you have experienced multiple attempted and successful home invasions? Im guessing you mean as law enforcement or something along those lines rather than your home having such invasions. If not, and i never said this before, but its time to move.
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you have experienced multiple attempted and successful home invasions? Im guessing you mean as law enforcement or something along those lines rather than your home having such invasions. If not, and i never said this before, but its time to move.
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I don't worry about it. My hillbilly homemade flatbed pickup truck is out front - it looks like the family from the Grapes of Wrath must live here. The dogs bark like crazy. When they are outside they kill every animal that ventures into our backyard. It would be very strange indeed for someone to try to break through locked doors or windows, and be mauled by savage dogs, in order to enter a house that is extremely unlikely to contain anything of value. That being said, I am still no more than two or three seconds away from a loaded handgun, usually right next to one. All in all I am satisfied with our home security.
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I felt silly in the past carrying in the house, until we had a number of break ins on our block during daytime hours, even when neighbors were home. With a 10 year old who frequently has friends over keeping guns unlocking around the house is not an option. I now leave on whatever I carried that day when I'm at home.
JR24
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I live in meth country and desperate methheads do crazy things!
Hardtarget
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I do carry at home...like right now. My mindset is...The bad guys have cars and go where they want. So, I carry. Wife expects it. Been like this since '73.
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tkroenlein
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Yes. CM9 in pocket. I buy lounging shorts with pockets just for this reason.
Cocked & Locked
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Uhh...what are these lounging shorts of which you speak?
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I carry most of the time at home, in part because it's so easy to do so with some of the micro .380's out there. My micro .380 is a Ruger LCP, original version, and it's a fine gun. So unobtrusive, I rarely think about it being there. I used to carry a .38 revolver - J frame size, more or less - at home, but even those are big enough to make me feel like I'm "on duty" all of the time, and I don't really like that sort of feel with a handgun.
The probability of a home invasion is low, of course, but the probability of needing one while in public is pretty low, too, so who's to say what is being overly diligent or not? When carrying even J frame revolvers at home, I'll tend to stop because they start getting inconvenient. Not the LCP.
The probability of a home invasion is low, of course, but the probability of needing one while in public is pretty low, too, so who's to say what is being overly diligent or not? When carrying even J frame revolvers at home, I'll tend to stop because they start getting inconvenient. Not the LCP.
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I want to know too
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I wish I could tell you a special brand, but I can't. I go to the shorts section at Wally World and look for shorts that are light enough to wear around the house before bedtime. I've had many with elastic and/or a draw string. Wearing a pair of Faded Glory branded shorts right now.
Guess again.
One attempted forced entry deterred, one forced entry, one VCA walked in through a door that was momentarily unlocked; Two locations.
To where would one move if one lives in a very good neighborhood? What would it accomplish?
Cocked & Locked
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What is a VCA ?
Violent Criminal Actor ?
http://www.acronymfinder.com/Violent-Criminal-Actor-(law-enforcement)-(VCA).html
http://www.acronymfinder.com/Violent-Criminal-Actor-(law-enforcement)-(VCA).html
Yep. In this case, an unwelcome visitor who had followed someone else into the house and knocked her down and threatened to kill several people.
Came at me with an improvised weapon.
Had arrived in an automobile, probably from a bar.
Cocked & Locked
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The stuff I don't know...just in this thread 
Melting Point Rule
Lounging Shorts
VCA
Melting Point Rule
Lounging Shorts
VCA
MedWheeler
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I had a MHB walk in through an unlocked door once.
(MHB: Mistaken Hot Blonde. She was looking for another house on my block that had a green Jeep identical to mine parked out front, and had been told to look for it.)
(MHB: Mistaken Hot Blonde. She was looking for another house on my block that had a green Jeep identical to mine parked out front, and had been told to look for it.)
chaim
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I am into double edged safety razors (think, the kind of razor all our grandfathers used). Many of the modern ones are made of plated (usually chrome plated) ZAMAK. Once the plating chips or cracks and moisture can get through to the Zamak, they don't last long. On some brands, the Zamak screw usually loses plating first and within a year or two of regular use the screw breaks due to the Zamak corroding. When Zamak corrodes, it basically starts disintegrating. Not a material I'd want on a handgun that was going to see a lot of humidity.
For a bathroom gun, I'd go for a polymer gun with a slide finished in a rust inhibiting finish, stainless, or aluminum. I'd also frequently wipe the gun down and apply a fresh coat of oil. When/if it ever starts to rust, take care of the rust the same as you would on any other gun. Basically treat it as you would a carry gun in a humid environment and you'll probably be fine.
where do you live? that is an incredible run of unfortunate luck. I would carry all the time if I had your experiences. I have lived in new york city itself for 60 years, in 3 different apartments, no doorman nor extraordinary security and have never had a burglary or attempted forced entry.
chaim
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It doesn't sound that unreasonable to me. He said that was since 1964. Home invasions used to be just called "break ins" (now if people are home we say it was a home invasion, back in the day I don't remember a differentiation in what it was called if people were home or not). While it is possible to have none (like you have) over an extended time frame, 2 or 3 isn't all that unusual in that kind of time frame either. In the neighborhood I lived in for my first 6 years, our house got broken into once (luckily no one was home, we were out of town). In the neighborhood I grew up in, in one of the most affluent counties in the country, my parents never got broken into, but my best friend (a couple houses away) did, and over the 40 years my parents lived there, two or three other houses nearby were broken into (no one home, but that could have been different). Many friends have had homes broken into, one or two when they were home. I haven't had a break in myself, but I've had some scares (break ins and home invasions within my apartment complex, some guys trying to get in while I was there but scared off when I yelled at them through the door, some people who got angry when I had a party and I kicked them out because they weren't invited), and I've mostly lived in good neighborhoods.
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I have lived in four places since 1964. One of the incidents occurred in a rental cabin outside of Estes Park, CO.
Each incident turned out fine.
I could not carry outdoors until some years ago. I did not carry at home until eight or nine years go.
JeffG
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We, as human beings, get used to things going well, and come to think that smooth sailing is normal.
In reality, our existence is a string of unpredictable, sometimes bad or catastrophic events, interspersed with uneventful time.
For me, rather than having the , "Oh my God!" panic response to "**** going down", I prefer the , "OK... Yep, here it comes, 'been expecting something like this..." outlook. It reduces my time reaction of, "Is this really happening?", and helps me get busy solving it.
Sorry if that's a little deep.
In reality, our existence is a string of unpredictable, sometimes bad or catastrophic events, interspersed with uneventful time.
For me, rather than having the , "Oh my God!" panic response to "**** going down", I prefer the , "OK... Yep, here it comes, 'been expecting something like this..." outlook. It reduces my time reaction of, "Is this really happening?", and helps me get busy solving it.
Sorry if that's a little deep.
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No but I can reach my house pistol, in my safe room (set up that way, it's my bedroom) and not be cut off, fast. Live rural, have dogs for alert. Bedroom windows not a tempting/easy entry point and they wouldnt do so without knowing the house layout.
House pistol lives on a shelf on bedside table.
House pistol lives on a shelf on bedside table.
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Ks5shooter
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Yep....home invasions don't just happen in the city. The city come to the nice areas to make withdraws. I have a 2 car garage and a 900 sf pole barn ,always appears no one is home. Im packin
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Blkhrt13
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