Guns hidden throughout the home
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Posting such stuff is a very bad idea.
No.
If one is that concerned about things, it's much faster, cheaper, and safer to just carry at home. Or at least keep your main defensive firearm handy.
Use the money you'd save on not hiding guns around and upgrade your door hardware, get some motion activated lights, and that sort of thing.
Home invasions often move pretty quick and you might not have time to swing back a painting or flip up the couch cushions or whatever.
If one is that concerned about things, it's much faster, cheaper, and safer to just carry at home. Or at least keep your main defensive firearm handy.
Use the money you'd save on not hiding guns around and upgrade your door hardware, get some motion activated lights, and that sort of thing.
Home invasions often move pretty quick and you might not have time to swing back a painting or flip up the couch cushions or whatever.
whughett
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Love these threads. The doers and the donters.
Folks you know these days one can arm their doors and windows and for a couple of bucks more install motion detectors in several rooms. All wireless ,all battery operated connected to an incredible loud siren both in and out. For a lousy $14.95 monthly it’s monitored and police dispatched, for $24.95 it’s all controlled by your smart phone. Cellular technology. All for the price of a cheap safe or carry piece.
My two homes are so equipped and their even posted as being alarmed. In my neck of the woods the boys in blue arrive within 10 minutes. Ask me how I know. Ya I know you live 40 miles up a dirt road and the sherif is half way across the county. Most of us, the majority of us live in town, city or urban areas. Home alarms are the best security of all. Backed up by Sam Colt, by choice on your person or stashed in accessible locations.
So no Mr Kleabore I don’t have to assume my home is empty when the bride and I are away.
Folks you know these days one can arm their doors and windows and for a couple of bucks more install motion detectors in several rooms. All wireless ,all battery operated connected to an incredible loud siren both in and out. For a lousy $14.95 monthly it’s monitored and police dispatched, for $24.95 it’s all controlled by your smart phone. Cellular technology. All for the price of a cheap safe or carry piece.
My two homes are so equipped and their even posted as being alarmed. In my neck of the woods the boys in blue arrive within 10 minutes. Ask me how I know. Ya I know you live 40 miles up a dirt road and the sherif is half way across the county. Most of us, the majority of us live in town, city or urban areas. Home alarms are the best security of all. Backed up by Sam Colt, by choice on your person or stashed in accessible locations.
So no Mr Kleabore I don’t have to assume my home is empty when the bride and I are away.
cslinger
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Just the claymores located at the home entrances. I do hang my Play More With Claymore signs as a warning though. 
In case sarcasm is lost on anybody. No I don’t really have a booby trapped perimeter, unless you count an uneven floorboard that I have tripped over many times.
In case sarcasm is lost on anybody. No I don’t really have a booby trapped perimeter, unless you count an uneven floorboard that I have tripped over many times.
I find this is a good way to go.
FAS1
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My dad had guns all over the house, but he didn't have the option of quick access storage back then. I choose not to, but have my home defense guns ready and accessible, but safely stored.
Pocket carry is something I have done for the last 20+ years so anywhere I go there is always a gun available to only me.
Pocket carry is something I have done for the last 20+ years so anywhere I go there is always a gun available to only me.
Yes, and all are good things.
The can make unlawful forcible entry more difficult and they can slow it somewhat. But they cannot stop it.
And, of course, when the server is down.....
The local police here say that the sign is likely more effective as a deterrent than the alarm itself.
That doesn't compute.
AlexanderA
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Paradoxically, I have nothing in my house worth stealing .... except the guns themselves. That's why I try to keep the guns as inaccessible as possible, and, of course, unloaded. This goes directly contrary to the idea of having loaded guns ready to hand, hidden in random locations.
JFrank
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But it’s ok for others to talk all the Bad Ass Bunker Bob Crap about their arsenals and what their gonna do when there neighborhood creep breaks in???
My SD guns are for Bear and my rifles are for Deer & Elk and a 6 BR for Target shooting.
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whughett
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LOL. You sir are the supreme pessimist. Bet you were Captain of the debate team in high school.
Not at all. I never expect rouble. But I am very risk averse.
whughett
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Well statistically you got a better chance of getting injured or killed driving to the local grocery
Store. Seatbelts lower the odds but don’t eliminate them.
I tried to do some research on home evasion in the US as a percentage of house holds. There are a lot of home evasions. I was looking for “home evasions” as occurring while the home was occupied, the stats just seem to lump all breaking and entering a domicile as home evasions regardless if the occupants are present or not. Still the threat is as real as the auto ride to the grocery but the odds are in our favor of it not happening.
As to knowing if my home had been invaded while I was away. Were it to happen I get a text, phone call
and email to my smart phone at the same time an alarm is generated at the local police station. Yes the server could go down, no it hasn’t happened in the last five years. Alarms are also generated for water intrusion, low temperatures or carbon monoxide, all controlled and viewable by smart phone.
We do what we can, yes.
Store. Seatbelts lower the odds but don’t eliminate them.
I tried to do some research on home evasion in the US as a percentage of house holds. There are a lot of home evasions. I was looking for “home evasions” as occurring while the home was occupied, the stats just seem to lump all breaking and entering a domicile as home evasions regardless if the occupants are present or not. Still the threat is as real as the auto ride to the grocery but the odds are in our favor of it not happening.
As to knowing if my home had been invaded while I was away. Were it to happen I get a text, phone call
and email to my smart phone at the same time an alarm is generated at the local police station. Yes the server could go down, no it hasn’t happened in the last five years. Alarms are also generated for water intrusion, low temperatures or carbon monoxide, all controlled and viewable by smart phone.
We do what we can, yes.
bassjam
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When I was single and lived alone I had a few handguns stashed around the house in various drawers and cabinets. Then I started dating someone with a 4 year old, and they all got locked up temporarily while I slowly bought handgun safes for all of them. I soon married her, and we had more kids, and for the foreseeable future they will continue to stay locked in handgun safes in their current locations.
I remember when my great uncle passed and my grandfather and my mom were cleaning out his house (he was a bachelor) they kept finding guns stashed all over the place. Every time they'd say "well surely THAT'S the last one", they'd find another hidden behind a book or on top of a cabinet.
I remember when my great uncle passed and my grandfather and my mom were cleaning out his house (he was a bachelor) they kept finding guns stashed all over the place. Every time they'd say "well surely THAT'S the last one", they'd find another hidden behind a book or on top of a cabinet.
shootstraight57
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I made a coffee table and end table that has a lift up top that hides either an AR, shotgun or handguns!
Could be. Why would hat matter?
Certainly.
I think you are referring to home invasions. They are classified as burglaries.
Most burglars tell us that they prefer entering an unoccupied house. Sometimes they do enter occupied residences, by mistake or on purpose. That can end in tragedy--and it has.
Alrighty then.
One's odds of being the victim of a violent crime are very low, on average. That fact does not influence me to do anything differently. It's not the odds, it's the stakes.
Might help, might not. Your guns could be gone before they arrive.
Our house has never been burglarized in our absence, but home invaders have come in while I was at home--and armed.
I don't how one would know that, but even it it is true, it is not very meaningful.
No, I never have and most likely never will. I don't live by the gun like many here. I have too many kiddos running in and out of the house to increase the risk of one of them finding something when statistically speaking my door simply probably won't get kicked in while I'm home. We don't have roving bands of thugs here. I know some places do, but needing multiple weapons stashed in order to beat back the horde or me being caught literally with my pants off and needing a gun are so infinitesimally small that I refuse to give them more than a passing "what-if" fantasy thought.
Doors all lock. Cameras all record to the cloud. Smart phone gets all the data. Nothing worth stealing in my house beyond a $500 TV and an Xbox. My guns are worth more, thus they are secured in a locked location far away from where criminals will most likely go in a smash and grab (going back to the blaring alarm and obvious signs of home security). My security is less for protecting my property and more for peace of mind when my daughter is home by herself. Not to monitor and check on HER actions, but I like knowing when she's coming in from school. I also have a backyard pool. I like having the camera on it should anyone hop the locked fence and hotwire the electric cover to go for a swim and get hurt. I'm more afraid of civil ramifications than I am bodily harm.
Here's how I envision a probable break in altercation: Incredibly unlikely door kick-in while I am awake and dressed. That includes pistol/revolver on my person. So, I'm armed and the alarm is going nuts. I don't "dress down" in the evening. I don't even take off my boots until I climb into bed, so whatever I EDC is on my person from 6am to 10pm. Number two: Awoken to break in while we are in bed late night. By this point, alarm is tripped. Movement monitored on the cameras via the phones, security company has been notified, wife and daughter sheltered, and I post at the top of my stairs with 9 rounds of 00 buck to make sure no one comes up. They can have ANYTHING downstairs. The family is all upstairs. No need for weapons stashed, just the ones at the ready for such situations. Between the alarm and wanting to get out away from it, I feel pretty good having the high ground and a reasonable amount of firepower to keep all that unpleasantness downstairs. Leaving a loaded gun supposedly hidden only potentially increases the threat to my family if the guy breaking in has a crowbar and a bad attitude, now he has a 12 gauge and a bad attitude with maybe some increased confidence.
Doors all lock. Cameras all record to the cloud. Smart phone gets all the data. Nothing worth stealing in my house beyond a $500 TV and an Xbox. My guns are worth more, thus they are secured in a locked location far away from where criminals will most likely go in a smash and grab (going back to the blaring alarm and obvious signs of home security). My security is less for protecting my property and more for peace of mind when my daughter is home by herself. Not to monitor and check on HER actions, but I like knowing when she's coming in from school. I also have a backyard pool. I like having the camera on it should anyone hop the locked fence and hotwire the electric cover to go for a swim and get hurt. I'm more afraid of civil ramifications than I am bodily harm.
Here's how I envision a probable break in altercation: Incredibly unlikely door kick-in while I am awake and dressed. That includes pistol/revolver on my person. So, I'm armed and the alarm is going nuts. I don't "dress down" in the evening. I don't even take off my boots until I climb into bed, so whatever I EDC is on my person from 6am to 10pm. Number two: Awoken to break in while we are in bed late night. By this point, alarm is tripped. Movement monitored on the cameras via the phones, security company has been notified, wife and daughter sheltered, and I post at the top of my stairs with 9 rounds of 00 buck to make sure no one comes up. They can have ANYTHING downstairs. The family is all upstairs. No need for weapons stashed, just the ones at the ready for such situations. Between the alarm and wanting to get out away from it, I feel pretty good having the high ground and a reasonable amount of firepower to keep all that unpleasantness downstairs. Leaving a loaded gun supposedly hidden only potentially increases the threat to my family if the guy breaking in has a crowbar and a bad attitude, now he has a 12 gauge and a bad attitude with maybe some increased confidence.
A police officer told me this. Do a test. Take a training gun. If you can't afford one, go get a kid's plastic pellet gun. Put in a place you stash. Have a buddy or partner, with a training gun, come through or open the front or back door with the gun and come to 'shoot' you. See if you can get the gun. Try various starting positions that you normally take. Sitting at the tv, computer, cooking, in the basement, whatever.
You would be surprised at how quickly the opponent is on you and you can't get the gun.
You would be surprised at how quickly the opponent is on you and you can't get the gun.
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whughett
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Lots of variables, we control what we can and rely on fate or god for the rest. Manifest destiny.
WheelGunMan
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My carry gun is on me or within easy reach 24/7. If I go somewhere where it is not allowed I put it in a safe.
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