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  • 07-03-2013 4:20am
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    rocoso
    Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭


    hi all just wondering is there any truth in the rumor I heard that a gun safe now should not be bolted to the wall .....if there is a fire one of the first questions that will be asked off the home owner will be are their munitions in the house ......and as I have been told true or not true if there are they wont enter unless they can recover it first.....going making some calls to emergency departments to confirm.....somehow I doubt it


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    juice1304
    Registered Users Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭juice1304


    The safe needs to be bolted to the wall otherwise someone could just pick it up and take your firearms, what would be the point in having them in a safe. Sounds like utter scutter to me.


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    rocoso
    Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭rocoso


    ya same as that juice I will find out tomorrow ...but a man whos in the game for a long time gave me this news yesterday


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    bravestar
    Registered Users Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭bravestar


    rocoso wrote: »
    hi all just wondering is there any truth in the rumor I heard that a gun safe now should not be bolted to the wall .....if there is a fire one of the first questions that will be asked off the home owner will be are their munitions in the house ......and as I have been told true or not true if there are they wont enter unless they can recover it first.....going making some calls to emergency departments to confirm.....somehow I doubt it

    No there is no truth in the rumor. I have never heard DFB ask anyone about munitions inside a house, there generally isn't time for chit chat like that and besides, unless the cartridge is confined inside the chamber of the firearm when it goes boom due to the heat of a fire, it will not fire with anywhere near the amount of force or pressure it usually would.


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    Cass
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 28,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cass


    Don't waste the phone call.

    This is law;
    Each firearm shall be stored securely in a gun safe which complies with BS 7558 and which shall be securely fixed to a solid structure

    It's part of SI 307/2009.



    This;
    ......... but a man whos in the game for a long time gave me this news yesterday
    ........... is just that. Rumor.

    As i said to an elderly gentleman recently "you being older only means you have been wrong longer". :D
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    rocoso
    Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭rocoso


    well cheers for that fellas.....


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