" it. Couldn't find him, he drove out in his other car and went home for the night! There was payback, a few years later.

 

[Jellybean]

The really sad part is that the store employees couldn't get him out. I was in a Wal-Mart once that had a safe on display. I asked the sales clerk if I could look inside of it and he said they couldn't get it open. They have the combination but someone had closed it and they get the combination to work. Then he said that he could show me the combination if I thought I could open it up. I did it and then showed him where they were making their mistake.

 

[gregintenn]

I am thinking that it is not possible, with a dial combo anyway. Pretty sure it cannot happen with an electronic one either. Simply closing the door is not enough. A latch has to be turned down or spun to lock the door. I think that any safe needs to me manually locked from the outside. One of his pals must have had a hand in this.

That is what little brothers are for.

 

[gregintenn]

About 25 years ago at a jeep race a friend went into a port-o-let to relieve himself. Another friend saw him and hid. Then the instant the door closed he drove over and parked his jeep up against the door. Then he got out and walked away. All kinds of thrashing and squalling from inside when he realized he was trapped (just like inside a gun safe!) But enough room to stand or sit...... They're still friends. He got out by having some of us move the port-o-let back 3' or so.

I work with a guy who turned a port=o=let over onto the door with someone inside it. That, in my opinion, would be a shooting offense.

 

[gaucho1]

I work with a guy who turned a port=o=let over onto the door with someone inside it. That, in my opinion, would be a shooting offense.

Gives a whole new meaning to "feeling blue"

 

[westcoast362]

My Cannon T series with an electronic keypad will lock by just closing the door.

 

[cobra44]

If it was an electronic lock, there was really no reason to drill the hole. Most safe companies use one of two codes from the factory. I have opened several brands at stores where the person working there could not get them open.
Of course they have to have a battery in them.
I have even opened a couple at gun auctions where the owner had never set his personal code.

 

[Skeeziks]

Couldn't he poke out the plug for the Goldenrod?

Have you ever been inside a safe with the door closed? I would imagine it's quite dark. Probably tuff to find the plug.

PLUG!!! did somebody say plug? Are we talking about "The Plug" again? ~

 

[NE450No2]

I heard it was his brother that closed the door and locked him in.

 

[hberttmank]

My Cannon T series with an electronic keypad will lock by just closing the door.

Does your safe lock without turning the handle ? Just curious, never seen this before.