In these times of economic strife, civil unrest, and wild weather patterns, it is important that people take their personal security serious. Many people have come to realize this, and gun sales in the United States have skyrocketed.

While police officers can help, they are not adequate protection for keeping citizens safe at all times. In rural areas, long guns are the preferred guns for home protection. Examples of long guns are bolt action rifles and pump shot guns. Conversely, people living in the suburbs and the cities tend to own hand guns.

Whichever gun you choose, make sure that you choose to get a good safe. Personally, I think that the biometric gun safe is the best safe to have in one's home. An electronic fingerprint safe will allow you to hold your guns in a manner that allows you to get them quickly. It also keeps others from getting to them at all.

For those of you that don't know what a biometric gun safe is, I'll try to explain. The biometric gunsafe allows one entry though the use of a finger print reading. This type of safe will be set to allow entry to only a select few people that have registered their fingerprints with the safe.

The reason this is so great is that it allows folks to get to their gun without fumbling around for a key or attempting to remember a combination. Guns are great for preparing for emergencies, but they are useless if you can't get to them when that emergency happens.

An old time gun safe is great for storing firearms safely. Sadly, an old time gun safe will keep its owner out of it during times of crisis. This is a result of them being difficult to access during a crisis.

A traditional safe owner must have his or her key available for use or he or she will not be able to open their safe. In an effort to solve this problem, people created combination safes. Regrettably, combination safes have their own set of issues.

The combination will have to be remembered and this can be hard during stressful encounters. Imagine trying to remember your combination during a life and death situation. Also, combination locks take a bit of time to get into. The user must rotate a lock to several different positions and do so in a manner that will allow the safe to open easily.

When you use a biometric device, you don't have to worry about the problems associated with combination safes and traditional safes. As a result, my thought is that the biometric gunsafe is the best safe to have your gun in during an emergency.