Life isn't the movies. Intruders at night...?..Hmmm...
It would be prudent to have a good early warning system; a noisy dog, motion activated flood lights; a good alarm system, great locks, reinforced doors, video systems that light up and beep when someone enters the property...etc.
A night time door kick or covert intrusion is usually not one man. Perhaps two of more people. Make it hard for them to get inside will give you time to take a defensive posture. Cocked and Locked or not, you must get awake and you must get ready.
At my house it's a Glock condition 2. And it has a lite. You need light and plenty of it. But we live in a good neighborhood.
If I travel and stay in areas I am not familiar with, my GLOCK is condition 1 on the nightstand at the hotel.
So it depends on where I am.
It would be prudent to have a good early warning system; a noisy dog, motion activated flood lights; a good alarm system, great locks, reinforced doors, video systems that light up and beep when someone enters the property...etc.
A night time door kick or covert intrusion is usually not one man. Perhaps two of more people. Make it hard for them to get inside will give you time to take a defensive posture. Cocked and Locked or not, you must get awake and you must get ready.
At my house it's a Glock condition 2. And it has a lite. You need light and plenty of it. But we live in a good neighborhood.
If I travel and stay in areas I am not familiar with, my GLOCK is condition 1 on the nightstand at the hotel.
So it depends on where I am.