A high-dollar gun safe won't stop the sophisticated thief who wants your rare or difficult to acquire gun, but there really aren't many of those.   The real threat is the low-life meth-head or heroin addicted punk who is just looking for something to fence quickly so s/he can buy more meth or heroin; a decent safe will send that person to your neighbor's house.

I lived in ANC back in the '70s and then in JNU until '10.   JNU has a youth culture right out of "A Clockwork Orange," but it doesn't compare to the lower class and emotionally disturbed underclass of Anchorage.   I worked for a big sporting goods retailer here  for awhile; we called Fridays, "Tweaker Night."   We entertained ourselves by chasing meth-head shoplifters looking for something they could fence so they could party on Saturday night.   This town is over-run by the lower class and emotionally disturbed.