What Are Liberty Safes Made Of?

At Liberty Safe, your security and satisfaction is our priority. That’s why our safes are carefully assembled with only the highest quality steel, hinges, locks, paint, fire insulation, carpeting, and interior components.

We start with high-quality American steel. The bodies and doors of our safes are formed from coiled 14, 12, 11, 10, or 7-gauge carbon steel, depending on the model of the safe, with a pickled and oiled protective coating to help prevent rust until the safe is painted. Unlike our competitors, our exclusive manufacturing process results in no seams on the front or sides of our safes’ tops – resulting in a stronger box that’s more resistant to prying and impacts.

Our safes are finished with a durable powder-coat paint that’s permanently applied onto the metal surfaces. We offer three kinds of paint finishes to suit your tastes: textured, marble, and gloss. No matter which finish you choose, your Liberty Safe is sure to be a beautiful addition to your home’s interior for decades to come. (See more details about the painting process in the section below.)

These safes aren’t just decorative, though – Liberty Safes have proven fire insulation installed on all six interior surfaces, including the floor and door. With multiple interlocking layers of fireboard, a Liberty Safe is a top choice to help your prized belongings survive the devastation of a home or apartment fire.

After the fireboard goes in, our safes head to final assembly. There, they receive their fabric interior and innovative, user-configurable shelving system (read more details on our customizable interior configurations below). We choose high-quality, stain-resistant fabric and heat glue it to sheets of wood to create a durable, long-lasting, and luxurious-feeling interior for your safe.

Finally, Liberty safes receive their final security feature: quality locks and hardened, military-style locking bars. We install UL-listed, EMP-resistant electronic or mechanical locks along with locking bars that range from 3/16 inch thick steel up to ½ inch thick! And don’t forget, all of our steel is American-made. We won’t settle for anything less than the best – and you shouldn’t either. That’s why you can trust your Liberty Safe. Let’s go over some features in more detail.

• Fully welded internal hinges prevent a thief from tampering, cutting, or torching off the gun safe’s hinges.
• Internal hinges provide extra resistance against prying or bending of the door.
• Smooth sliding ball-bearing hinges combined with the location of the hinges act as an automatic door stop to protect your home’s walls from damage. Try it out!

Benefits of external hinges (all National Security branded models)

• Fully welded external safe hinges still utilize active bolts on all four sides of the inside of the door to prevent removal of the door, even if the hinges are tampered with.
• National Security safes are UL-listed for security, as well as the internal-hinged Liberty Safes.
• External hinges allow a wider door swing, thus providing more access to the inside of the interior and valuables. Check the proposed location of your safe to determine whether you can benefit from the wider door swing of an external hinge model.
• National Security safes feature external, ball-bearing-mounted door hinges with decorative hinge caps for a beautiful, traditional aesthetic.

In short, if you favor a nostalgic, classic look and/or you have room for a safe door that opens as wide as possible, go with the external hinges. If you prefer a more modern, streamlined look and/or your safe’s location doesn’t allow a full 180-degree swing of the door, the internal hinge designs might be better for you.

Liberty uses two types of relockers. 1. The first is built inside the lock. 2. The second is located outside of the lock and connects the back plate of the lock to the spring-loaded firing pin that interlocks with the cam or gear-drive mechanism for opening the safe.

Benefits of Liberty’s safe relockers

If a thief tries to knock the lock’s backplate off or torch the lock, the lock’s internal spring-loaded relocker automatically fires, preventing the tumbler from completely turning. This keeps the locking bolt (in the lock housing) from retracting and keeps the safe locked.

In addition, Liberty adds a second redundant external relocker to the backplate of the lock and the opening mechanism. If the lock’s back plate is punched off, the second external relocker fires like a mouse trap, permanently locking up the safe’s opening mechanism. This keeps the hardened locking bolts from retracting. Even if the lock is completely destroyed, the safe remains locked tight.

BEWARE: Many competitor’s safes DO NOT have internal relockers inside their locks nor a second external relocker connected to the lock’s back plate. Liberty has both. This is one of the reasons Liberty’s safes are UL-listed and lesser safes are not. Some safe manufacturers go cheap on the mechanism, reasoning that if you can’t see it, you don’t need it. Wrong!

Liberty uses 3 styles of paint finishes on our safes

NOTE: Pricing on textured and marble safes is more competitive than high-gloss-painted safes due to reduced labor requirements on the metal finish work prior to paint. However, there are other advantages to the textured finishes, including resistance to showing fingerprints, dust, and scratches. They also have a more subdued, stealthy appearance if that’s your preference.

3-in-1 Flex™ Interior

Sportsman - In this configuration, the adjustable shelving and shelf covers are removed from the lower left side of the safe’s interior, providing multiple rows of slots for long-gun storage on the left while retaining lots of shelves for smaller items and valuables on the right.

EZ-Access - For people who favor a mix of shelves and quick access to long guns, this configuration has the adjustable shelving and shelf covers removed from the lower right side of the interior and the EZ-Access slots installed there instead, providing open, quickly accessible slots for long-gun storage.

Collector - For safe owners with lots of long guns to secure, the Collector configuration features maximum capacity for rifles and shotguns. The adjustable shelving and shelf covers are removed from both the lower left and right sides of the interior, providing all available slots (both Sportsman style and EZ-Access slots) for long-gun storage. You still get a large shelf above for other items and valuables, too!

If you step up to the Liberty Franklin series or higher models, your safe will come standard with our 4-in-1 Flex™ interior. (The top shelf is available in safe models that are 40 inches tall and above.) The 4-in-1 interior features all the configuration options described above in the 3-in-1 Flex system, but with the addition of a fourth option for installing all available Flex shelves and covers for an all-shelving interior configuration. This allows maximum organization and storage of smaller items, valuables, documents, and/or handguns and is ideal for people without long guns to secure or who have other safes for their rifles and shotguns. The choice is up to you!