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To: Tench_Coxe

“safe storage of weapons”

In the case of a home invasion, it is only 20 feet (about four seconds travel time) from my back door to my bedroom.


6 posted on 01/24/2023 9:18:12 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

Yep and those 4 seconds a good breach team will have you either face down or face down and bleeding out. Fast and violent is how it’s done. And the average home owner will not do well in the face of that. If you don’t have enough situational awareness of what’s going on outside and you don’t have a weapon on you, not in the night stand, you have already lost. If someone or a group of someone’s wants to hit a house they aren’t going to announce themselves like the cops have to do...or at least they are supposed to.

Now your average thug is a different story. They aren’t expecting anybody to fight back and they probably can’t hit the broad side of a barn with a handgun. That’s where having a short barrel shotgun comes in real handy. You keep it stashed by the front door area and #4 buck is very lethal to the human body. I prefer that over a handgun for the short distance’s you are dealing with in a house.

Let’s assume you are a preper. Somebody figures out what you have stashed away. And if people are desperate they will just drive a truck or some other vehicle thru the front of your house, come out shooting, and the preper is done. Unless you have spent hours, days and 10K worth of ammo practicing like the Delta folks or SEALs do you won’t have that level of skill to respond violently and to not miss. Situational stress, adrenaline will cause misses, hesitation, and so on. Having a 13rnd magazine doesn’t do much good if you can hit anything with those 13rnds.

So all those guns and all that food and ammo won’t do anybody a bit of good if they are dead...fact.

Just my opinions...


17 posted on 01/24/2023 9:41:54 AM PST by oldguy1776
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