Posted: 7/1/2002 7:42:32 AM EDT
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As part of my security training I’ve been taught to avoid information leakage, letting a potential thief from fingerprinting your system with the information needed for a successful burglary. As an example any safe can be cracked with the right tools, blueprints, knowledge of your movements, etcetera. A thread on another board where a guy had an AK hanging from his wall when the police came to his door got me thinking how long would it take a casual visitor to your home, say the cable guy, from discovering you’re a “gun enthusiast”. 1. Less than ten seconds. There’s a rifle hanging from my wall, the gun safe is sitting under my television, gun magazines are on the coffee table which is littered with loose ammo, and there’s an NRA sticker on my truck and my front windows of my trailer home. 2. A few minutes. My safe is in a back room, I watch what evidence is left in view, I’m careful who I let into my home and sanitize it before hand but looking around one could discover my “hobby”. 3. About ten minutes. My safe is hidden (or I don’t have one), there isn’t anything lying around the house at all, I go out of the way to avoid being seen taking weapons to the car, I use lighting timers to make the house look occupied, etc. 4. Never. A gun is the house is 42 times more likely to kill someone in the house than fly south for the winter, I live in a “gun free zone” in federal housing, and Al Gore says they’re scary. |
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I voted a 3, but I believe I'm more of a 2 1/2. Occasionally a cartridge will get left on the dresser, or the Blue Press will be laying with the days mail on the bar. Mostly I keep my hobby under wraps, friends and neighbors that want to be cordial, know and neighbors who ignore me and general acquanitances, don't need to know. Ryan |
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"It depends." Upstairs (main entry/living area) -- forget it. Basement -- about three seconds. Funny story: a former friend had a new girlfriend who had been spending every waking moment at his place for at least two months. I made some gun-related comment while visiting. She freaked out, and demanded to know if her boyfriend had any of those awful, awful guns. I guess she never noticed the NRA refrigerator magnet, his books on marksmanship in his living-room bookcase, or the boxes of ammo in his closet. . . . |
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