I've decided to illustrate for those who aren't so security-minded some methods to improve the safety of your home against intruders.

For starters, living above the ground level is a smart move. It limits points of entry easily available to a potential intruder. Granted, a ladder may be employed, but that requires a greater risk on the part of the threat, as they are more likely to be noticed and heard.

The second floor of an apartment building, or a home built on piers, provide this limited access.

Most entry doors are simply not strong enough to withstand a battering. The locks usually fail first. For this reason, more locks should be added, spreading the load across more point along the door frame, which reduces the likelihood of a break-in through the door. It is also a very good idea to use #10-3" screws to anchor the door hinges through the jamb and into solid framing, as well as countersinking the same #10 screws above and below primary locks, such as the deadbolt.

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Part of choosing our unit was the direct view of the front door from our bedroom. This floorplan provides me with a predetermined path that an intruder is most likely to follow, though they could enter through other, less desirable, points.

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I ALWAYS have a loaded weapon ready, along with a light and a cell phone. If it's not on my hip, it's within reach.

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I only need the pistol long enough to retrieve the shotgun, which is kept accessible, though not visible.

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I also keep a secondary pistol at hand, because...well, it can't hurt.

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these work pretty good as well less than $20.00 at Lowe's
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plus this is a nice addition
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in thanks for the chance .. :D

Oh yeah, the door is reinforced steel, and those 3" screws go through the backing plates for the strikeplates, but that's SOP for installing door locks.

You can put all the locks you want on the knob side. When we kick a door, if it doesnt go quickly on the knob side, we go for the hinge side. Putting LONG screws in the hinge side can really help.

You can put all the locks you want on the knob side. When we kick a door, if it doesnt go quickly on the knob side, we go for the hinge side. Putting LONG screws in the hinge side can really help.

Each hinge gets 2 #10-3" screws into framing. Securing only one side of the door frame doesn't do much. I figure that the locks and screws are there to delay forced entry just long enough so that I will be alerted and able to get my weapon ready. I know they'll fail. I'm hoping to get 10-15 seconds out of them (assuming it's anyone but a SWAT entry team with a battering ram).

(assuming it's anyone but a SWAT entry team with a battering ram).

Unless they are using explosive entry. :flipoff2:

Unless they are using explosive entry. :flipoff2:

If the SWAT team is forcing their way into my house, I've got problems.

If the SWAT team is forcing their way into my house, I've got problems.

Or they have the wrong house and are gunning for you.

If the SWAT team is forcing their way into my house, I've got problems.

Just be prepared to take multiple .338 Lapua shots in the back. :flipoff2:

Just be prepared to take multiple .338 Lapua shots in the back. :flipoff2:

But thats why I have two extra large sapi plate in the back pocket of my vest.

i have a claymore covering each entrance to my house set up with a trip wire. i also have a remote trigger in my safe room in case i need to detonate them remotely. i have several miniguns mounted throughout the house with electronic motion sensitive aiming devices. these are enabled when i go to bed or am away from the house. they also have thermal imaging cameras attached to them with monitors in my safe room and can be operated remotely from there.

for armor, my walls are lined with 1" ar500 steel plate. the doors are a combination of 3/8" ar500 plate and ceramic to keep the weight down. all windows are 3" thick polycarbonate. large trees are strategically placed around the house prevent armored vehicles from getting close to the house. there are several claymores placed around the exterior of the house and the approach with remote triggers located in the safe room. the entire property is covered by thermal imaging cameras. several m2 machine guns are also strategically located around the property that have been modified with thermal imaging cameras and remote triggers. they are loaded with mk211 rounds.

i have a small security force of 20 men, most of which are ex-seals or other spec-ops personnel. they patrol the property in 4 armored suburbans. i let them decide what they need for weaponry. they supply their gear as they feel needed. the security force trains almost constantly, practicing scenarios that may become reality.

that is the basics of my home defence. there is quite a bit more but most of it is classified...

that and i am tired and need to go to bed.

i have a claymore covering each entrance to my house set up with a trip wire. i also have a remote trigger in my safe room in case i need to detonate them remotely. i have several miniguns mounted throughout the house with electronic motion sensitive aiming devices. these are enabled when i go to bed or am away from the house. they also have thermal imaging cameras attached to them with monitors in my safe room and can be operated remotely from there.

for armor, my walls are lined with 1" ar500 steel plate. the doors are a combination of 3/8" ar500 plate and ceramic to keep the weight down. all windows are 3" thick polycarbonate. large trees are strategically placed around the house prevent armored vehicles from getting close to the house. there are several claymores placed around the exterior of the house and the approach with remote triggers located in the safe room. the entire property is covered by thermal imaging cameras. several m2 machine guns are also strategically located around the property that have been modified with thermal imaging cameras and remote triggers. they are loaded with mk211 rounds.

i have a small security force of 20 men, most of which are ex-seals or other spec-ops personnel. they patrol the property in 4 armored suburbans. i let them decide what they need for weaponry. they supply their gear as they feel needed. the security force trains almost constantly, practicing scenarios that may become reality.

that is the basics of my home defence. there is quite a bit more but most of it is classified...

that and i am tired and need to go to bed.

:laughing: You were up late last night :flipoff2:

I just have a pistol hidden in every nook and cranny of my house. I sleep with three, and keep extra mags up my ass for dual purpose....comfort and piece of mind

My duty weapon with an m3 light stays in the dresser with my surefire in case the threat is not.

All other firearms are locked in my safe, I have a mag loaded with tru federal 55 grain and my other AR's in the safe.

i have a claymore covering each entrance to my house set up with a trip wire. i also have a remote trigger in my safe room in case i need to detonate them remotely. i have several miniguns mounted throughout the house with electronic motion sensitive aiming devices. these are enabled when i go to bed or am away from the house. they also have thermal imaging cameras attached to them with monitors in my safe room and can be operated remotely from there.

for armor, my walls are lined with 1" ar500 steel plate. the doors are a combination of 3/8" ar500 plate and ceramic to keep the weight down. all windows are 3" thick polycarbonate. large trees are strategically placed around the house prevent armored vehicles from getting close to the house. there are several claymores placed around the exterior of the house and the approach with remote triggers located in the safe room. the entire property is covered by thermal imaging cameras. several m2 machine guns are also strategically located around the property that have been modified with thermal imaging cameras and remote triggers. they are loaded with mk211 rounds.

i have a small security force of 20 men, most of which are ex-seals or other spec-ops personnel. they patrol the property in 4 armored suburbans. i let them decide what they need for weaponry. they supply their gear as they feel needed. the security force trains almost constantly, practicing scenarios that may become reality.

that is the basics of my home defence. there is quite a bit more but most of it is classified...

that and i am tired and need to go to bed.




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I've got a moat that helps keep the black knight at bay. :flipoff2:

Step #1: Live in the Boonies

Step #2: Be as poor as possible, nothing to steal means no burgleries.

Step #3: Take any FREE vehicle and stack them one up, one down creating large steel burms with "Coridores of DeAtH" and elivated one-way fighting positions.

Step #4: Take any FREE Coon/Hound/Rot mix dog and let them loose in your Dead Car Graveyard to eat rats and intruders.

Step #5: Joing a major gang like the Nation or Panthers(color/race aproperiate. Dont mess this step up kids :shaking:). This way you will always have a few people over incase sombody wants to starts some shit!



OR

Dont live in a shithole, make sure your doors are secure, your REAL valuables are in a safe, and be aware of your suroundings. Paranoid behaviour just screws with you.

Laugh all you fuckers want but some day sooner or later you will question the security of your home :flipoff2:

2 of my exterior doors are mostly glass and the first thing I noticed is when I moved in is that they had "traditional" deadbolts with the turn paddle installed in them. This is a common overlooked stupidity. I replaced them with keyed inside AND out deadbolts. the front door has HUGE ass screws in the hinges and strike plates and a metal reinforcement plate on the deadbolt because it is a strait run to the door if anyone wanted to shoulder breach it.

My garage doors all have 1/2" thick sliding bolt locks on the main doors that slide into a double stud. The front door of the garage has one as well and a locking knob. ALL the windows in the garage are covered in that clear/crystal carpet runner stuff that is hung like curtains. This allows light in but you can not see into the garage at all. it also keeps grinding sparks and weld spatter from fucking up the glass :laughing:

Last night I heard a "non-cat" noise in the house and went and investigated. My XD45 and 40 rounds of ammo are in the nightstand with a doc-built 3watt LED pistol light. There was nothing in the house but cats attacking a x-mass tree (no i did not shoot them) but I still checked all rooms.
All the rooms dump into a main hallway so you can see pretty much the entire length of the house.

The pistol is to get me to the safe at the end of the hall. If I get to the safe you are pretty well fucked :laughing:

I aint knockin at all, just thought Roberts post was funny as hell. I have the exact type of setup in my house. Light, cell and pistol to get me to the safe. After that, Zombie Ninja time bitches! :flipoff2:

I usually keep an unloaded pistol in my nightstand with a mag next to it. The rest of my guns are sometimes in my closet with ammo being stored in the garage, or maybe the basement. I almost always remember to lock my front and back door. I rarely forget to set the alarm when I leave the house. I think all my windows are locked. I do have security lighting installed around my house that I don't like to pay for the electricity to keep them on. The saddest thing about all this is that I'm probably the hardest target in my neighborhood.

The odds of my house getting invaded while I am home are about the same as me winning the powerball. I don't let my chances of becoming a millionaire keep me up at night either.

The odds of my house getting invaded while I am home are about the same as me winning the powerball. I don't let my chances of becoming a millionaire keep me up at night either.

I won the fucking lottery then

This is a common overlooked stupidity. I replaced them with keyed inside AND out deadbolts.


Actually not stupid at all, in case of a fire or similar evacuation emergency being able to get out easily is also a necessity. It's not all about keeping intruders from breaking in. Sure you can get out windows but if there are children in the house they might be the ones getting out and going for help.

I have multiple child safety gates through out the house, including one at the bottom and one at the top of the stairs. If you have ever seen these before you know that they can be a real pain in the ass to open even with all the lights on.
House entries are all alarmed, plus motion detectors inside.
Someone will have a hard time getting to the top of the stairs before I am ready for them.
My 1911 is on me all the time. Until I go to bed and then its inside my pistol safe.
We each have a pistol safe on our side of the bed and each has a PT92F with a rail mounted light and 3 mags (50rds) of federal.
I am building a Saiga as my house gun. After I get my SOT its going to have a 12"bbl with a brake. Rail mounted light and CompML3. 7 10rd mags loaded with 3" slugs. :evil:

Actually not stupid at all, in case of a fire or similar evacuation emergency being able to get out easily is also a necessity. It's not all about keeping intruders from breaking in. Sure you can get out windows but if there are children in the house they might be the ones getting out and going for help.

same dumb answer I got from Bev :flipoff2:

my reply: Throw a fucking chair or whatever THROUGH THE FUCKING GLASS DOOR!!
:shaking:

Actually not stupid at all, in case of a fire or similar evacuation emergency being able to get out easily is also a necessity. It's not all about keeping intruders from breaking in. Sure you can get out windows but if there are children in the house they might be the ones getting out and going for help.

That's why most people leave the key in them. :shaking::shaking:

The only time my doors aren't locked are when people are passing through them.

I've usually got my AR next to the dresser...Mag in, bolt closed on empty chamber. 9 other mags loaded in the closet, and about 1k rds of 5.56 on a shelf in the closet. If I get to my closet, so many people are getting fucked up. :laughing:

1911 behine my headboard..... 12 gauge mounted to the wall above my head (you cant see it) my bedroom is always locked and my front and back door is ussually too....

Havent taken the thought to what my door is screwed in with or that kinda thing:shaking: but my rear door is sliding glass.. i figure I'll hear that.... i hope

same dumb answer I got from Bev :flipoff2:

my reply: Throw a fucking chair or whatever THROUGH THE FUCKING GLASS DOOR!!
:shaking:


My comment was along the lines of children evacuating, the average 5-6 year old can easily open a deadlock and get out of a door, they cannot chuck a chair through the window.

That's why most people leave the key in them. :shaking::shaking:

I must be retarded. Why do you want keyed dead locks instead of turn handles?

I must be retarded. Why do you want keyed dead locks instead of turn handles?

A traditional deadbolt or turnbolt is ineffective when it's located within reach of a broken window. A heavy, properly installed door with a lite in it (or sidelites) provides access to the lock when the glass is broken. A keyed lock requires you to possess the key to open the lock, whether you break the glass or not. Lites typically are big enough to fit an arm through, but not a torso.

we have the knob deadbolts on all entry doors- including the 2 with large glass ovals in them.

We lock both the deadbolts and the entry knob.

There's no way someone is smaching that glass easily on either door, and there's no way they can smash that glass, clear room for their arm, and unlock BOTH locks without me already being out of bed and waiting for them.

This ignores that the dogs would have let me know someone was there well in advance - especially if they were inside at the time someone tried to break in.


I've got 2 small kids in the house, and they know how to unlock the doors to get out if mommy and daddy can't do it for them. there's no way I'm locking them in a deat trap where they have to locate a key to get out of my house in case of an emergency.

out in the country nice and quiet, so the dogs can track you down real easy,

if you make it to the house, dead bolts with the doors well screwed to the 2X4 in the walls, along with steel screen doors, all dead bolted, windows up were you need a ladder to reach then (not a slab house).
at bed side is a 45 with xtra mags, (6), and a .40 cal with extra mags and a shotgun with plenty of reloads close at hand,

but if i get to the "play" room well i have a wide choice of items, from a little 22 revolver, up to a 11mm rifle, :mr-t:single shot to semi auto (sorry i live in the prk) :eek:close quaters action to looong range shots:smokin:

if the batfabcdefgh... trys to do my house by "mistake"...sure they will take me out as planed, but i will not go alone.:flipoff2:


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After that, Zombie Ninja time bitches! :flipoff2:

Ha Ha!

Once the zombies get by the 3" screws in the door and all the kids' toys scattered all over the floor (not likely) they get to meet my wifey-poo and her Remington Defender. Don't mess with a momma when the cubs are around. Oh, and for clean-up work there's the Glock 22 & Glock 27.:D