I recently read a statement by a guy who had a home defense plan that, to my mind, sounded a little more like a zombie apocalypse plan. He had at least five guns with at least half a dozen magazines for each filled and ready to go, several thousand rounds of ammunition handy, and a safe room. His idea was that, in the event of a home invasion, he would round up his family, get everyone into the safe room, and keep the intruders at bay using the guns he had available, while his family helped him reload the magazines he had already used.
Now pause and think about that for a second. This isnāt the 1720s, itās the 2020s. If one is using modern weapons, needing your family to reload that many magazines means youāre firing a lot of bullets. And if the enemy is still coming, theyāre beyond dedicated, theyāre inhuman ā or youāre a terrible shot. (In which case you just killed your neighbors.) The gentlemanās plan was beyond paranoid. Are you really going to have enough time to gather everyone, and is the defense really going to require hundreds, if not thousands, of bullets?
But, he also had some good points, like making sure you have enough magazines (and keeping them loaded) in case you need to use more than one. So my question is, how does one plan to defend their home and family adequately without going into a completely unrealistic zombie apocalypse mode?
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Dang, he must live in a tough neighborhoodā¦ or a fantasy world.
One gun on my hip or nightstand, Tac14 with 00buck nearby and an alarm system.
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I have to say, Iām setup in a similar fashion. Letās put things in perspective. The weakest idiots are the ones responsible for our protection.
I stopped laughing a while ago!
I maintain 20 - 30 filled magazines for each of my firearms in every part of my home, that equates to thousands of rounds. Iām not fortunate enough to have a safe room. So Iāll be doing battle in the open. Weāve seen the damage and death that results from āpeacefulā actions, just imagine if they were pissed off! Law enforcement is a thing of the past. Iām the one responsible for my families safety. In my case, my wife will not be reloading, sheāll be taking aim, communicating and squeezing the trigger!
I see a bigger picture, not so much āzombiesā, but we got the cartels invading from the south and the north, the the Chinese to the east and if Brandon gives up any more of America, we will surely have Russians from the west. Not to mention the entire Middle East gearing up to wipe us off the planet, if Brandon doesnāt accomplish that on his own!
Until this fool is deposed, Iāll treat my home as if zombies, Chinese, Russian, Al-Queda, drug cartels are approaching my castle! Pre-Brandon, I never thought about āstagingā a firearm in my home. Shooting was a hobby and a piece of mind. Today, our nation is the most vulnerable itās ever been in history. Our enemies are preparing. Iām prepared as well.
Hope youāre doing the same!
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I feel sorry for the son of the bitch who decides to break into his house.
Imagine breaking in, and in the bedroom you hear this song goingā¦.
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So, itās a question of what to do for home defense?
Clear lines of sight outside (no concealment while trying to get into a door or window). Exterior lighting. Locked doors and windows. Some kind of reinforcement for almost all residential doors. Good locks. Monitored alarm. A reliable firearm you are proficient with kept staged, maybe two or three staged in different places if itās a large house (break ins donāt always and only happen at night when you are in bed). If you have a āsafe roomā, bring the firearm with you to it and/or have one staged in it. Maybe a spare mag for each, but if you have letās say an AR type rifle with a 30 round mag, maybe one spare magā¦I canāt think of any plausible home invasion scenario in CONUS for a law abiding citizen that would require even that much
Iām thinking and hoping that whoever talked about being in a running gun battle in his home while his family reloaded his spent magazines was having fun with you.
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I made that joke plenty of times when Iām driving with friends, Iāll come up with a hypothetical scenario where weāre getting attacked from all over and told them as I unload a magazine, Iāll toss you it to reload, while I use my spare mags, and each mag you get done with reloading toss them back to me.
New game of Hot Potato!
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Iām more concerned about idiots falsely called anti-fascists.
IMO, foreigners are fair game in an invasion.
But, how do you battle fellow Americans who arenāt officially declared ādomestic terrorists?ā
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They will be the oneās unarmed, walking infront of traffic, updating their social profile.
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Families are the building blocks of civilization.
Hold your kids tight and protect them.
Everything else is a gimmick.
Well, except for maybe a 12 gauge. 
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When they start coming, Iāll have this on a continuous loopā¦
I know they teach us to avoidā¦well, someone should be teaching the scum of the earth to avoid my home. Iāve avoided way too muchā¦they want to bring it, Iām open to suggestions!
Sorry, that just slows them down and gives me time to dial and aim. Again my apologies, but this is not your daddies United States. Whatās entering this country, doesnāt believe in this country, it just wants to relieve us of our resources.
Furthermore we didnāt think it plausible that visiting Americans to Mexico would be getting kidnapped and killed on a regular basis by the lower echelon of drug cartels that now have āoperational controlā over our southern borders! Operational control of the southern border of the United States, are we hearing ourselves? Chinese spy balloons sweeping across the nation? Americans being killed overseas, because wing ding canāt face down the enemy at the gate? Forewarned is forearmed, peace through strength! More simply statedā¦
If it smells like a terrorist, walks like a terrorist, burns down American neighborhoods, itās a terrorist. Those are not āfellow Americansā! And thereās nothing ādomesticā about them. They are playing the Art of War, thatās why they are winning.
Thatās why we are discussing weapon staging and reloading magazines, because today itās more real, than the days we played cops and robbers! Somebody started playing for keeps and it wasnāt me. I was happy with foul mouthed tweets and $2.00 gas. Now we have the best prospects for nuclear war and cartels who are very much more dangerous than the mafia!
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Iāve got at least a thousand rounds for everything I own except the SFARā¦working on that now.Its not about a large scale attack,more about shtf.In the long run should it happen ammunition will be one of the hottest commodities left.Am I paranoidā¦ perhaps I prefer to call it READY.
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I ran into a guy at the LGS, we watched a guy load up a pallet of 556. I think he put it like this. I donāt need that many rounds, I keep 1000, The way I see it, they will over run me in about 30 seconds how many rounds can I get off by then.
For me EDC + 1 mag close all of the time, AR + 2 mags passively locked. Like Enzo_T says, I live in a downtown area, These groups get big fast and they have zero manners. Iāll need to protect my doors and windows as the mob moves by.
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I think the records indicate the violent crime rate is currently lower than āmy daddyāsā country.
Remember, until quite recently, violent crime had been trending down for literally decades (donāt go by the media here, go by the facts).
The crime and violent crime rates are increasing, perhaps dramatically, the past few years, but, that hasnāt been enough to overcome decades of reduction.
Your home defense plan is absolutely your choice, if you donāt think locked doors and windows, alarms, and all that, are helpful, you are free to not include it in your layers of security (you are also free to not have layers of security).
But my answer for home defense remains the same, and it starts with things like locked doors and a monitored alarm
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Outer doors are metal with dead bolts. Houses alarmed with cameras that will turn the outside lights on if you get close as well. 80 lb black mouth cur dog that will have a come to Jesus meeting with you if you donāt know her. I have a substantial armory and thousands of rounds of ammo that I donāt expect will be used but I have it. I am more concerned about home burglary type invasion then hordes.
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Iāve done the numbers again and IMO crime rates are down because there are 1/3 less cops on the streets, fewer arrests are being made and, so called, āprosecutorsā are not doing their jobs!
Since itās catch and release, the same perpetrators repeat the same crime and are released and probably not reported.
Consider how the reports are made via the media, J6 was the worst disaster since Pearl Harbor and as flames are shooting up behind a reporter, itās considered peaceful!
So as I watch hordes of animals ( or so called fellow Americans) destroy an Apple Store or demolish a Chinese restaurant, I have to think to myself. Self, is that really happening or is that normal?
Not only that, when I was playing cops and robbers, 20, 30 or 60 people never swarmed the local electronics store or candy store. Sorry, back in my day we didnāt have ābig boxā stores. Gee, maybe thatās the problem!
Back in my day, if you thought about robbing the local candy store or the locally family owned butcher shop, we didnāt make a report then either! The neighborhood took care of matters. Today is nothing like yesterday!
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If someone robbed a business, you didnāt even report it to police? Yeah thatās definitely not something Iām familiar with.
But, that kind of sounds like it evens out, stats wiseā¦perhaps the high crime rates back in the day were even higher than we think but robberies werenāt even reported for the system to have an opportunity to record it?
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Thatās probably when the out of the shadows Molotov cocktails find out if your residence is flammable
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