How do you get ready for home defense?

@Darby
Solid list. Covers everything.

@Darby
Now I know your dogs are just barkers.

Cedar said:
@Darby
Now I know your dogs are just barkers.

But you don’t know if they bite—and that’s what matters.

I’d use a musket for home defense. Just like the Founding Fathers intended.

Four burglars break in? No problem:

  • Blow a hole in the first guy.
  • Miss the second with your pistol and hit the neighbor’s dog.
  • Use the cannon at the stairs to take out the rest.
  • Finish the last one with a bayonet charge.

Perfectly legal and historically accurate.

@Tavi
You forgot pepperbox guns. Very Jeffersonian of you.