My pushbutton wall safe has left the building - so to speak.

Wife asked me "why doesn't the safe work anymore"?

I was: 'Wut?".

Sure enough - the @#XX%!! didn't work anymore. Would not open. With visions of a grinder in my head, I finally found a way to get it open ...once. Crank the open lever hard and press the combo. Loud noises and it finally opened. Took the guts apart and it's likely the plastic internals that have chosen to stop being so efficient. Although I only paid $100 for it, the model is discontinued and the closet thing is $300. I don't want only an electronic lock. The last one was a simplex pushbutton made in america thing that just worked. (until it didn't). Electronic with a key backup is fine. Mechanical is fine. Not really a believer in straight electronic or bio-metric. I'd likely buy teh same guts except they are not for sale by themselves.

I just got lucky and opened this one for a final time without tearing the walls apart. It can be made anywhere, as long as you think it's a solid price-performance thing.

Requirements: must fit in between the wall studs. Current one is 14-1/2 x 14-1/2 and it's too small. Not storing any guns in it, pretty much have passports, wills and jewelry. The broken one is full full full. Like to have a bit more space.

Now that I have the old one open, it's gonna be pulled out and replaced. What have you all chosen for this job/function that you are happy with (or unhappy with)?

I have a VLine in-wall safe for about 10 years now. Very happy with it - never had a problem.

https://www.vlineind.com/shop/...n-wall-handgun-safe/

This reminds me of a story . Old guy I used to work with ( Mike ) said that he lived in a dicey neighborhood . Mike told me that he put some of his guns in a wall and covered it with sheetrock , paint .I always wondered if any of Mike's family knew that . He was a widower and lived alone .

Most wall safes are horrible due to the depth limitations. They do make deeper wall safes, but if you have additional depth there's no reason to limit yourself to a purpose built wall safe.

Gardall and Hayman both build a regular wall safe that uses a UL listed lock (electronic, mechanical, or key). V-Line builds wall mounted gun safes with the simplex style lock.

Outside of that the vast majority is Chinese junk that will be hit or miss and eventually suffer the same fate as your existing unit.