SOULYI Digital Gun Safe for 3 Pistols Safe DOJ Certified with 3 Quick Access Handgun Safe, Keypad Matt Black Bedside Firearm Safety Car Safe Hardened Steel Lock Box

I was surprised at how heavy duty this gun safe is. The manufacturing and materials look top notch. The fingerprint reader works well and quickly. It won't open for any of the rest of my fingerprints. The push button code is a nice backup/alternative to the fingerprint reader and works well. You can turns the sound off for both locks so no beeps if you don't want them. It took one full-sized and one compact handguns with an extra mag for each and that took a bit of finagling, no extra space for this particular load. This safe totally met my needs and is well thought through and well made.

It opens quick. Easy to program. Good craftsmanship. I am impressed!

Took about two weeks to get here, but it was worth the wait. This safe is the perfect size and a great purchase for the price. It is very sturdy, well designed and built. Although this model does not have the fingerprint sensor, I prefer this option because of personal preference. This safe easily holds 2-3 hand guns and magazines. Fits underneath my car seat and easily in most drawers comes with a tie down lock to prevent theft. I will be purchasing another for my other vehicle.

Soulyi gun safeI put this gun safe in my Cart for $99. While I procrastinated ordering, it dropped to $79. When it dropped to $59 I ordered immediately before they changed their mind again. When I checked two days later the price was $99. It’s worth the $99 in my opinion.Construction: The steel shell feels very solid. There is a recess on the sides so the safe may be easily grasped and carried without putting your fingers underneath.Electronics: The buttons for fingerprint and codes are large and clearly marked. You can turn the lights feature on/off with a simple toggle switch. If the lights are turned on each button has bright green lights and a smaller blue light goes off for each time the button is pressed. If the code is not punched in correctly you can try again in about 5 seconds. The average time to open the lid using four digits as 1-1-1-1 was one second. The fastest time was .78.The fingerprint scanner lights up blue then green and opens the lid easily and fast. Using a light touch, the lid takes an average of .66 seconds to open. The fastest time was .47.There is an internal light which is very helpful. It can be toggled on/off when the safe is opened.Sounds: There is a mechanical “whoosh” sound that can be toggled on and off. It’s good for swag and impressing your buddies but serves no functional purpose. Turn it off to preserve a little battery life. I leave mine on, I like the sound.Four 1.5v Pairdeer Industrial Alkaline batteries were included, made In China. I did not use the included batteries, I used Members Mark because the latter is a known quality brand in my experience.Battery compartment: There were two problems here. I read in other comments that the battery compartment was too tight, others said the batteries fit too loose. It turns out both were true.The batteries are stacked vertically, two on bottom and two on top. The bottom battery (+) end would not fit into the compartment. The fit was way too tight by about 1/16th inch. I used a drill with a tapered grinding stone to open the plastic holder and the bottom (+) finally fit through. The second battery on the bottom fit with no problem. This was a three minute fix and was easy to do with the proper drill and tapered grinding stone which can be picked up locally for $5 bucks.The top battery (-) fit in properly but once the second battery was inserted there was a gap between the batteries and this fitment was too loose by a quarter inch. The problem was the spring was so weak it literally collapsed and left a gap. I was able to pull the battery away from the spring and it finally fit properly.Inserting the batteries should not be this hard nor require a power tool to make the battery fit. This was a quality control issue IMO as both brands of batteries I used had the same tightness problems.The bottom line is that with the batteries properly seated, the safe functions perfectly. I worked to make the batteries fit because I liked the rest of the safe. The battery compartment problem was not a deal breaker for me but it's a genuine issue. One Star deducted.Application: The Soulyi claims it can hold four pistols. I used two sub-compacts, an M&P Shield9 1.0 and the new Shield9 Plus, both the same size. This safe could hold 4 sub-compacts but nothing else. It will hold two M&P Shield9 pistols and one additional large capacity OEM mag for each, 8 round mag for the Shield9 1.0 and 13 round mag for the Shield9 plus. Both mags are the same size.It will also hold both Shield9’s while holstered. I have a small IWB and a OWB for concealed carry and both fit in the safe with both guns holstered.I plan to use this safe in my car. My Toyota RAV4 has electronics under both the driver and passenger seats and the safe will not fit there, front or back. For quick access to the contents, putting the Soulyi on the passenger seat or the passenger seat floor works really well. In my car putting the safe in the passenger floor rear it is too cumbersome to retrieve the contents quickly.Cable: The small 18” cable is fairly robust with a loop on one end and a propriety fitting on the other end which goes inside the case and is secured with what looks like a flimsy looking locking slide piece. I don’t have an opinion on how strong the inside fitting is as I could not test it.I didn’t like the small length of the cable at first but now I understand why it’s that way. It’s designed to be used with a second cable, a longer piece of cable that the owner can customize to length. If you take the safe in and out of car you don’t want a five foot cable to drag around. I would use my own lock where the two cables join and then take the safe with the small cable back and forth from car to home, motel, whatever.Recommendation: I’m mixed. For the guy who can take a sixteenth of an inch out of the plastic battery compartment, I can recommend the Soulyi. If you can fix it, you get a high quality safe with excellent electronics.For the average person who expects plug and play and doesn’t want to fix the QC problems, I can’t recommend this safe. It simply will not work out of the box due to the too tight and too loose tolerances in the battery compartment.Conclusion: Four Stars. Five Stars if the batteries could be easily inserted.

I initially had a problem with the finger print reader and their customer service promptly replaced the product.

I ordered two of these and happy with the product. They are easy to set up and user friendly. I would have liked predrilled holes on the bottom to mount it to a surface.

The media could not be loaded. Biometrics do not work properly.I always spend time reading the manuals and getting things right.The product only allows a total of four fingerprints, so after setting two prints for me and two for my wife, this is what is happening.NOT REGISTERED FINGERPRINTS1. The box would unlock with ANY fingerprint, we set up only index fingerprints, but it is unlocking with any of the other fingers. And this happens randomly. It will sometimes unlock and sometimes won't, but all of these tests were done with fingers that were not registered in the set up.REGISTERED FINGERPRINTS2. It will not open with the registered fingerprints and after 4 tries with all of our registered fingerprints, it locked us out completely.3. As you can see in the video, you would be lucky if it unlocks for you in an emergency situation, but it is likely that it may take you several tries to unlock it, and if that happens, the box will lock itself out and lock you out, the only option after that is getting the key and unlocking it that way. Good luck if you're retrieving your gun in a life or death situation.4. With the registered fingerprints, sometimes it will light up green and you can hear the lock moving to unlock and open, but the door will actually not unlock and open.The best I can describe it is, that it seems to be jammed, even though it acts like it wants to open.4. You can see in the video that the foam on the door will not stay in position. The door has glue on it, but the foam just falls off. Not a huge deal but it's just poor quality work.5. The box does have an option to unlock by pressing a code using the buttons, but now I cannot trust this product to work as it should, especially when it matters most.I have little kids and knowing that this box randomly unlocks with any prints completely defeats one of the major purposes of a gun safe.This is complete trash, DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME, DO NOT RISK YOUR LIFE, DO NOT PUT YOUR FAMILY IN DANGER.I can't return it because the time window passed.I wouldn't give this away either, I don't want to be responsible for this dangerous "gun safe"

This gun safe is just as sturdy as it claims to be. In the video, it wasn't penetrated by gunfire. I didn't shoot at it myself, but I did try stepping on it, and there was no deformation at all, which is something I haven't seen with other products. It also has more space than some of the other mainstream gun safes I've seen. It's an excellent product.