2 dobermans, a standard poodle, a wolfhound mix and a 115 lb alaskan malamute. I don’t expect much from the english setter. If they slow the intruder down enough, I have a Colt 45 that I’d need to load. THen I’d hope it’s like a mouse - point and click.
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Shingles will make anyone grouchy. My husband doesn’t have shingles, but he does have a couple of handguns and quite a few long guns, all of which he will gladly put to use. Me, I’ll stick with the knives. Sure you have to get up close and personal, but that’s the fun of it. Come to think of it, my husband will probably hand ME the guns, as I’m an excellent shot, but don’t care much for them.
If my daughter’s at home, she has a handgun and rifle too. Plus she’s a green belt in taekwondo, if it comes down to really up close and personal.
Kukri - my brother gave it to me to keep away the zombies, but I guess this will do.
I have several baseball bats, but next to the bed is my Beatstick™. It’s an 18" piece of 3/8" wall 1.5" diameter steel pipe with a thick piece of oak dowel (1.5" diameter) jammed into it. The whole thing is 42" long.
I have some training with blunt weapons, and I’ve used the Beatstick™ before (to stop a guy from beating his girlfriend in the street; couldn’t wait for the cops but they were OTW). Lucky for him I hit him with the wooden end. The pipe end will crush a skull like it was a pumpkin.
You totally freaking rock. If you weren’t already married, I’d move to NJ just to woo you. 
Two very large dogs, a taser, a machete, and my steel-toed boots.
Depends. At home, they will be met by my 150lb Newfoundland, my 120lb Shiloh Shepherd and my 50lb Chow. The chow is naturally the really ferocious one, but the other two do put on a good show.
At boyfriend’s, where I spend much time, they are met by an ex marine who is overly eager to share his gun collection. A loaded glock 45 and 12 gauge shotgun, at the moment.
And no matter where, they are met by military strength pepper spray, which the boy insists I carry with me since I love to volunteer in the bad parts of town. Maybe a gun at some point, I want my own now!!
Depends. Are my daughters here with me? Then I’m in the hall until I know they’re safely locked in their rooms (metal doors) with something inside blocking entry. If they’re not here I’m in my room, door locked, maybe dresser pushed in front, if not dresser, then tubs full of fabric. And at the very beginning of all of it I grab the phone and dial 911. I don’t have the training or experience to weild weapons and they’d probably be used against me, so barriers are my best bet. I can dump a bunch of stuff in the way, CD racks and speakers and even a hobby table right now. By the time he got to me, the cops would be well on their way.
Mossberg .12 ga pump loaded with hollowpoint Sabat slugs. Make my day, mofo.
If I’m in my bedroom when they come in, they’re met with buckshot from a 12-gauge Winchester 120 shotgun.
If I’m in my office, they’re met with 94-grain 9x18 bullets from a CZ-82 pistol.
If I’m in my living room (which I hardly ever am) I would have to pick up the bench from my electric organ and smash them over the head with it, because there are no firearms there.
I sincerely doubt that anybody is going to break into this apartment, given the location in which it’s situated. It’s on the second floor of an upscale complex right across from the management office and the swimming pool, surrounded by lights, with two giant windows overlooking the central courtyard. Anyone trying to break in would be spotted immediately by someone, at pretty much any time of day or night.
I don’t live in the sort of neighborhood where middle-of-the-night intrusions into people’s homes happens, so my arsenal of firearms is unloaded and safely locked away.
However, I do have several items ready to hand should the need arise.
12 gauge Remington 870 Wingmaster w/ deer slugs
Three shots and no spread, but I have a small place.
At home a dog and an alarm system with an emegency button. Here, many armed guards, a safe room and the ability to call for NATO forces to lend assitance.
As I lay on my bed with my laptop on my stomach, I can see a Winchester 1200 12-gauge pump with a Riot Barrel (short), a Remington 1100 20-gauge, and a Hi-Standard .22 Revolver. In the rest of the house, whatever I can grab I guess.
Two dogs and a 12 gauge shotgun. Remington.
So you’re prepared to go all Medieval on their asses?
They’d run into me and my guns, called lefty and righty.
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In all honestly, if anyone was going to break into my apartment they’d do it through the kitchen window, so arming myself with a carving knife is right out. I suppose I could wrap a bar of soap in a shirt, or throw some dirty underwear at them.
All manner of goodies depending on where we are in the house:
S&W .38
Nightstick
Baseball bat
A wide selection of knives
Hands and feet of two Taekwondo Black Belts
If they come in anyplace except the front bedroom windows, it only takes me 10 seconds to get to my S&W 6-shot revolver loaded with .357 Magnum soft-nose hollow-points. I would take an extra couple of seconds to tuck into my belt or pocket my Ruger 6-shot revolver loaded with .22 Magnum hollow-points.
If they come in through the front room, and I think they are a danger to me before I can arm myself, I am headed out of the house another way.
Sure, I could leave the house either way, but if I can arm myself, I won’t.
I don’t have guns because I can’t afford it. For now, I have my Toledo short sword, and an SCA wallhanger longsword. Believe you me if anyone broke in they’d have to deal with fury not unlike what the English saw during the Scottish uprisings. A half naked man running at you shrieking at the top of his lungs with a sword poised for a killing blow is nothing to trifle with.
I have boundary issues.
