The Vaultek RS Series is the company’s answer to long-gun storage, and it splits into two genuinely different products: upright cabinets in three sizes, and a low-profile sliding safe that mounts where a cabinet won’t fit. Which one you need depends less on how many rifles you own and more on where the safe has to live. This guide covers the sizes, the modular pegboard interior that separates these from traditional rifle safes, and the installation details worth knowing before you order.
Two products, one series name
The RS Series cabinets — RS200i, RS500i, RS800i — are upright safes in three sizes, from a tight footprint up to eight rifles.
The RS Slider is something else: a low-profile safe with a sliding drawer, built to install horizontally under a bed or in tight clearance — or vertically with an optional conversion kit.
Same series name, different installations. Sort that first and the rest follows.
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How we researched this
This guide draws on Vaultek’s published specifications, current retail listings, and consistent owner feedback. We haven’t tested these safes ourselves, and no safe in this category should be assumed to resist a determined, tool-equipped attempt.
Vaultek’s own materials describe capacity differently in different places, so we’ve leaned on dimensions and weights where those are clearer than a rifle count. Verify current specifications and availability before purchasing.
Cabinet or Slider?
This is the decision, and it comes before capacity.
| RS Cabinets | RS Slider | |
|---|---|---|
| Orientation | Upright | Horizontal; vertical with optional conversion kit |
| Opens | Swing door | Sliding drawer |
| Goes where | Closet, corner, dedicated space | Under a bed, low-clearance area, wall or vertical installation |
| Capacity | Small collection through eight rifles | Up to 2 AR-style rifles plus pistols and gear, depending on configuration |
| Choose it when | You’re storing a collection | You want one or two long guns in a low-profile installation |
A standing rifle safe needs floor space and clearance for the door to swing. That’s fine in a closet or a spare room and impossible where ceiling height, floor space, or furniture rules it out.
The RS Slider exists for the second situation. It’s low-profile, it opens like a drawer, and it mounts to a surface — which means a rifle can live under a bed frame or in a tight space rather than in a cabinet you don’t have room for.
The Three Cabinet Sizes
If you’ve settled on an upright, the choice is size. Vaultek’s capacity language varies between its own pages, so the dimensions and weights are the more reliable comparison.
| Model | Dimensions (W × D × H) | Weight | Best Fit |
|---|---|---|---|
| RS200i | 14″ × 7.5″ × 50″ | ~45 lb | Small collection, tight footprint |
| RS500i | 14″ × 11.7″ × 54″ | ~93 lb | Mid-size collection |
| RS800i | 14″ × 16″ × 54″ | ~124 lb | Largest capacity — up to eight rifles |
Note the depth is what changes between them — all three are the same width, and the 500i and 800i are the same height. You’re buying depth, which is where rifles stack front to back.
Rated capacity assumes bare rifles
Any rifle count you see describes rifles without much hanging off them. Optics, bipods, extended magazines, and large muzzle devices all consume space — sometimes considerably.
If your rifles wear substantial optics and accessories, sizing up gives you useful working room instead of forcing every inch of the rated capacity.
On the RS200i: availability through retailers varies, and it’s the hardest of the three to find in stock. If the smallest footprint is what you need, checking Vaultek direct is the reliable path.
The Modular Interior
This is the feature that separates the RS Series from a traditional rifle safe, and it’s worth understanding before you compare on price.
Conventional rifle safes use fixed barrel rests — molded slots at set spacing that assume every rifle is roughly the same shape. That works for a rack of hunting rifles with iron sights. It works badly for a modern collection where one gun wears a 50mm scope, another has a bipod, and a third is a bullpup with a completely different profile.
The RS Series uses a perforated modular interior on the back and door instead. Many of the accessories use magnetic mounts that snap into the perforated panels and reposition as your setup changes.
The practical advantage is flexibility: you can move mounts around optics, bipods, and different firearm profiles instead of being locked into fixed barrel-rest spacing. It doesn’t guarantee you’ll reach the advertised maximum capacity, but it gives you more control over how the available space gets used.
The door panel is the underrated half — that’s storage that doesn’t consume floor space, which is where magazines, optics, and accessories end up. Vaultek sells additional pistol racks, magazine racks, barrel mounts, and shelves separately, so the interior can grow with the collection.
RS500i
Best for: Our pick for a typical mid-size collection.
The RS500i sits in the middle at 14 by 11.7 by 54 inches and roughly 93 pounds empty — meaningfully deeper than the 200i without the 800i’s footprint or weight.
WiFi-enabled biometric access with the modular panels on the back and door. If you own three or four rifles now and expect that to grow, this is the size that leaves room without committing to the largest cabinet in the line.
Check the Vaultek RS500i at Cabela’s →
RS800i
Best for: Larger collections, or rifles carrying enough hardware to consume space quickly.
The RS800i is the largest in the series — Vaultek’s catalog puts it at up to eight rifles, in a 14 by 16 by 54-inch cabinet weighing around 124 pounds empty. Same biometric access and modular interior as the 500i, considerably more depth.
Two reasons people land here rather than on the 500i. The obvious one is owning more rifles. The less obvious one is accessories — a collection of scoped rifles with bipods fills a mid-size safe faster than a rifle count suggests, and the extra depth turns Tetris back into storage.
The tradeoff is footprint and weight. At 124 pounds empty this is a piece of furniture, and it needs a wall and a floor that can take it.
Check the Vaultek RS800i at Cabela’s →
RS Slider — The Low-Profile Answer
Best for: One or two long guns accessible somewhere a cabinet can’t go.
This is the product that makes the RS Series interesting, and it solves a problem most rifle-storage content ignores entirely.
A sliding drawer needs no swing clearance. An upright safe requires floor space plus room for the door to open; the RS Slider is low-profile and pulls out like a drawer, which means it installs where nothing else will fit — under a bed frame, in a closet with low clearance, or against a wall.
Vaultek builds it with roughly 1,973 cubic inches of storage, designed for one to two AR-style rifles plus pistols and gear, with WiFi-enabled biometric access.
Horizontal isn’t the only option
Horizontal installation is what makes the RS Slider distinctive, but Vaultek also offers a Vertical Conversion Kit if your available space favors a narrow upright installation instead.
That’s worth knowing before you rule it out on footprint — the same safe can work flat under a bed or standing in a gap too narrow for a cabinet.
Who this actually solves a problem for: apartment and small-home owners who want a long gun accessible with nowhere to put a standing cabinet, and anyone prioritizing access and placement over collection storage. If you’re storing six rifles, buy a cabinet. If you’re staging one or two where you can reach them, this is the better tool.
Vaultek positions the Slider for bedrooms, closets, and offices. If a vehicle installation is what you have in mind, verify that against the manufacturer’s current installation guidance and consider the temperature and moisture factors — our car gun safe guide covers what vehicle storage actually involves.
Worth noting the parallel with Vaultek’s handgun Slider Series, which uses the same sliding logic at pistol scale. Same idea, different size.
Check the Vaultek RS Slider at Cabela’s →
The ViSN Question
RS Series safes are WiFi-enabled through Vaultek’s ViSN platform — app management plus live alerts for tampering, impacts, and temperature or humidity changes.
On a handgun safe, we’d tell you ViSN is optional and many buyers skip it. On a rifle safe the calculation is different, and it’s worth explaining why.
Why connectivity matters more here
You open a rifle safe less often. A nightstand safe gets touched daily; a rifle cabinet might go weeks between openings. Tamper alerts fill that gap — you’d know if someone tried, rather than finding out on your next range trip.
Humidity is a real concern with long guns. Long guns stored for extended periods can be vulnerable to corrosion when humidity isn’t controlled, making environmental monitoring more relevant here than on a pistol box you open regularly.
The contents are worth more. Eight rifles with optics represents a considerably larger investment than one handgun, which changes how much monitoring is worth.
And a useful safety net: current ViSN RS models can also operate in Essential Mode without WiFi or the app. You lose live alerts and connected monitoring, but the safe itself doesn’t become dependent on an internet connection.
That answers the obvious objection. If your WiFi changes, the app disappoints, or you simply lose interest in connectivity, the safe keeps working as a safe.
Installation Reality
Three things worth planning before delivery rather than after.
Weight varies a lot across the line. The RS200i is roughly 45 pounds empty, the RS500i about 93, and the RS800i about 124. Add rifles and accessories and you’re not casually repositioning the larger models after setup. Measure doorways and plan the route before it arrives.
Plan on anchoring it. An upright safe that isn’t secured can be tipped, which gives someone considerably more leverage to work with. The upright RS models include mounting screws and pre-drilled holes for wall or floor anchoring — and usefully, Vaultek aligns the rear holes vertically so they can hit a single wall stud.
That’s a genuinely practical detail. Finding two studs at exactly the right spacing can complicate an installation; the single-stud pattern avoids that problem.
Enroll multiple fingerprints on both hands before you load the safe. That gives you more access options if one finger is wet, injured, or positioned poorly — and it’s much easier to do on an empty safe.
A rifle safe isn’t a fire safe
The RS Series are security safes rather than fire-rated products. If fire protection is a requirement for your collection, that’s a different category with its own ratings.
Our main gun safe guide covers what fire ratings actually mean and where they apply.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many rifles does the Vaultek RS Series hold?
Vaultek’s catalog puts the RS800i at up to eight rifles, and the smaller models scale down from there. Worth knowing that Vaultek’s own materials describe capacity differently in different places, and any rifle count assumes relatively bare rifles — optics, bipods, and extended magazines consume space quickly. The dimensions are the more reliable comparison: the RS200i is 7.5 inches deep, the RS500i 11.7, and the RS800i 16.
What’s the difference between the RS Series and the RS Slider?
Orientation and purpose. The RS cabinets are upright safes for storing a collection. The RS Slider is a low-profile safe with a sliding drawer, designed for one to two AR-style rifles plus pistols and gear, installed under a bed or in low-clearance spaces — positioned for access and placement rather than collection storage.
Can the RS Slider be installed vertically?
Yes. It’s designed primarily for horizontal installation, but Vaultek offers a Vertical Conversion Kit for narrow upright installations. That makes it viable in a gap too tight for a standard cabinet as well as under a bed.
How much do these weigh?
Roughly 45 pounds for the RS200i, 93 for the RS500i, and 124 for the RS800i — empty. Plan the delivery route and the final location accordingly, since the larger models aren’t something you’ll casually reposition once loaded and anchored.
Why does the modular interior matter?
Traditional rifle safes use fixed barrel rests at set spacing, which assumes every rifle is roughly the same shape. The RS Series uses perforated panels with magnetic, repositionable mounts, so you can work around optics, bipods, and different firearm profiles. It doesn’t guarantee you’ll hit the maximum rated capacity, but it gives you more control over how the space is used.
Should I size up?
If your rifles wear substantial optics and accessories, sizing up gives you working room instead of forcing every inch of the rated capacity. The depth difference between models is significant — 7.5, 11.7, and 16 inches — and that’s where scoped rifles either fit or don’t.
Is the ViSN WiFi worth it on a rifle safe?
Stronger case here than on a nightstand safe. You open a rifle cabinet less often, so tamper alerts fill a real gap. Humidity monitoring also matters more with long guns stored for extended periods, and the contents typically represent a larger investment. And if you change your mind, current ViSN RS models can run in Essential Mode without WiFi — you keep the safe, you lose the alerts.
Where can I buy the RS200i?
Availability through retailers varies, and it’s the hardest of the three to find in stock. Checking Vaultek direct is the reliable path if the smallest footprint is what you need.
Should an RS Series safe be anchored?
Yes. Vaultek provides mounting hardware and pre-drilled holes for wall or floor anchoring, with the rear holes aligned vertically so they can hit a single wall stud. An upright safe that isn’t secured can be tipped, which gives someone considerably more leverage to work with.
Are these fireproof?
No. The RS Series are security safes rather than fire-rated products. If fire protection is a requirement, that’s a different product category — our gun safe guide covers what those ratings mean.
What else does Vaultek make?
Quite a lot — quick-access handgun safes in the 10, 20, and 30 Series, the high-capacity MX and MR, the Smart Station nightstand safes, and the portable LifePod case family. Our complete Vaultek guide decodes the whole line.
The Bottom Line
Start with where the safe has to live, not how many rifles you own.
If you have room for a cabinet, the RS500i is our pick for a typical mid-size collection, and the RS800i is the one to buy if your rifles wear optics and accessories that consume depth faster than a rifle count suggests.
If you don’t, the RS Slider is the answer nothing else in the category offers — one or two long guns accessible under a bed or in a tight space, horizontally or vertically with the conversion kit.
And whichever you choose: size up if you’re between two, anchor it into structure, and enroll multiple fingerprints before you load it. Those three decisions are much easier to get right before the safe is loaded and anchored than afterward.
Continue Your Research
Authority reference: for guidance on secure firearm storage and why anchoring matters, see the ATF’s information on safe storage. State requirements vary and may be stricter than federal guidance.
Note: Dimensions, weights, capacities, and configurations reflect manufacturer information and current retail listings rather than our own testing. Vaultek describes capacity differently across its own materials; rifle counts assume typical firearm dimensions, and optics, bipods, extended magazines, and muzzle devices reduce practical capacity. Vaultek revises its lineup frequently and model availability through retailers varies — verify current details and stock before purchasing. These are security safes, not fire-rated products, and no safe in this category should be assumed to resist a determined, tool-equipped attempt. Follow manufacturer guidance on anchoring, installation orientation, temperature limits, and battery maintenance.
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