Building a safe or weapon room: Class 1 EN 1143-1
Build a gun room - build a safe room
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Weapons are known to be pack animals, and they sometimes reproduce unchecked. Here, a beautifully chiseled triplet from a venerable Suhl gunsmith, there, a rare, handcrafted one-of-a-kind piece, or even an unexpected addition through a dedication, gift, or inheritance—there are many reasons why a gun cabinet, once acquired in ancient times and long sufficient, is now bursting at the seams.
The simplest solution, of course, is to buy the next gun safe now. Our HUNTER series gun safes offer you a good spatial concept thanks to our GUN-i-FLEX gun holders, which are available in Class 0 EN 1143-1 or Class 1 EN 1143-1.
But another idea might also be on your mind: building your own weapons room.
Gun room - safe room: what's the difference?
Both a gun room and a safe room are accessed through a strongroom door. The firearms authorities require this gun room door to be certified according to EN 1143-1, citing WaffR $36. Insurers also require a safe room door to be certified according to EN 1143-1, citing their general insurance conditions.
The differences then become apparent only in the construction of the floor, ceiling, and especially the walls. Insurers sometimes impose more stringent requirements regarding penetration characteristics, and some existing rooms already fail to meet these requirements.
In gun law, these requirements are not yet so restrictive, but it cannot be ruled out that an advisory brochure will be created in the future that will no longer be available only at the state level, but will instead issue nationwide recommendations. As we have already heard, these recommendations will then become binding instructions for the respective local gun authorities, thus abolishing, for the first time, the federal, isolated approach to such matters. However, this would also deprive any potential for discussion, as the employees of the local gun authorities will rely on them; after all, they currently have no other means at their disposal. But there is also something positive about this: as an interested user, you would finally have a nationwide standard, regardless of whether you live in Flensburg or Freiburg – a measure of reliability.