It is late at night, and you hear a knock on your door. You go to the door, but you do not open your door because you are too smart to open your door just because someone is knocking on your door. How safe are you now? Are you safe behind your door?
Are you just on the other side of the door? You might want to re-think where you stand.
Then you are in your home and the intruder made it into your home. You are standing in the other room. Are you safe?
The bad guy is around the corner of your room, are you safe?
For me, the idea of shooting through doors has become a critical part of our HD plan. Itâs just the wife and me, so I know, if anyone else is in the house at 02:00 they constitute a deadly threat by their presence and need to be stopped.
If someone is outside my bedroom door, I know that they are boxed into a small landing at the top of the stairs. Iâm not waiting for that door to open, I plan on putting about 10 rounds of M193 5.56 through the door, then wait.
Doors arenât cover, but they are concealment, and we can use that to our advantage in our own homes.
It is an interesting problem when we live in a world with police who may break in thinking theyâre after a bad guy and have the wrong houseâŠor a neighbor who is checking on someone. As Batman would sayâŠKa-Blam!
If I remember correctly, 5.56 did not penetrate the hurricane impact windows during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting. My exterior doors have 7/16" double pane glass that goes from edge to edge with a vinyl picture frame on both sides. I wish he would have tested some of those.
If someone is pounding on my door at Oh-Dark-Thirty, they best have theirs with them because I already have mine. Iâm crouched down behind the end of the couch and The Wife will be behind me wrangling boys into the master bedroom and accessing the safe.
I donât open the door at night.
I agree with this statement. Everything in your home defense arsenal will most likely penetrate a door or wall in your home. I say âmost likelyâ because there could be a few folks out there using a paintball gun or sling shot in their home defense arsenal.
Iâve shot 1/4â mild steel plates with standard m55 ball at 50 yards and seen the holesâŠ
I suppose, maybe,⊠if those windows are built like bulletproof glass, layered up with vinyl in between then maybe?.. it would stop that round?
But the video isnât about testing glass⊠it was about testing average doors.
Personally, Iâve seen enough of these kinds of videos that I know any stick built house is basically a fish barrel.
If you know where to shoot you probably wonât miss.
No interior or exterior wall will stop a bullet, unless it directly hits a 4x4 or the long dimension of a 2x4!âŠ. And even then it may only deflect and continue on.
So unless you live in a house built out of solid brick, exterior,⊠and INTERIOR walls,⊠with concrete floors⊠do not assume your rounds wonât hit your neighbors!!!
IF the BGâs are on the Outside and they stay outside? THEY LIVE.
I WILL NOT SHOOT Threw my door(s)
*Outer is Hurricane glass/Metal
*Inner Solid Wood and Sheet Steel. (NOT pressboard)
Also Crossbeam steel and handmade âHooksâ across center of Inner door.
IF Iâm not physically threatened? I hold fire till they come in.
If they do break in they face a wall of DEATH. .44âs Center Mass! or HEAD.
(Hope they have I.D. in their pocket to Identify)
Absolutely different story if the attempt entrance through any windows or back
Patio doors. Buh-Bye.
(2) Reasonâs I wonât shootâNeighborâs across from door are Axxhole
Dumbocrats but they Sue everybody they can for a hangnail.
Their Stucco/Windowâs, Front door get âdingedâ Iâm in Court.
Second: Sister/Myself not physically threatened? I wonât shoot.
Courts (again) out here SUCK! Weâd be Vilified! Donât need that noise.
You have to be broken and bleeding to win a Self-D case in New Mexico.
Been there done that,
NOT doing that again.
If house sustains damage cause theyâre frustrated they canât get in Iâll
be pissed, but I can live with that.
(yes, Iâve thought about this already).
The fact that you will not shoot is smart but, then there is them. They could and that was my point. Even in the house, you are hidden but still not safe. How many people have been shot by a stray bullet from someone shooting at a house? Just a thought to think about.
My Bad Brother⊠YOU ARE CORRECT.
I did not, do not intend to stand in anyoneâs Gun sites!
I have a plan for that also.
I built my house with such a plan in mind
My âFoyerâ is a KILL SACK. (If they penetrate my Defenses.
But I wonât be by a window or door if an attack comes @ Us.
I KNOW WHERE EVERY ROUND OF MINE WILL GO
and an Innocent will not be harmed. God willing.
IF they attack my house their lead will hopefully be absorbed by empty walls .
No one knows in a gunfight what will happen to every round but Iâve
done my best to protect my surrounding neighbors and ourselves.
I put in a medium size window facing the door from the side if they
are standing there firing into my house they are in the Kill Zone.
My bedroom window faces the street (where BGâS may be firing from----I pity their unfortunate souls.
