For years I've kept a handgun in a quick-access safe under my bed and a shotgun in the gun safe in the master closet (key to gun safe in quick-access safe). These days, I've got 3 small children. My concern is not preventing access to the guns, but what to do when the burglar alarm goes off in the middle of the night.
The way my house is laid out, the master bedroom is downstairs and the children's bedrooms are upstairs, on the other said of the house, which is fairly big (4,000 sq ft).
I'm torn between the plans of:
1) Get hand gun, quietly and slowly move through the house to hopefully get a jump on the BG (if it's not a false alarm).
2) Get gun, and dash upstairs toward kids to take defensive stand upstairs and protect kids.
It seems like #1 is the only viable choice because getting shot by BG during dash upstairs win't help them at all.
Anyway, I'd like to get people's ideas on home defense when the family is spread out.
Thanks,
Jon
The way my house is laid out, the master bedroom is downstairs and the children's bedrooms are upstairs, on the other said of the house, which is fairly big (4,000 sq ft).
I'm torn between the plans of:
1) Get hand gun, quietly and slowly move through the house to hopefully get a jump on the BG (if it's not a false alarm).
2) Get gun, and dash upstairs toward kids to take defensive stand upstairs and protect kids.
It seems like #1 is the only viable choice because getting shot by BG during dash upstairs win't help them at all.
Anyway, I'd like to get people's ideas on home defense when the family is spread out.
Thanks,
Jon