In short
The app’s catalogue lists 390 gun safes and cabinets with resistance grade, dimensions and weight. For Ireland, the app does not fill in a security class on its own for now: you choose it when you create the storage location. A pre-filled class describes the safe. It does not say whether the safe is enough for what you keep in it.
The security classes the app knows for Ireland #
For every storage location you choose a class in the app; the field is called “Security class”. These are the Irish classes as the app shows them, from the simplest to the most demanding: what each class requires and allows, and which provision it comes from. The classes depend on how many firearms you keep in the same place and of which kind; the table states that for each class.
| Class | What the class requires and allows | Provision |
|---|---|---|
| One shotgun, disassembled, with trigger lock | Only for a single non-restricted shotgun: when not in use it is disassembled, each part stored securely and separately, and the trigger housing secured with a trigger lock (Schedule S.I. 307/2009, no. 1). Any further firearm and any restricted firearm needs a gun safe to BS 7558. | Schedule S.I. No. 307 of 2009; Art. 4 S.I. No. 21 of 2008 |
| Gun safe to BS 7558, fixed (1 restricted or up to 3 firearms) | For one restricted firearm or up to three non-restricted: each firearm in a gun safe complying with BS 7558, securely fixed to a solid structure (Schedule S.I. 307/2009, no. 2). With two restricted or more than three non-restricted firearms, an alarm and BS 3621 locks on the external doors are also required. For mixed holdings – say one restricted and two non-restricted – the Schedule names no level: take the next higher one (no. 3); whether your accommodation is sufficient is decided by the superintendent when granting the certificate (s. 4(2)(d) Firearms Act 1925). | Schedule S.I. No. 307 of 2009; s. 4 Firearms Act 1925 |
| BS 7558 with alarm and BS 3621 door locks (up to 5 firearms) | For two restricted firearms or more than three non-restricted: gun safe to BS 7558, fixed, plus an alarm at the premises and locks complying with BS 3621 on the external doors (Schedule S.I. 307/2009, no. 3). From three restricted or six firearms in the same place you need the monitored intruder alarm. | Schedule S.I. No. 307 of 2009; s. 4 Firearms Act 1925 |
| BS 7558 with monitored intruder alarm to EN 50131 | From three restricted firearms or six firearms of any type kept in the same place: everything from the previous level plus an intruder alarm complying with I.S. EN 50131, installed and maintained by an installer licensed by the Private Security Authority, connected to a licensed monitoring service with GSM back-up signalling (Schedule S.I. 307/2009, no. 4). | Schedule S.I. No. 307 of 2009; s. 4 Firearms Act 1925 |
| Locked ammunition receptacle, separate from the firearm | When the firearm is not in use, ammunition is kept in a locked receptacle, separately from any firearm in which it can be used (reg. 13 S.I. 209/2022). | reg. 13 S.I. No. 209 of 2022; s. 4 Firearms Act 1925 |
What applies to the safe itself, to alarms, door locks and ammunition is set out in the rows of the table. Read it there; it is not repeated here.
Which resistance grade leads to which class #
When you add a gun safe or cabinet, you pick the model from the catalogue. The table shows which Irish class the app then fills in for each resistance grade. The last column gives the number of models of that grade in the catalogue, whether a class is pre-filled or not. The app only proposes a class where the Irish provision itself names the standard the safe is graded to.
| Resistance grade | Pre-filled class in Ireland | Models in the catalogue |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 0 (EN 1143-1) | not pre-filled | 100 |
| Grade I (EN 1143-1) | not pre-filled | 165 |
| Grade II (EN 1143-1) | not pre-filled | 41 |
| Grade III (EN 1143-1) | not pre-filled | 27 |
| Grade IV (EN 1143-1) | not pre-filled | 13 |
| Grade V (EN 1143-1) | not pre-filled | 12 |
| Class S1 (EN 14450) | not pre-filled | 23 |
| Class S2 (EN 14450) | not pre-filled | 1 |
| Level B (VDMA 24992) | not pre-filled | 8 |
A pre-filled class is a suggestion from the app, not a ruling on your safe, and you can change it. Where a row says “not pre-filled”, the safe may still meet an Irish class. The app simply does not choose for you; the classes that exist are in the table above.
What the app does with your safe #
In Waffenschrank you add a gun safe or cabinet and pick the model from the catalogue. Resistance grade and weight fill in by themselves and, where there is a pre-fill for that grade, the Irish class too. Every field stays editable. Below the choice, the model sheet shows resistance grade, certification, outer and inner dimensions, weight and the number of long guns it holds, together with the source.
Every safe becomes a storage location. When you link firearms to it, the app compares them with the class and tells you if there are more than the class allows, or one the class does not permit. It also tells you when you link ammunition to a location whose class does not take it. If you are asked how you store your firearms, you can see location by location what is where.
The catalogue data come from the manufacturers’ product pages and data sheets. For now, the safes in the catalogue come from German manufacturers.
For the wider picture — certificates, deadlines and renewals — see Firearms law in Ireland at a glance.