r/canadaguns • u/1-800-eat-shit__ • Jun 15 '26

Buy recommendations Princess Auto safe

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While I was at princess auto recently I couldn't help but notice the crazy price on their 20 gun safe. Ive been looking at safes recently not only for my guns but for personal documents and stuff. Wondering if its a good buy or if the typical princess auto quality is something I should be worried about.

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u/MRcrete Jun 15 '26

Genuine question: is it wise to keep important, non-firearm related, items in a gun safe?

I used to keep cash, passport and various other valuables in my gun safe but stopped doing that when I learned more about the insanity of our gun laws.

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u/1-800-eat-shit__ Jun 15 '26

My building recently had a break in and a lot of my neighbors personal documents were stolen. Im more worried about my neighbors than the government at this point.

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u/MRcrete Jun 15 '26

Right, yeah fair enough. I live in the country so that's less of a concern for me.

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u/EngFarm Jun 15 '26

It depends.

Your average gun safe complies with the bare minimum legal requirements. It's basically a high school locker, signals that it has expensive things inside it, and it's not very difficult to break into or carry away.

The safe pictured is too heavy to carry away, it has big dead bolts and not just a flimsy 1/4 turn sheet metal latch, and it has a fire rating.

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u/airchinapilot Jun 15 '26

I don't understand the concern about keeping other things in the gun safe. Why do you think that would be a problem?

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u/MRcrete Jun 15 '26

I'm not sure if it would be a problem or not. I'm far from knowledgable on this topic.

However, if the police are at your place to seize your firearms and perform whatever wellness checks they do and you've got $10k in cash in your safe beside your $20k in legally purchased rifles. I can imagine them taking it all only to let a judge sort it out at a later date. Whereas if the money is stored separately from the guns and there's no signs of it being the proceeds of crime, I would think the police would be more likely to leave it be after confiscating the rifles.

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u/airchinapilot Jun 15 '26

That is an interesting point. I think you have something there. However, I tend to think also if it is a wellness check and they are going to seize firearms, they might check all secure places where firearms could be stored and your concern might also apply in all those cases even should you have a dedicated document safe.