Burglars hit American homes more than 1.5 million times a year, hauling off nearly $3.5 billion in cash and other valuables, and even sophisticated electronic home security systems don’t deter experienced thieves. The only real protection for homeowners is a home safe, the ultimate protection device to thwart even the most determined criminals. Home safes, available in a wide range of price categories, are designed specifically to protect the most-stolen items in a home burglary: cash, jewelry, guns, and easy-to-carry laptop computers and notepads.

FBI crime statistics reveal that burglars spend, on average, just 10 minutes inside a home looking for items they can easily carry and quickly unload for cash because that short time is about all they have before an alarm system will send help or arouse suspicion. For even the most wired home, with prominent signage of electronic protection, this analysis suggests the alarm system merely acts as a time clock for brazen thieves.

While the burglar alarm simply limits the time spent on-site by criminals to 10 minutes, even a seasoned safecracker would be hard pressed to crack a modern safe in twice that time…