So, do you keep any "throw-downs" around the house?

[GunGoBoom]

so that, in the event you are burglarized, the thiefs have some easy pickins to take, and therefore will be less likely to feel the need/urge to try to crack into the safe, since they have *something* to take to the pawn shop? I keep my muzzleloader, an old milsurp, an air rifle, my home defense shotgun, and my two main carry pistols out of the safe as my potential "throw-downs" (if I'm not home, one of the two carry guns is laying around). The fact that the safes are full also has a wee bit to do with it as well.

 

[boofus]

In light of the situation in NO, I might pick up a HiPoint 9mm or something to give to the jackboots to make them go away.

 

[JamisJockey]

Someone is either going to be interested in your safe, or they're not. If they have time to look for it, they will.
Watch that show 'it takes a thief'.

 

[RyanM]

I'd probably use a CZ-52 if I had enough stuff that it'd be worth the extra expense. Leave a magazine loaded with Hirtenberger 9mm +P+ next to it. CZ-52s are capable of chambering and firing 9mm with the original barrel. Once.

On the other hand, if Mr. Burglar only takes the gun to a pawn shop, if it's the kind of pawn shop that sells a loaded mag with every purchase and doesn't bother to check serial numbers to see if the gun is stolen, then the buyer most likely deserves what he gets.

 

[Preacherman]

I'd carefully superglue an obstruction into the barrel of your "throw-down" guns - just in case Mr. Thief decides to wait for you to come home and hold you up with it.

"Go on - shoot me! I dare you!"

 

[Chris Rhines]

...and then the housebreaker shoots you, with the 9mm Hi-Point he brought with him, that looks quite similar to the rigged 9mm Hi-Point you left lying around for him.

Oops!

- Chris

 

[Byron Quick]

I've seen a Liberty safe at a store outside of Mobile that thieves had an entire weekend and a well equipped shop to work on. They used heavy drills and ceramic metal cutting saws. They ruined the safe. They didn't open it.

It takes more than the tools and the time. It takes a certain amount of knowledge, also. You would think that with the amount of drilling and cutting they did on it that it would have opened. It didn't.

Now before y'all protest this-I know there are people out there who'll get into your safe with an old rusty can opener-but it wasn't this bunch.

 

[Taurus 66]

No No No ... you see the burglar has his own handgun and you suddenly take interest to it, "WOW!", you exclaim, "I'll trade you this for that!", as you reach in the kitchen drawer and pull out your .454. "Hell, I'll even toss in a box of ammo. What do you say? Do we have a deal?"

 

[AJ Dual]

This is what the Century Arms U-Fix-Em section was made for...

Some days,$200 would buy you more incomplete and broken firearms than a thief could carry.

I like the CZ-52 idea.

Just be sure you let a few trusted people know what you've done. What if you died suddenly in a car-crash, and some friend or family member decided to shoot it?

 

[Mannlicher]

nope. Thats not prudent.

 

[Black Majik]

Why would you leave a firearm out for a thief to steal?

All my guns are registered to me, no one else. I'm definitely not gonna have a gun lying out in the open for anyone to take. Or your gun that can be used against you.

So, my answer is... No.

 

[Moonclip]

I had a friend who kept an Arisaka out for this reason. I read a book by a retired pro thief once too, he reccomended such a thing,leave out a few bucks and some junk jewelry, a lazy thief will grab it and call it a day many times he said.

I have gun safes and somebody is home usually so it is not important to me but I do have a pretty much non functional Spanish ruby 32 auto and a broken Colt Officers model that I sort of have been leaving out for that reason I think subconsiously! I suppose I should put them away.

 

[coonan357]

nope no throw-down guns but have two thrown down guns A MAS and a Lebel

 

[Tom Servo]

I'd carefully superglue an obstruction into the barrel of your "throw-down" guns - just in case Mr. Thief decides to wait for you to come home and hold you up with it

Actually, he might be smart enough to look for obvious obstructions in the barrel. Better to just put a few drops of superglue in there. Should be enough to make the bullet snag somewhere behind the muzzle. Plus the suddenly superheated superglue should wreck the barrel in the process.

I don't have any "throw down" guns, but I've still got an old RG .22 revolver that will only fire about one shot in 13 (yes, it'll pass over the same bullet twice before firing it). The sights are so off that if you sight down the gun, it's actually a good 15-20 degrees left of target. Let a burglar grab that and point it at me

 

[gm]

nope...no need for any but I have upgraded to a wet/dry shop vac to clean up the mess.

 

[No_Brakes23]

I don't have anything like that, but before I could afford a safe, I removed the bolts from my M39s when I put them in the closet.

 

[entropy]

Um, I was raised believing a "throw-down" was a cheap, junky, untraceable hundgun carried in a Baggie in the back of a squad car.... , so the answer is no, I do not, Agent Schmuckatelli. And no, I am not an LEO.

 

[Zundfolge]

...you see the burglar has his own handgun and you suddenly take interest to it...

If I'm home then there's no need for a "throw down" (either as was originally intended in this thread, nor entropy's definition).

BANG

call 911


Colorado law is very good to us when it comes to killing home invaders.


Now if I'm not home, I figure they'll have time to find all the good guns including the cheapo "throw down", so there's not much point.

I read a book by a retired pro thief once too, he reccomended such a thing,leave out a few bucks and some junk jewelry, a lazy thief will grab it and call it a day many times he said.

I could see that working.

Years ago my house was broken into ... they stole a $75 stereo and a $150 TV and left a 1936 Martin 016 , a Peavey Stereo Chorus 400 and an Ibanez 550 alone.

Those two guitars and amp where worth more then every other thing in the house combined.

 

[Working Man]

If he/she wants my stuff.... they'll have to earn it.
Plus if they're working on the safe they might not hear me
walking up behind them.

 

[Missashot]

We only have a couple of guns out ( but concealed) for home defense. I do sort of like the idea of leaving a POS gun out for bait though. It will have to be one of my husband's guns though. I'm not leaving one of my own guns out!
Now, how do I get into his safe? He has enough Colts, He shouldn't miss one or two.....

 

[ckyllo]

on another thread someone said that they put two $50 bills and a bottle of jack daniels with a note that said "take this and get the f!!! out of here. claimed it has work for him on the last time his house got broken into.

had some meth heads (one was my niephew) break into my house about 2 years ago. they bent the tar out of a cheap sentry safe ($300 one with a dial) trying to enter it. put enough pressure to bend the locking bolts and to pull the rear ancher bolts loose. would of been fun to come home and find him pinned to the floor. when they could not get into it they stole my dvd collection and digital camera and other electronic goodies.

as for supplying a bad guy with a useable firearm, NEVER!!!
did like the 9mm +P in a 7.62 tok or cz52. wonder if you could find a cheap 38 revlover and put a 32 barrel on it

 

[Hobie]

What malarkey! I wouldn't give a thief anything but a trip to jail. I'd prefer the morgue but that's not legal. I would only shoot somebody I felt was a threat to life. I would not want to defend leaving the means of his being a threat to life out for him (or her) to use. I do strongly believe that anyone who breaks into my house while I'm there IS a threat to my life. What other reason would they have to come in while I was there?

 

[cookekdjr]

A true "throw-down" piece is for when you shoot a burglar in your home, and discover that even though you were in fear for your life, it turns out he was not armed.
So, you "throw down" a piece next to his body, like a gun or even just a kitchen knife. That way, no one second guesses you about shooting the guy, and you face no criminal charges (you may not have anyway, but the "throw-down" is just insurance).
Its an old cop saying. Wonder why?
-David

 

[Kramer Krazy]

We only have a couple of guns out ( but concealed) for home defense. I do sort of like the idea of leaving a POS gun out for bait though. It will have to be one of my husband's guns though. I'm not leaving one of my own guns out!
Now, how do I get into his safe? He has enough Colts, He shouldn't miss one or two.....

You aren't getting into my safe! We'll just leave your S&W 629 out for the thief....

Actually, since the safe is full, there are a couple of SKSs, two Mosin-Nagants, and two black-powder CVA rifles. There are 2 or 3 handguns around, but not easily found. We need another safe, and then there will only be a handgun or two around........we won't have to worry about anyone breaking into the safes, as it will take at least an hour to get past the junk piled up in front of them just to get to them.