Just got a text from my son. He lives and works in NY. It said "If you hear the garage opening in 45 minutes don't shoot me please". Not likely that I would have, but it is probably a good idea for friends or relatives that you are not expecting to not surprise you by entering your homes without telling you first.

No garage.  Locked doors.  No visitors unless we know they are coming.  I lived by those rules (although a garage would be nice) even before i had guns.  no foot traffic by our house either, so no door to door crap either. 

Just got a text from my son. He lives and works in NY. It said "If you hear the garage opening in 45 minutes don't shoot me please". Not likely that I would have, but it is probably a good idea for friends or relatives that you are not expecting to not surprise you by entering your homes without telling you first.

So we have 30 minutes to break in through your garage safely :ph34r:

 

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Yes but we have keypads that open the electric garage door and then a keypad lock on the door from the garage into the house, and then a keypad for the alarm code. Obviously he knows all of those. Likely the Huskies would not stir either as they know him. Thus, he would be through all the perimeter controls

Yes but we have keypads that open the electric garage door and then a keypad lock on the door from the garage into the house, and then a keypad for the alarm code. Obviously he knows all of those. Likely the Huskies would not stir either as they know him. Thus, he would be through all the perimeter controls

 

The last house I had with an outside keypad to open the garage door also still had the factory sticker on the back of the keypad, with the combination printed on it.    

 

If you have a keypad you didn't install yourself, it's worth unscrewing it from the wall to check for that...

Everyone who should know...knows to announce themselves before entering my house. Well everyone except my idiot brother who feels the need to bang on my window instead of ringing the door bell or call my cell, he learned his lesson the hard way though... He was temporarily blind for about 2 minutes when i answered the door with my flashlight, pistol in belt. He wasn't too happy, but then again neither was I.

The last house I had with an outside keypad to open the garage door also still had the factory sticker on the back of the keypad, with the combination printed on it.    

 

If you have a keypad you didn't install yourself, it's worth unscrewing it from the wall to check for that...

Good advice, but I did install it myself and programmed it.  Thanks.

I'm puzzled why he wouldn't call you first and knock on the front door instead of going through the garage.

I'm puzzled why he wouldn't call you first and knock on the front door instead of going through the garage.

Probably because we never use the front door and he grew up here.  I have no problem of that, I think it was a smart thing to text us (or call).

Probably because we never use the front door and he grew up here.  I have no problem of that, I think it was a smart thing to text us (or call).

Yes indeed. We use the back door 97% of the time. Even people who pull up in front walk around to the back.

 

I'm interested in this topic because my son will be leaving for college in a year or two. It's probably a good idea to have this type of discussion with children who live away, even if you don't expect them to show up at 3:00 am, as my daughter did four nights ago. She called to say she was attending a concert in Philadelphia and that a friend would be driving her home around that time. 

I used to have access to several family houses like that, but I would always announce myself upon entering, and they would respond in kind. Not that it would have mattered much, as none of them are/were gun owners... 

I am very remote.  First time the mailman came to the door, he was taken aback by the fact that I was armed. 

 

I certainly was not pointing my firearm at him, but I also, most certainly, had my hand on my hip when I answered (not opened) the door.

when I go into a place where I am not usually, but can be expected to be (Moms house).  Ring bell,  enter and loudly announce "Mom, it's Pete" makes things a lot simpler.

Thus, he would be through all the perimeter controls

No claymores?

when I go into a place where I am not usually, but can be expected to be (Moms house).  Ring bell,  enter and loudly announce "Mom, it's Pete" makes things a lot simpler.

 

Sometimes, when it's a friend (that I know is armed at home), I'll pull up in the driveway and then call on my cell to let them know I'm there, rather than just go up to the door.