Gunvault is one of the few top, reputable manufacturers of biometric gun safes on the market today and have been in the gun safe business now for 20 years.
Gunvault sells five types of gun safes and have variations in each of these models. They refer to these models as nano, micro, mini, multi and full size safes. As you might expect, these names refer to size. For instance, the nano gun safe is small enough to carry in a bag or briefcase, and as you progress upward, the safe size becomes big enough to hold a few handguns plus a few other valuables. Their top of the line gun safes are large enough to storm rifles or shotguns and much more.
We could bore you with all the details of the safes like 16 gauge steel, foam on inside to protect valuables, high strength locks and so on, but if they have been making safes for 20 years, the design should be quite adequate.
What is more useful to know, are the options you have in the gun safes and the biometrics involved - if any.
First, about the locks. A few of the safes (mostly the nano model) open with a key or code. The other safes open with a uniquely designed key entry pad and newer models come with biometric locks.
A quick glance at the middle-of-the-line models and you will see a "hand print" on the top of the safe. It makes you think that it reads the fingerprints of your whole hand. However it does not. In fact neither of the gun safe locks read all your fingerprints.
On the non biometric gun safe locks, the hand silhouette is actually a key pad with a button on each fingerprint. You simply place your hand on this keypad and enter your access code. An access code is a series of entries on the keypad made by your fingers. An "entry" is a single press of one or more buttons at the same time. You can use as few as three, or at most six entries. In an overly simple explanation, you place your hand on the keypad and wiggle (actually press) your fingertips in the sequence of your code. (An example might be first and fifth finger, pressing their buttons simultaneously, fourth finger presses its button, followed by fingers 2 through five each pressing their buttons.)
The Gunvault biometric lock operates by placing your whole hand on the silhouette but it has a biometric keypad which reads your pointer finger. If it matches one of the 30 fingerprints stored in its memory, you will gain access. What is unique about this biometric technology is its self learning algorithm. Every time you place your finger on the pad it reads it and accounts for small differences from the last time. It then updates the details of what is stored, making the recognition slightly better and reducing the chances of a wrong reading.
The other thing to know is that these safes come in a standard model and deluxe. The deluxe model comes with extra features like motion detector with audio alarm to guard against tampering; low warning signals on battery life; and an interior courtesy light that comes on for about five seconds.
That about summarizes the differences in these normal and biometric gun safes made by Gunvault. By understanding these few options and features you will much more easily be able to navigate the Gunvault site and select the gun safe that best fits your need.
