BedBunker — Sleep on Top of Your Gun Collection
Here’s a firearms storage vault with an unique, “stealth” design. The “BedBunker” from Heracles Research Corp., provides secure storage for up to 32 rifles and 70 pistols, in side-by-side locked steel compartments. BedBunker modular safes are designed to replace the box spring under twin, queen, or king size mattresses and are compatible with most standard bed frames. The BedBunker is equipped with eight 1″-diameter threaded legs for height and leveling adjustments. NOTE, the weight of the BedBunker is supported by the eight metal legs, NOT by the bed frame.
Pros and Cons of BedBunker Design
The patented, under-mattress design of the BedBunker has many benefits. Number 1, the safe is in a “stealth” location that thieves may ignore completely. The best gun safe is one that doesn’t call attention to itself. Second, an installed Bedbunker is very large, very heavy, and very difficult to move. Third, Bedbunkers take up no extra floor space, since they fit within the “footprint” of your bedframe.
What are the negatives? First, BedBunkers are very expensive. The $6070.00 Cal-King-size BedBunker is more than twice as expensive as a typical gunsafe of equal (1500 lb.) weight. The lighter weight “LT” Bedbunker Queen is more affordable at $1998.00, but the $5470.00 price of the regular Queen Double-safe unit will easily buy you two (2) large conventional, floor-standing safes.
Standard Queen-size Bedbunker System with Key Locks
We also have concerns about the standard Bedbunker locking system. We don’t think the key locks are as secure as a typical UL Group II (or better) safe lock and we don’t think the vertical lift doors (with small cross-bolts) would withstand a pry-bar attack as well as a premium gun safe equipped with multiple, large-diameter cross-bolts on all door sides.
Bedbunker Vault Systems — More Security, More Money
If you want higher level of security, Bedbunker does offer super-deluxe horizontal safes with combination locks and twelve 1″-diameter cross-bolts. But the Queen Size Bedbunker with combo locks and cross-bolts costs a whole lot more: $9470.00. (NOTE: There is currently a $1000 off promotion on this Queen unit, giving a net cost of $8470.00).
Cal King Bedbunker with Combination Locks and Vault Doors. Click to Zoom.
For more information, visit www.bedgunsafe.com, or call Heracles Research Corp. of Spokane, WA, at (509) 624-2555.
I was a cop for 29 years. I will tell you that residential burglars routinely turn over mattresses looking for valuables. This is common place for people to hide guns, money, and jewelry.They also look in night stands, dresser drawers, medicine chests, and master closets.
But I do like the fact that this doesn’t take up floor space like a regular gun safe will do.
1. The bed height with the bunker legs, the bunker, box springs, and one of today’s huge mattresses would be VERY high – and obvious.
2. Access would be difficult at best. Try moving a king or queen size mattress over far enough to open one of the side doors, much less the center, or worse trying to get access to all the contents at once. Do these folks also over a “flotation device” to elevate the box spring and mattress into mid air to get to your gear? And most bedspreads will not be long enough to get anywhere near the floor.
Also, the most typical drill is to bolt a safe to the floor, in a corner. Here does anything get bolted down to the floor or into door jams? Appears not.
All that and the high price = no sale?
True there is some inconvenience, removing the mattress to access your gun, but its a good space saver. A front or side door with sliding interior would be the best I think so you would not need to remove the mattress, you just open the safe and slide the drawer out to access your gun. Also another idea would be to forget about the bed and make a size to install it … in the floor, just cover it with a carpet. It would be concealed and easy access and still save the space.
Mike:
You’d only “save” space if you were still able to put something over that carpet – like a desk…or a bed. That something needs to get moved to access the safe. I do seriously like the idea of building a “safe” into the floor with solid concrete on all sides but the top – then conceal a “small” hoist in the ceiling to use in opening the door(s).