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Fort Knox......
I bought mine based on advice I got from an LEO who had worked many burglaries during his long career (he is retired now since 2000). He told me to stick with a safe that had a minimum 10-gauge wall thickness, because the cheaper safes that use sheet metal are very prone to breaching; Typically he said thieves would take a pickaxe and use it to punch a hole in a side wall, then use a regular axe or maul to literally open the hole like you would open a tin can. Once they had the hole large enough, they would use a pry bar to widen the hole so the valuables could be extracted.
Anyway, mine weighs about 1300lbs and is bolted to the slab in my home. there are structural walls on either side so no one can try to work on the side walls to get through, they will have to go through the strongest part of the safe, the door. It has a 1300 degree fire rating for one hour, so I am not worried about anything getting burned too badly.
Good luck with whatever you decide, but Fort Knox has worked great for me.
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