Before. Guns?

[BigBill]

Before you purchased guns for home protection what did you use?

I had a storage room off the bedroom where I kept a chain saw.
The bad guy would hear the recoil ratchet thinking it's a shotgun.

My dream front door opener is a 125 cc chainsaw with a 60" bar. I'm a sick man. Lol

 

[akoda]

lol

I am a former bouncer and had a bad *** rottweiler. considering how I am shooting these days I may have been safer

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[Doug627]

It's always been a revolver.

 

[sheepdawg]

Adirondack Duke Snider Model.

 

[woodsltc]

I grew up with guns in the home for protection and recreation.....don't remember a time without some guns around. Even at college I had a .22 rimfire.

Don

 

[Farmer17]

I had a 12 gauge pump under the bed when I was eleven years old. Before that, I don't remember.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

BEFORE I purchased guns for my home protection I lived with Mama & Daddy........He had lots of guns.

 

[sar4937]

I've always had access to guns, but I competed in Schutzhund with 3 Rottweilers in the late 70's and 80's, and tended to rely on them.

 

[MRB1]

Although guns were always in my house, home protection wasn't an issue - we never locked our doors at night, never knew of a problem. It was during the race riots of the 60s and 70s that I bought a gun for home protection, but that was really a leg-jerk move, because our small town didn't have any problems or troublemakers. Now, we're never without some level of protection, and still feel unsafe leaving the property.

 

[ContinentalOp]

 

[K-22]

Before you purchased guns for home protection what did you use?

I had a storage room off the bedroom where I kept a chain saw.
The bad guy would hear the recoil ratchet thinking it's a shotgun.

My dream front door opener is a 125 cc chainsaw with a 60" bar. I'm a sick man. Lol

It was well known, that to come into our neighborhood, with the intent to do no good, could dramatically alter your ability to perform normal bodily functions for several days, or longer.
Let us say the neighborhood was self policing.

 

[soFlaNative]

Reputation.

 

[LittleCooner]

I grew up in a home with guns, and still have them, dads and granddads and a couple of new ones for me, no, only one new gun for me, ha ha. I do not know any other way, and I still do not lock the doors all the time. After doing my genealogy, my family has been in home protection in north America with guns for 400 years. thats why they left England, so they could own guns and shoot the %^*@ that came thru the front door. My guys were some of those ones in 1775 that the English tried to take their guns. they shot them, and then shot them again. Great home defense. Come to think of it, I have my Great Granddads home defense 12 gage in the back of the safe, behind that one gun I own.

 

[2tall79]

......Five iron

 

[Rudi]

Knife...…..

 

[Rustyt1953]

Ruthie's biscuits.

 

[Marshwheeling]

The one time I had to deal with an intruder, I just hit him a few times and he left. There's more to the story, which I have recounted here before, but we can just leave it at that. There was a cleaver within easy reach, and Conchita is still miffed that I didn't use it on the guy. No matter, the guy was dead within a couple of years anyway, and I'm still here.

The whole episode scared the **** out of me, and I won't be doing it again.

 

[bigwheelzip]

Baseball bat for the home, and a pack of hand-launched flares for woods walks, until I retired to SC and got firearms.

 

[Bugkiller99]

Ruthie's biscuits.

Oh, you are in SUCH TROUBLE now.

 

[BigBill]

I miss my 145 # female rottie when she barked the house shook.

 

[CajunBass]

My mother told a story after my father died. They got married just after WWII, and were living in the house out in the country, while my father was still building it. The yard was full of building material, and my father was worried that someone might come by and start messing with it during the night. He told my mother, "Now Margaret, if I hear anyone out there, I'll yet "GET THE GUN!" Don't you yell back "WE DON'T HAVE ONE!"

I got my first shotgun, a single shot 20, when I was 15 or so. I've had a gun ever since.

 

[S&WsRsweet]

I too carried a knife before I got my first firearm when I was 12 . Yea I grew up in one of those kind of families lol.

 

[dmn57]

Had one a these hidden under the bed...

 

[6518John]

My first time to pray for blindness!

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

I had a Crowbar

 

[Snapping Twig]

Always had a sheath knife as a kid. Mom tossed it on me.

As soon as I was able, had a wife and a house, I bought a Sig P220.

These days I carry a 3" 13 with home cast Lyman 358156 160g SWC over 15.5g W296.

Also, I have a tonfa, excrima sticks, home made nunchaku and a short staff under the bed. Oh yeah, also a full size official police baton.

 

[jag312]

When my father was at sea, my mother relied on a Doberman for home protection. The Doberman, Misty, was so protective of the house and the family that I honestly believe that if some stranger had entered the house, Misty would have tried to kill him.

 

[swsig]

Several large fire extinguishers.

 

[BigBoy99]

After the MLK riots in near by Washington DC, a Winchester M97 Trench Gun was kept behind the front door.

 

[islamoradamark]

pocket knife