Traded for a gun safe

[safeinOhio]

Thought it'd be a good idea. Not in a high crime area, but I do live just off the interstate. No kids in the house. Just thought it'd be a good idea. So, I hand truck into the walk in closet in my bedroom. Was thinking that some crooks just carry away the safe, so I spend $100 at Lowe's for a electric combo door latch and add some 3 inch screws to the hinges and strikers. It was already a heavy 6 panel door.
Real proud of all my effort and then I think, if anyone broke in while I was home and in bed I could just grab the phone by the bed and head into the closet, lock the door and call up the law. If they try to kick in the door, I'm in there with 3 hand guns and a half dozen shot guns and rifles and a good amount of ammo. Everything is insured, I don't have to shoot any one and I'm safe.

[rwheeler31]

1. Well ya know you have to do some things.

Keep working.

[jeepnstein]

2. Not a bad plan really...

Put a phone jack in the closet and keep a phone in there at all times. Or put your cell phone charger in there so your phone is in there at night. It's devilishly hard to attack someone who is barricaded. Make them earn it.

You might consider adding some reinforcement to the closet walls. I knew a guy who did his with 1/2 inch steel plate for that very reason.

You can replace stuff. Life is far more precious.

[spin]

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[safeinOhio]

4. Yep, safe room

it all started when I moved a safe in there.
Only cost about a hundred bucks. The lock, press 4 buttons and your in, and a dozen 10x3 wood screws.
Then I kept thinking. If some one broke in while I wasn't home they'd think there was something valuable in the room because of the lock. So, if I get a couple more locks like that and do more rooms, they'll go nuts.

Any way you are right it is a great idea for everyone that wants to be safe at home. Doesn't matter if you have a gun or not. The last thing you'd ever want to do is shoot some one when you don't have to.

[spin]

8. If I did that in my home, it would remind me...

of the place I used to work before I retired.

God, I was glad to get out of that place. Thirty seven years of working in rooms without windows with keypads to open the doors

[provis99]

5. you might not have time to unlock a gun safe.

Wouldn't it just be better to sleep with a loaded gun under your pillow, in case twenty gangbangers rush your house at night?

[safeinOhio]

6. I'd have lots of time to open the gun

safe once I shut the closet door, which would only take a second or two. 20 gangbangers in my little village of 130 people would cause a big stir. When farmer Jones cow got loose everyone was in their yard.

[burrfoot]

7. well done

In a similar boat- not in a high crime area and no kids yet, but it's always better to be safe then sorry.

(sorry, that was not intentional wordplay)