What do you guys use for home defense?

[Arkansas_Ranger]

Mossy 500 stoked with Aguilla 12 ga shorty buck shot. And a sword! Depends on how they are armed and how pissed off I am when they disturb my beauty sleep.

It happened recently.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/16...s-burglar.html

[xj2000]

I keep my 12 gauge pump loaded for intruders. There's usually a glock on hand also.

[hunter63]

Lots of black labs, ('course the bad guys would probably trip over them in the dark).
12 ga 870, 00 buck, 357 wheel gun, back up.
Various other "assets" stashed here and there.

[wildWoman]

Solitude...

[Geronimo!]

Mossberg 500 when I'm home. I Don't bring it with to university. The only defense I need to worry about here is my beer fridge and a locked door usually does the trick.

[Capt]

I have a 7/8 in dowel rod in the track of the sliding door, fits nicely in my hand.

[Old GI]

A significant improvement has been added at the ranch. An 80 pound (and growing) black brindle English Mastiff just showed up and after a suitable period of trying to find the owner, we adopted said anti-intruder system. He's quite lovable and VERY protective.

[BENESSE]

We have a doorman 24/7 and you can't get past him without giving your vital statistics. Then he phones up to check if indeed we're expecting the said visitor.
If yes, then he gets taken up by a manned elevator. If it's a delivery, the elevator man waits until the delivery is made and takes down the delivery person. There are other security procedures but these are the basics.

I feel safer in my NYC apt. than anywhere else I've ever been, and I've been around.

[Swamprat1958]

More importantly, I have a GREAT place where I can dispose the bodies!

Me too, alligators are great at removing all traces of evidence.

I have a 12 gauge 870, a .357 and if TSRHTF a Bulgarian AK variant.

[trax]

We have a doorman 24/7 and you can't get past him without giving your vital statistics. Then he phones up to check if indeed we're expecting the said visitor.
If yes, then he gets taken up by a manned elevator. If it's a delivery, the elevator man waits until the delivery is made and takes down the delivery person. There are other security procedures but these are the basics.

I feel safer in my NYC apt. than anywhere else I've ever been, and I've been around.

I'm not meaning to be critical here, but I gotta say....I'd feel imprisoned.

[BENESSE]

I'm not meaning to be critical here, but I gotta say....I'd feel imprisoned.

No more than having to sleep with a a few guns by my side at all times.
Considering where I live, it just makes sense.

[2dumb2kwit]

I feel safer in my NYC apt. than anywhere else I've ever been, and I've been around.

I don't know if I'd be tellin' everybody that. LOL

[BENESSE]

I don't know if I'd be tellin' everybody that. LOL

I knew that if anyone pounced on that one it would be you.
In fact, I considered expressing it a bit differently but thought...nah, let's see
who bites.

[2dumb2kwit]

I knew that if anyone pounced on that one it would be you.
In fact, I considered expressing it a bit differently but thought...nah, let's see
who bites.

I confess.......I'm easy. (But only for you! LOL)

[BENESSE]

I confess.......I'm easy. (But only for you! LOL)

Maybe you should try playing hard to get...or is it easy to forget?
Yeah, I think the latter.

[Ole WV Coot]

I have lived in a few cities with stupid firearm laws and NYC was one of them. My opinion was like a man I worked with. We were looking out the locked, barred door watching the locals go by and he remarked it was like a zoo only we were in a cage and the animals were outside. That's the way I felt when I lived in an apt. for a few years, and never again. I slept with a rifle some and it felt comfortable.

[2dumb2kwit]

Maybe you should try playing hard to get...or is it easy to forget?
Yeah, I think the latter.

Dang....I've been called a lot of things, but that's the first time I've ever been called "easy to forget". That kinda hurt. LOL

[BENESSE]

... he remarked it was like a zoo only we were in a cage and the animals were outside.

It does feel like that sometimes but then I've been in "the sticks" where you can't tell the difference.
Now that's scary to me.

[BENESSE]

Dang....I've been called a lot of things, but that's the first time I've ever been called "easy to forget". That kinda hurt. LOL

No, I said you should TRY playing easy to forget.
Who wants to remember a poke in the eye with a sharp stick?

[Mtnman Mike]

I live half the year in a city, Greeley, CO, so have deadbolt locks and a gun or two. Plus walking around, it is nice to carry pepper spray for bothersome dogs - 2 and 4 legged ones.

From June to Nov. I am in southern Wyoming on my mtn retreat, where I have an electric wire fence which may or may not be turned on. Deer, bears etc. go under it easily. Cattle know what it is and stay away as well as most humans.

I have some alarms, such as a driveway alarm. I have no dog, for living like I do, in a city then about half the year in and near wilderness, dogs are too much trouble. They could get lost, they chase wildlife which I love to see up close etc. Not able to see much wildlife with a dog around.

I never feel as free or as safe as I do on my mtn place, even with bears etc. roaming around. I also sleep much better up there than in the city.

I live mostly in tents on my mtn place but in cold weather and in case of emergency, I do have an underground storage cellar/bunker, which here are the two doors in the pics. First the black heavy steel front door and the back trap door >