I dont know where you hide them,so I dont know if this is applicable or not,but someone breaking into your house to come kill you is one thing,they are likely to be searching for places where you or your family are hiding. Someone breaking into your house to find money or something to sell is quite another. They are going to be looking in all the places that people hide things. If they get lucky,they might find your gun. Actually,considering that guns ARE something valuable to sell,they will probably be looking for just that,and if they are good at their craft,which many criminals are, they might just find one. The more you hide,the more likely they are to find one. If I was that worried,actually,when I was that worried,becuase I lived in a bad neighborhood,I just wore a gun in a holster most of the time. That way I dont have to worry about having one within reach,and I dont have to worry about arming the punk that breaks in looking for crack money,who was either too stupid,or too high to wait until I left. I dont know that this is or is not the case for you,as I dont know where and how you hide your guns,its just something I like to keep in mind.
I have all the bases covered for me and where I live, nobody can get close to the property or house without lots of noise and commotion from dogs, of course if nobody is home they can kill the dogs, but if nobody is home all my weapons have been rounded up and locked in the safe with all the rest...and with the dogs dead and lots of time, they will get the entire safe anyway if there is tons of time. If someone is home, which is most all the time, it just depends on who lives and who doesn't after a confrontation. I find that dogs (more than one) are really really good alarm systems, they are not designed to protect you, just to alert you so you can protect them. These kinds of dogs can seem like a real pain, making way too much noise if anyone stops over over walks by the property, even raising heck at night with any little thing and waking you up if a critter makes a noice outside, sometimes it's hard to not tell them to shut up, I just have to remember they are the alarm system and put up with it. I would not recommend my ways or how I choose to live with my guns to anyone else ever, everyone has different circumstances and lives in a different place, but I figure I am free to make my choices for my situation. I will only go so far in protection from criminal activity, when nobody is home I do what I can to slow them up with access to my stuff, if I am home I prefer access to more loaded weapons, and that is not because I am thnking about criminals or paranoid, it might be because they are also used for tools in some cases around the place.
I won't let criminals dictate to me how many firearms I have access to while I'm home or where they are. That is only my view, for where I live, and I am sure if I lived in other places I would need to re-think all that, so your point is very well taken.
Jim
