Can your Padlock Take a Bullet

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lock bullet mdIf you use padlocks to secure your property, you might want to check out the abuse tests that Popular Mechanics conducted on several locks from different manufactures. They subjected locks from Master, Franklin, OnGuard and Medeco to Shock, Tensile, Salt-Fog, Gunshots and Bolt-cutter tests. Go read the full report to see which lock stood up the best.

4 thoughts on “Can your Padlock Take a Bullet”




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  2. Of course, you can get most of them open in seconds with some filed-down bits of spring steel, and still be able to re-lock them…

  3. God,

    The bullet at the padlock was a very old commercial back in the sixties/seventies.

    But then everyone realized that the padlock was rarely the strongest part of locking something. The coupler that held the padlock was usually much more flimsy.

  4. Picking most of these locks is much quieter then a bullet. Also a dewalt drill down the tumbler is often faster.

    The Truth is no lock will stop those that want in bad enought. Locks keep the honest people honest.

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