Mounting pistol safe in bedroom

[Carrlitu]

I'm looking for options as to where to mount the safe in order to have it as close as possible but also safely secure it to something.
Is it a good idea to bolt it inside a nightstand drawer? My concern is that if I'm being robbed (while the house is empty) someone could take the whole drawer with them. On the other hand, i assume it’s one of the inherent drawbacks of this type of safe.
Other options would be to mount it under the bed attached to the frame, but it would be more difficult to access.
Any suggestions besides getting a larger safe one can’t pick up? While it would be ideal, I’ve got zero room in my home.

[Tensaw]

Perhaps the best/main benefit to the smaller lockboxes is to make sure that some a-hole doesn't shoot you with your own gun if you happen to walk in while the crook is being a crook. For anti-theft use, you may lose some convenience/ease of access.

[blues]

I bolted my V-Line "Brute" to the floor between a piece of furniture and the wall in our bedroom. I'll unbolt it if I ever need to.

I usually keep one gun in it, locked up, and put another couple in it when I'm leaving home for an hour or two. Otherwise those (other two) are available while I'm at home.

[mmc45414]

Do you own the home, like are you able to put holes in it? [emoji41]

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[GyroF-16]

I’ve got one of these:
https://vaulteksafe.com/product/vaultek-safes/slider-series/

It’s bolted to the nightstand (a 40 lb piece of cherry furniture).

It has a fingerprint reader and, [literally) two other ways to open it quickly, and two more not as quickly.
I open it an average of 15 times a month, and it always works.
It’s mounted on the nightstand facing the bed, so it’s not very visible.
And if a thief recognizes what it is, and wants to take it, he’ll have to haul off a piece of furniture to do it. Then figure how to break into it.

It’s not cheap, but I’ve had it for 6 months now, and I’m very satisfied.

The largest gun that will fit (barely) is a Beretta 92 Centurian (ask me how I know).

[Dave J]

Since my nightstand disappeared in a divorce (along with all my other furniture), I'm currently using a Tuffy lockbox with a cable running through a hole in the steel bed frame. It's certainly not theft-proof, but at least some crackhead can't easily walk off with it, or use it against me if I return home at the wrong moment.

I like the Tuffy boxes, but I'm finding it more difficult to use the dial combination locks without reading glasses, so I'll probably switch to something with a simplex pushbutton lock in the near future.

[LJP]

Since I rely on a shotgun for bumps in the night but also have to secure my handguns (small children), I mounted a Stack-On Stand-Up Home Defense safe (https://www.stack-on.com/product/stand-up-home-defense-safe/) in the corner of my closet. It holds my SBS, a lever action, and the handguns that I carry most frequently. It is bolted to the floor and to the wall. I'm sure a determined thief could get it out with a pry bar, but it would require some work. As well, it is out of sight, out of mind for casual visitors or workers that might be in my home. I'm under no illusion that it's fail-safe security, but for what it is, it works well. My only complaint is the lack of back-lighting on the keypad. I have a flashlight on the shelf above it and I've virtually got the combination sequence hardwired in my brain and fingers by now.

Failing that, I would use a steel cable on a lock box that was looped around some large immovable piece of furniture.

[Poconnor]

I use a V line shotgun safe lag bolted to a wall in my closet. It is behind the closet door so it is not visible if the door is open