When we remodeled our house, the general contractor had became a Christian while in jail, serving time for his past life as a house burglar, who use to work for the “mob” stealing from drug dealers.
Something’s he taught me
First of all, if you’re going to own more guns, than you can carry with you, you need a gun safe.
Unless you live in a big private estate, your neighbors are better than any alarm system, make friends with them and help watch each other’s houses.
Make sure you keep your neighbors informed when you’re going to be out of town.
The best safe is one a thief cannot find.
Use long through deadbolt locks on all exterior doors, with long screws, for the plate that the bolt goes into, and long screws to secure the wood around the metal doors.
While a reinforced door will not stop a thief, it will at least take them two kicks to open the door, thus give you time to get to your gun. And it makes allot of noise that a thief does not want to make, when he has to keep hammering open a door.
Some of you like to talk about scenarios; this is what he use to do. :22a:
When he robbed a house, he would stop at a nearby hardware store and pay cash for a sledge hammer. And leave it at the house when he left.
If he knew the house had an alarm system, he would rob the house, when the people where home.
He would walk up to the front door of the house, at 9-11 pm, and hit the front door with the sledge hammer. Him and two other guys would then race into the house; two with shotguns. If alarm whet off, the homeowner, would tell the alarm company, it was a false alarm. He said “People will do anything you tell them to do when you have a shotgun to their kids heads.”
He would then tie up the wife and kids, and take them to a bedroom, and leave one of the guys with them.
Then he would have the guy open the safe, and give him a tour of the home. All they wanted was cash, drugs, jewelry, and firearms; Easy to transport.
When they left, he would leave them tied up, with duck tape.
Most drug dealers would never report the crime, and he never burglarized, a house in his home state.
The only reason he was caught was the DEA had one of the houses under surveillance, and got the tag off of the rental car, he was driving.