Poll on Allocating Funds

[GAgunLAWbooklet]

There's already a serious thread about body armor in the Tactics and Training forum.
Here, I want to do this poll, as more of a "spit and whistle" chat that's not serious.

IF YOU HAD ONLY $3000 to spend on weapons, armor, and other gear to prepare to defend your home from a criminal "home invasion" type robbery, how would you allocate it?


ASSUME you have nothing right now. No guns, no unusual or extraordinary weapons or tools, no hardened locks on your doors and door frames, no dogs, etc.

How to you spend 3 grand to keep your family safe?

 

[BIKER13]

one weapon and the rest in ammo.

 

[Kahrnut]

Buy 3 'custom' Glucks on here.

 

[BIKER13]

Buy 1 'custom' Glucks on here.

 

[palmettomoon]

Use the $3,000 to move to a better neighborhood.

 

[fast306stang]

I'd put up a "No cops allowed" sign.













Any LEO on here, please know I'm kidding...

 

[the_great_white]

Buy $3000 worth of tacos. That'll stop any home intruder. They'll be mesmerized by the massive pile of tacos and will still be sitting there eating them when the cops show up.

 

[Radar363]

A training class that covers low-light conditions and a $500 gun with a decent white light should be an option

 

[GAgunLAWbooklet]

Imagine (hypothetical) this guy owns 15 guns.

If you ask him why he owns them, he says 3 are for hunting only, and they are totally sporting in character. Nothing tactical or defensive about them.

But 12 of his guns are defensive weapons. AR rifle, AK rifle, 8-shot combat shotgun, Taurus Judge, Rossi .38 snubby, Llama 9mm copy of 1911, Three (3) Mosin M44 carbines (one for himself, one for wife, one for teenage son, all for zombie defense / survival scenarios), S&W SV40, Hi-Point 380, and a Savage bolt action .308 tricked out as a sniper-countersniper rifle. And he's got a thousand rounds of ammo and a dozen magazines for each gun that uses detachable mags.

With 12 combat weapons, he should be safe, right?

But he lives in a trailer. Anybody could peel open his locked door with just a big screwdriver.

The walls of his home wouldn't stop a modern break-barrel pellet gun, much less a bullet from any real firearm.

No body armor. Nothing in his home counts as 'cover' in case of a gunfight. At the most, it's concealment.

He's got no alarm system.

No safe. All his guns are under his pillow, under his bed, in his sock drawer, or propped in the corner of his closet.


He's got a dog, so that's both an early warning system and a "weapon" of sorts.

In the big picture, how "safe" is he? How much safer would he be if he sold some of those guns and spent the money on other aspects of safety and security?

 

[2canSam]

If that trailer door opens to the inside, kicking them in is a breeze. And bird/skeet load will go through walls. 45 auto will too. I've seen this myself.
Paul Harrell does a great test on wall penetration with different guns on YouTube. Check him out.