My family always kind of jokes about me always having a gun close by, even in my house...
My father is a retired LEO. He is a gun owner and him and my mother are both comfortable with firearms. Where I look at firearms for the self defense factor my parents have always thought of them for sporting purpose. My father being ex-LEO has always thought of his guns as a tool he used at work, nothing more. There is no shortage of firearms in their house though they are all locked downstairs in the safe.
With my brother and I both moved out they are home most of the time alone as my little sister is always out with friends.
This past week they were gone for 7 days and my brother and I would go by twice a day to let the dog out and turn lights on in different rooms and flip TVs on to make it look as though someone was home.
The first night they were home, while laying in bed upstairs with only the bedroom light on as they read before going to sleep, they heard a noise.
The way my dad tells it is that 9 times out of 10 my mom hears a noise and he has to tell her it was nothing. This time they both looked at one another and flipped off the bedroom lights.
It was the sound of a key going into the doorlock and being wiggled... Then nothing.
My parents told me that with 3 kids growing up in that house they had heard keys going in and out of that lock thousands of times before but this time it felt different.
My father grabbed his cellphone off his nightstand and called my sister to ask her where she was and if she was outside the house. She said no and my father hung up the phone.
He knew my brother and I would not stop by unannounced so he got out of bed and walked to the bedroom door. If he would peek out of the bedroom door he would be able to look down the stairs at the front door where they heard the noise coming from.
Just as he stuck his head out of the room he heard a thud on the front door, and then another harder thud. My father with is adrenaline pounding, realizing that they were about to be victims of a home invasion, he flicked on the light to the foyer from just outside his bedroom.
He said that he heard what sounded like a key being ripped out of the lock and then nothing.
After this incident my parents now keep a firearm in their bedroom. Sometimes all it takes is a scare.
My father is a retired LEO. He is a gun owner and him and my mother are both comfortable with firearms. Where I look at firearms for the self defense factor my parents have always thought of them for sporting purpose. My father being ex-LEO has always thought of his guns as a tool he used at work, nothing more. There is no shortage of firearms in their house though they are all locked downstairs in the safe.
With my brother and I both moved out they are home most of the time alone as my little sister is always out with friends.
This past week they were gone for 7 days and my brother and I would go by twice a day to let the dog out and turn lights on in different rooms and flip TVs on to make it look as though someone was home.
The first night they were home, while laying in bed upstairs with only the bedroom light on as they read before going to sleep, they heard a noise.
The way my dad tells it is that 9 times out of 10 my mom hears a noise and he has to tell her it was nothing. This time they both looked at one another and flipped off the bedroom lights.
It was the sound of a key going into the doorlock and being wiggled... Then nothing.
My parents told me that with 3 kids growing up in that house they had heard keys going in and out of that lock thousands of times before but this time it felt different.
My father grabbed his cellphone off his nightstand and called my sister to ask her where she was and if she was outside the house. She said no and my father hung up the phone.
He knew my brother and I would not stop by unannounced so he got out of bed and walked to the bedroom door. If he would peek out of the bedroom door he would be able to look down the stairs at the front door where they heard the noise coming from.
Just as he stuck his head out of the room he heard a thud on the front door, and then another harder thud. My father with is adrenaline pounding, realizing that they were about to be victims of a home invasion, he flicked on the light to the foyer from just outside his bedroom.
He said that he heard what sounded like a key being ripped out of the lock and then nothing.
After this incident my parents now keep a firearm in their bedroom. Sometimes all it takes is a scare.
