No B.S. Home Defense

opsspec1991

opsspec1991

Active member
In the military, they always taught us that, "Time is life."
And never was this more apparent than when I suddenly
found myself in a gunfight in Afghanistan. The fact is, if I
didn't have hands ON my rifle when the bullets started
flying, I would have been DEAD. Period.

So, here's my question for you...

If you suddenly found yourself face-to-face with a violent
psychopath who's jacked on adrenaline, drunk or high on
drugs, who's mentally unstable, a repeat offender, who's
been awake for several hours plotting his crime...

"How fast can you put your hand on a LOADED weapon?"

Think about it. Is your home-protection firearm tucked away
under your bed with bullets up on a shelf in your closet?

Now, obviously you have to keep your firearms stored
safely. But, I want you to give somes serious thought
about being able to access your home-defense weapon in
60 SECONDS or less.

Yes, "60 seconds or LESS."

Now, there's no magic number. I'm just giving you a
60-second guideline. The truth is, in a critical incident like
a home invasion, time if life. So, the faster the better.

Go home tonight and time yourself. Walk through a real-life
scenario. How long does it take you access your firearm
and make ready? Then make adjustments to get that time
as close to ZERO as possible.

Because, God forbid, if you ever encounter a real threat
inside your home, time is LIFE. And your life and ones you
love depend on your ability to access your weapon immediately.

If you're serious about learning how to defend yourself, your
home and your family then this training will help you:

No B.S. Home Defense <== Complete details


And if you know of anyone who could benefit from this article,
please forward this email to them. Thanks.

Stay Alert & Practice Often!

By: EJ Owens
 
Our guns are never more than 18" from our handds or closer. Fully loaded and ready to go. We have no children, and very few if any visitors, so we are aware fo the status of our weapons at all times.
 
60 seconds is a lifetime (pun intended) when your talking life or death. If you have kids like I do, invest in a gunvault micro vault. Put it bedside. You come into my house and Gold Dot .45s will be greeting you within a couple seconds.
 
I am single, retired so have no one else around virtually all the time. I usually have both my semi-auto carry weapons on when I get dressed, one 9mm left pocket, other .40S&W owb 3:00. When not dressed, or in bathroom, both firearms are within arms reach. If someone breaks into my house, I will have my hand full. Since I carry full magazines Critical Defense +1, as I bring up the gun, my thumb has switched off the safety and ready. Maybe, 5 seconds or 10 maximum to gun in hand and on BG. My safe room has another two handguns hidden, a .357 magnum revolver and a 9mm semi. If really SHTF my AR is in my safe in the safe room with mag loaded. As you can see, being retired I got a lot of time on my hands.
---And thank you for your service opsspec.
 
I sleep with my Ruger P95 under the right side of my pillow, safety off and loaded with 124grn +p hollow point rounds (PDX, 16 of them in the gun).
I sleep with my S&W M&P .40 cal FS under the left side of my pillow, safety on because its too close to the wifey! , loaded with 180grn Gold Dot hollow point rounds, 16 in that gun as well.

It would only take me two seconds to grab either one and bust out a whole lot of mayhem!

Then, of course, my 12 gauge leans against my bed side, loaded with 10 + 1 Aguila mini slugs.

If I can't end it with two pistols and 32 rounds.... I can definitely end it with the 12 gauge!

During the day, I have both of the above pistols on my hip.

I am a firm believer in being ready!


For some reason, my wife thinks I'm paranoid!
Me? I just like to be prepared. That's all.
 
If I'm wearing pants, I am wearing one of my guns. I also keep my shotgun in a BackUp bedside gun rack. I do this since I dont have children in my home. Look for the BackUp on google.
 
I may retrieve my sidearm in 3 seconds; jump out and under the bed, enter key combination blind, open and retrieve it, ready to go.

My AR I may get to in 2 seconds, my wife 3, only because she has to come around to my side to retrieve it. 30+1, 5+1, and I'm ready for multiple armed intruders.

Man, I gotta sell the semi-autos and get a double barreled shotgun like Joe has, and shoot from my balcony (the roof) into the air, and scare the pants off those armed intruders. I may just see them run for my woods, stopping just long enough to empty their bladders, after it started early and wet their pants.
 
Under 10 seconds for the handguns and under 15 for the rifles. And that is multiple guns of each type. Not just one. That means either 23 rounds of .45ACP or 45 rounds of .40S&W or 60 rounds in 2 mags of .45ACP from the handguns. Or about 150 rounds of .223/5.56 or 60 rounds of 9 mm from the rifles ready to go.
 
No kids, almost no visitors - ECG is on my person if I'm awake, within reach in bed. Carbine and shotgun available immediately. Windows look onto the front porch from the side. I answer the door with the gun in hand behind my leg.
 
Staging is GOOD.

Staging firearms within a home can be dangerous if anyone within the home is untrained, with that said my home has weapons staged for back up use as I carry 24/7 (consider the weapons under my pillow staged for back up as my night time carry weapon), along with these staged weapons are ammo for each should reloading be necessary. Being prepared is not being paranoid Charles, otherwise there would be a lot of us under doctors care and there would be a lot less gun owners in America.
 
Last edited:
Staging can be a problem if you have guests/contractors/whatever over. I don't have any kids in my house and my EDC is always on my side or within arms reach, loaded, cocked, safety on however, just to be sure that single action doesn't add any more holes to my shoes when I get up and tuck the holster into my belt to go answer the door or whatever else. On your person is the safest place for your gun, except when you're asleep then whatever's close, comfortable, easy to get to and hard to disturb by accident.
 
So I've thought of that as well and tested the times. I've also questioned what would happen of someone broke in and I ran to the safe. My only concern is, I have two kids. A 5 yr old and 9 month old and they're my life. Are there any ways of moving firearms closer to u in case of someone breaking in but still safe to lock it up, so they don't have access?
 
usmcspires6803 said:
So I've thought of that as well and tested the times. I've also questioned what would happen of someone broke in and I ran to the safe. My only concern is, I have two kids. A 5 yr old and 9 month old and they're my life. Are there any ways of moving firearms closer to u in case of someone breaking in but still safe to lock it up, so they don't have access?
Click to expand...
.
Semper Fi Marine!
.
1. First step is to secure your home as best you can, so that nobody can quickly and quietly gain entry without your knowledge. The goals are to deter and, if that fails, to buy you sufficient time to execute your safety plan. I can’t speak to the instructional videos referred to in the promotional video at the start of this thread (because I haven’t seen them), but the NRA PPITH course covers this subject very nicely.
.
2. As a firearm owner you are unequivocally, completely, and solely responsible for the security of your firearms. No one who should not have access to them should be able to gain access to them. Personally I cringe a bit at the idea of staging firearms about the house by “hiding” them, without securing them. What if a thief breaks in while you are away, and you come home while they’re still in the house? Any clever place you think of to hide your firearm they can think to look. You could end up looking down the barrel of your own gun. As far as kids go, there is absolutely no telling what they can find and get into. Think it’s out of reach? Think again. I still chuckle when I recall the sight one morning of my then two year old son, sitting on top of our full-size refrigerator, eating cookies that my wife or I had placed “out-of-reach.” To this day I’m still not exactly sure how he got up there. So…if you feel you must stage firearms, there are many “micro” safes on the market, most not too expensive, that would allow unobtrusive storage in almost any room (put one in your “safe” room first). They allow for fairly rapid access, and if found by a child or an unauthorized adult do not represent an immediate “gun in the hand” of someone who shouldn’t have it. If you go this route, make sure you can quickly find and operate it in the dark.
.
3. In terms of both security and being prepared, IMO, the best place for your firearm is on your person, even in your home. That’s not possible at all times for most people. Sleeping, showering, wrasslin’ with your kids on the floor, etc., come to mind. Come up with a plan for those times. Since you have kids, unless your firearm is holstered on your person it should be locked up.
 
opsspec1991 said:
In the military, they always taught us that, "Time is life."
And never was this more apparent than when I suddenly
found myself in a gunfight in Afghanistan. The fact is, if I
didn't have hands ON my rifle when the bullets started
flying, I would have been DEAD. Period.

So, here's my question for you...

If you suddenly found yourself face-to-face with a violent
psychopath who's jacked on adrenaline, drunk or high on
drugs, who's mentally unstable, a repeat offender, who's
been awake for several hours plotting his crime...

"How fast can you put your hand on a LOADED weapon?"

Think about it. Is your home-protection firearm tucked away
under your bed with bullets up on a shelf in your closet?

Now, obviously you have to keep your firearms stored
safely. But, I want you to give somes serious thought
about being able to access your home-defense weapon in
60 SECONDS or less.

Yes, "60 seconds or LESS."

Now, there's no magic number. I'm just giving you a
60-second guideline. The truth is, in a critical incident like
a home invasion, time if life. So, the faster the better.

Go home tonight and time yourself. Walk through a real-life
scenario. How long does it take you access your firearm
and make ready? Then make adjustments to get that time
as close to ZERO as possible.

Because, God forbid, if you ever encounter a real threat
inside your home, time is LIFE. And your life and ones you
love depend on your ability to access your weapon immediately.

If you're serious about learning how to defend yourself, your
home and your family then this training will help you:

No B.S. Home Defense <== Complete details


And if you know of anyone who could benefit from this article,
please forward this email to them. Thanks.

Stay Alert & Practice Often!

By: EJ Owens
Click to expand...
.
I definitely like the mindset/attitude portrayed here and in the promo video. 60 seconds is a very long time though. If you are counting on having 60 seconds to retrieve a firearm and begin executing your home safety plan, I’d say you need to re-think your plan.
 
I give myself more than 60 seconds, I have 300 lbs worth of deterrent. Male South African Boerboel.....a sweetheart to us and the grandkids...150 lbs of living hell to anyone who even acts close to aggressive to me or the wife. If he doesn't slow them down.....his back up is a 150 female South African Boerbel......just like her buddy. By the time I get there, the bad guy will be screaming for me to shoot him....just to relieve the hell unleashed. I can be armed in just a matter of seconds. Like a few on here have said...just me and the wife are home so guns are readily accessible and loaded.
 
Kids are grown now, but they (as I and my siblings did) grew up in a house with loaded firearms and the knowledge of what they can do (rabbit hunting at 6 y.o. owned first rifle at 10). My kids had the wherewithal to defend themselves in their bedrooms (2 girls shared one, 3 boys shared another -- entries into them were both west facing at the balcony, nothing beyond except the neighbor's rooftop) if necessary.

My wife and I both carry at all waking moments (wrasslin' or basketball with the kids wasn't ever a problem beyond sweat), the dog serves as early warning, plenty of other items are within 60 sec or less reach.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

New Threads

Members online

No members online now.
Total: 153 (members: 0, guests: 153)

Latest posts

Forum statistics

Threads
49,525
Messages
610,668
Members
74,995
Latest member
tripguru365

Share this page

Back
Top