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- How can I reinforce this door at the back of my garage? Frame is too thin for 3 inch deadbolt screws.
- The eternal discussion but with a twist. Choice of home defense gun in a country with harsher gun laws. Some numbers for which I need someone's experienced eye to extract a conclusion.
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| Posted: 02 Nov 2020 03:53 PM PST Hello! I hope that using my alternative reddit account for this is not much of an offense and if so I'm truly sorry. However, as I'll elaborate further down, in my country having a gun demands as much lawful secrecy as possible, since it makes your home a desired target to steal said gun. Also sorry for the wall of text, I wanted to show I did my homework to some extent before occupying a place in the sub's feed. Good day to all. Things in my country are getting quite violent, and I was hoping you could help me flash out the final but very, very, VERY delicate details of my home defense set up: the gun. So far, I have set up:
This already makes me feel a LOT safer. Alarm goes off, I can see my yard through the CCTV to see what's going on, and I have someone (military not in service) a few blocks away I can call in an emergency, all while hiding behind a really heavy steel door and gated windows. The final piece would be the gun to fill the gaps in the previous setup. Things you think I'm missing on that list besides the gun are also very much welcome! CONTEXT
At first glance, the above is how you spell 12ga shotgun with #4 buckshot. However, the issue I have with that is, that while (if I understand correctly) a reliable shotgun is cheaper than a reliable handgun (only the firearm), ammo for a shotgun is far more expensive that handgun ammo. And I have no idea where bolt-action stands there and if it is even useful for this. Moreover, I could not find any #4 buckshot publications here, only bird or 00, which makes me fear that the ammo might be hard to come by. Without talking to a dealer its uncertain though. My main uncertainty is then the following:For what useful home defense gun is the price sum... Firearm + Enough ammo spent at range to gain enough proficiency + Enough ammo for home defense ...the best deal? Let's see if I can narrow it down a bit. PRICESThese are the prices I managed to scramble together for my country, turned to U$D. Mind that, as gun laws are a lot harsher here, vendors are fewer, and publications with prices even rarer. This shoots prices up and any lack of availability you detect on the US will be multiplied here. These of course are not the only weaponry available here, it's just the list of cheap but reliable guns I came up with after doing research on gun brands and searching those guns here.
...and just for kicks...
Therefor, for me to brake even between the Maverick 88 and the Remington RP9 I would need to fire around 70 to 120 rounds. Assuming two standard 50 round session per week, I would brake even after the first or second week. Then, each week I would be bleeding an extra 109 to 194 dollars over the 31 dollars of 9mm ammo. For context, a normal salary here goes around 300 U$D a month. (I have some savings ready, and I expect to get a reliable income in the next few months.) Maybe 100 shells a week is a lot. I don't really know. In conclusion, the shotgun REALLY needs to outperform the 9mm, as in, if I was a robot, something like from 80% to 95% success rate up step, to justify the 300% to 600% cost increase in practice sessions. Life has infinite value but saving money in this cutthroat circumstances can be as lifesaving. We are talking food, health, fuel, etc. Here I bow down to your opinions. A case could be made against having a pistol at home: since a handgun is the robbers weapon of choice, its extremely common here in my country where guns in general are relatively rare, specially non hunting ones, for a person's gun to become an even bigger threat to the owner than having none, since while he has an extra layer of protection, the outside threat could really be increased due to him or her having something so valuable for the robber. For reference, it's common for criminals here to actually rent guns from bigger fish until they manage to procure their own. Therefor the importance of secrecy. I can keep my mouth shut to my neighbors, but the range and the gun regulatory agency, both state institutions, will know, and with a corrupt police force and overall corrupt state this could really bite back. I tell this in part to justify my sort of anonymity with the post. CONCLUSION (kinda)Having seen the numbers, I really lean towards the handgun. The cost of the shotgun is just too high and I have other things to worry about as well, even considering how really violent things might get. I'm pretty sure the shotgun performs better in the same scenario, but I'm yet to see if that outperformance is just so staggeringly high that it renders the 9mm trivial. But of course, I'm not even a noob, I'm even less than that, since I don't even own a gun nor ever had, so I'm waaay behind on experience, so here I turn to you. Maybe be you could point me towards a piece of info or concept that might cement or change some ideas. Thank you very much for your time. [link] [comments] | ||
| Save multiple days of camera video Posted: 02 Nov 2020 04:08 PM PST | ||
| Home Camera Setup Recommendations Posted: 02 Nov 2020 01:54 PM PST Hello All. Bought a new home and am looking for options around cameras/monitoring. Hoping to start with an ideal end state and work into a solution from there. Ideally with a single vendor but open to using multiple if decent integrations are already available. Cameras for the exterior of the home. Must be outdoor rated, Can do WiFi or PoE but they must be smaller in form factor for ascetics purposes. Would like decent night vision. I'd like 24x7 local recording as shipping all that data to the cloud would kill my ISP data cap. Now I do require mobile access with alerts from defined motion zones and preferably motion zones that can have time profiles but not fully a requirement, just a nice to have. Need to be able to have mobile access for more than 1 user. What product set or combo should I be looking at here? Not trying to break the bank but want a solid solution that checks the boxes. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 02 Nov 2020 01:05 PM PST I am about to move into a new house and have been researching locks. I like the idea of a keypad lock because it allows setting up temporary access and to change the code. However, with some locks there is no key slot in case the battery dies in the keypad. Consumer Reports rated the Schlage Touch Keyless FE375 CAM Door Lock the highest and I have been considering that. My question to the community is this, "What are your opinions on keypad locks vs traditional locks? Is there any specific lock that you would suggest? Which one is more secure?" [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 02 Nov 2020 06:37 AM PST | ||
| Posted: 02 Nov 2020 01:27 AM PST Hello guys, My gf and I (both female) are looking for a camera that:
We have no experience with such cameras and after looking trough many on the internet I'm confused. I hope you can help us, thanks in advance. [link] [comments] | ||
| What’s the best wireless cameras Posted: 02 Nov 2020 01:19 AM PST Hey guys moving to a new house and it's quite large. What's the best wireless security cameras with good range. Preferably something compatible with solar charging. [link] [comments] | ||
| Home security for long vacations Posted: 01 Nov 2020 06:30 PM PST I have a home in the U.S., but I travel a lot for work + vacations (less with Covid now) and I'm concerned about it being burglarized. I was thinking of installing a Ring security system with monitoring, do you guys have experience with them? I usually have internet access so I can check cameras and stuff while I'm away but I can't really stop a burglary. I'm mainly worried about travel when internet access is spotty/non-existent so I wouldn't be able to access my security system, which is why the monitoring has to be able to deal with anything on their own. Any tips/advice for this situation? [link] [comments] | ||
| Is 12 Gauge #2 Shot good for home defense? Posted: 01 Nov 2020 09:29 PM PST | ||
| Three outside cameras, inside motion detectors, glass break, three door alarms. Posted: 01 Nov 2020 07:03 PM PST What is the best system for this simple home example. It seems to me best/easiest camera setup would be 4K POE. Lots of folks say go with a local alarm company which I guess means alarm.com. I contacted a local alarm guy off Craigslist and plan to see what he thinks after he looks at the renovation in progress. He does networking too so I'd like to throw in a few Cat 6 access points to make sure of getting signal to the second floor. It seems the real money for these companies is in the contract, although outside cameras are not cheap either. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 01 Nov 2020 03:00 PM PST
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