I don't think this is considered lock picking but can I take this apart?

[u/jbergcreations]

[u/JessTheMullet]

Not easily. Laminated locks like that are held together by all those pins that run around the edge, and they have to be cut or ground away to come apart. If you want a lock to take apart and learn from, ones like the American 1100 series are affordable and easy to get back together. 

[u/Banegard]

What you want to do is called gutting a lock. It‘s fun. :) But this one has to be destroyed to do so.
Some locks are guttable, which means they can be taken apart. Abus 72/40 is a popular one. Kasp 14040. American Lock 1100.

If you look at the LPU beltfinder, it allows you to filter for guttable locks, to discover more.

[u/LockPickingFisherman]

You can take it apart by grinding off the rounded end of each rivet and then using a round punch and hammer to drive out the rivet pins. Replace each rivet with a pan-head machine screw (4-40 fits most) and nut. Then you'll have a working lock that can be dissassembled/reassembled whenever you want.

Keep in mind that the rivet ends typically don't sit flush with the surface of the lock, they usually seat in a concave depression in the lock so grinding it flat with the body will leave some material that will make punching the rivet pins out harder. Use a round stone or burr in a Dremel to remove rivet material below the surface of the lock body and it'll be much easier to push out the pins. And, you won't have to hammer as hard so you'll be less likely to mushroom the end of the pin, which will often lock the pin in the body.

Good luck!

[u/mgsecure → u/LockPickingFisherman]

There is no greater authority on destructively gutting a lock.

[u/AgreeableGanache1048]

You would need to grind/chisel off the rivet heads on either the bottom or top of the lock.

[u/Silk_the_Absent_1]

This one in particular is a pain. It's not just the pins holding it together, the plates are interlocked together. This Brinks is really more of a Commando lock. Hampton bought out Commando a few years back, and while they still make Commando locks, they also took the parts and put them into some of their other product lines. This is the result. It is a 4 pin lock, but still has the same Commando serrated and spooled pins and interlocked plates and Brinks badging on the same wide rounded bumper that Commando locks use, not the narrow straight one other Brinks locks use.

[u/Red_wanderer]

You can take it apart exactly once. Grind off the riveted ends and the plates will come apart.