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re: Three armed men invade your home at 2am. What do you do?
Posted on 2/25/15 at 8:00 am to theunknownknight
Posted on 2/25/15 at 8:00 am to theunknownknight
With 30 seconds warning before they enter. I can shoot them from the balcony, access to the home is limited...
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Posted on 2/25/15 at 8:01 am to yellowfin
Grab 870 under the bed, wife grabs her S&W. We grab the kid and hide in the master bath. We have an alarm system that is VERY loud, and rings outside. The dog alerts to sounds in the house already, when the alarm goes off, he jumps in the kid's bed and covers her.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 8:02 am to Lake Vegas Tiger
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Shoot them
This.
I kill them all or die trying. It would be a very bad situation for all of us most likely, but I have the perfect cover to pick them off if I am made aware of the intrusion before they get to the stairs.
This post was edited on 2/25/15 at 8:08 am
Posted on 2/25/15 at 8:05 am to theunknownknight
30 seconds warning?
Call 911 and police will arrive to handle intruders while I make coffee. Duh.
Call 911 and police will arrive to handle intruders while I make coffee. Duh.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 8:06 am to LNCHBOX
quote:Note to self: don't break in LNCHBOX's house.
Call 911. Get my shot gun from next to the bed that is fully loaded and my 9mm out of the night stand. Give 9mm to wife and have her hide on the ground in the closet. Take shotgun to hallway and wait for soon to be dead intruders to get in my line of sight.
ETA: This is all assuming the see and hear my rottie that will be barking and growling while they're fiddling around trying to get in and still decide my house is the one they have to get in.
ETA 2: Considering your 5th point, my plan is the same unless one of the points of entry is my bedroom window. That guy is getting blasted while he tries to get in.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 8:11 am to theunknownknight
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3. You don't know their intentions. They could be cops, for instance, using a no knock warrant
I know it isn't this because I don't break the law.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 8:11 am to The Mick
well a 30 second warning would be enough time for me to grab my pistol out of my closet and pop the mag in. I live in a small apartment with only one point of entry, so if I could muster up the sack to shoot them it'd be easy.
Although, truth be told.. woken out of a dead sleep and only 30 seconds, there's a good chance I'd wind up dead. It usually takes me 1-2 minutes to be coherent after being woken up from a dead sleep.
This makes me wonder, though, how would I hear them and know I have 30 seconds? How would I hear them? You'd think someone trying to break into my place wouldn't give me fair warning. This scenario is dumb because it wouldn't happen. Anyway, I'd definitely wind up dead if they busted up in my apartment with no warning.
Although, truth be told.. woken out of a dead sleep and only 30 seconds, there's a good chance I'd wind up dead. It usually takes me 1-2 minutes to be coherent after being woken up from a dead sleep.
This makes me wonder, though, how would I hear them and know I have 30 seconds? How would I hear them? You'd think someone trying to break into my place wouldn't give me fair warning. This scenario is dumb because it wouldn't happen. Anyway, I'd definitely wind up dead if they busted up in my apartment with no warning.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 8:14 am to theunknownknight
Tell them they can have all my cash, credit cards and guitars if they'll also take my wife.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 8:15 am to TigerPanzer
I need more guns apparently.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 8:17 am to theunknownknight
Get in the prone position at the top of the steps or the hallway infront of the door locked and loaded
Posted on 2/25/15 at 8:18 am to Hulkklogan
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It usually takes me 1-2 minutes to be coherent after being woken up from a dead sleep.
I used to think this until my dog woke me up one night growling and barking loudly by the front door. Woke me out of a deep sleep immediately and had my adrenaline going full blast. He is usually never like that, so I knew something was wrong. Wever found out what caused him to do it, but I was awake immediately with loaded gun in hand and ready for just about whatever. It was probably just the wind
Posted on 2/25/15 at 8:19 am to HornsLife
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I know it isn't this because I don't break the law
Yeah because the cops have never gotten the wrong house
Posted on 2/25/15 at 8:20 am to Wtodd
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Yeah because the cops have never gotten the wrong house
The overwhelming odds favor the armed men not being police on a no knock at the wrong address.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 8:22 am to theunknownknight
quote:
1. Three men are armed with small caliber pistols
2. You hear them and realize they are there 30 seconds before getting into your house
3. You don't know their intentions. They could be cops, for instance, using a no knock warrant
4. Your family is home and asleep in their rooms
5. The men come in from different points of entry
What's your plan of action?
shotgun first 5 shots (buck/buck/buck/slug/slug)
Pistol next 14
Hope I win
Posted on 2/25/15 at 8:24 am to theunknownknight
Grab my oump action shotgun and start pumping the crap out of it
Posted on 2/25/15 at 8:24 am to theunknownknight
The only correct answer if to grab your weapons and find a good firing position. Hopefully my dogs would scare them away as they are all good size and would be made as hornets at 2 am. If they still enter in the face of my crazy arse dogs barking at them, the next thing they'll hear will be my 45.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 8:25 am to theunknownknight
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5. The men come in from different points of entry
That makes it pretty tricky. If I still had guns, I would likely make a mess of things. Mrs Cove would hide with the kids and call 911. I would try to stay out of sight and defend them if necessary.
ETA: If only I had "Rotties" and "shotties" like the rest of these clever fellows, I'd be golden.
This post was edited on 2/25/15 at 8:28 am
Posted on 2/25/15 at 8:27 am to theunknownknight
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They all come in from different points of entry
Would need to rely on the dogs here to keep them at bay at different points while I found a central point to address the issue if they got by the dogs. They would not get to the top of the stair case since I'd have a much better line of sight on them and they'd only have that one way up.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 8:27 am to theunknownknight
Grab Sig P228 and cell phone beside bed, escort wife upstairs where kid's room is at. If the journey from the master to upstairs leads me by a point of entrance one of the 3-armed men are trying to break into I would fire a warning shot their way to force them into cover. That will probably take the full 30 seconds. I'll cover the stairway from upstairs. In my house the stairway is like a long hallway that is open at the top, so I could have plenty of different angles could view/attack from looking down while they have a very limited field of view from a doorway sized opening at the bottom. While I cover the stairway she gets my son into my office with the gun safe. I would think that 3 dogs barking and a warning shot would scare them away. I'd rather not shoot someone if I don't have too.
Posted on 2/25/15 at 8:33 am to DeoreDX
I pity the one in my kids site. She's not much on center mass. She's a head shot freak and giggles as she's shooting. A little disconcerting actually.
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