bradaz11 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 6:47 pm
why lock the door to the room they're in? if they want to break into your cabinets while you are gone, you think a lock on the door to that room is going to stop them?
my view is it is a non issue. you are allowed to go and leave your house in control of your spouse (non fac) for extended periods of time with no thought or issues raised. If you have children, you leave them home alone if they are old enough and they may have friends over, again, this wouldn't trigger any alarm bells. so why would asking a friend, or hiring a service to do this be a red flag?
we have a dog walker, she has access to the house, and even knows roughly what time we would likely be home on a given day, is that a concern? no of course it isn't.
STOP MAKING UP ADDITIONAL RULES LEST THEY BECOME LAWS!
can you imagine if having an FAC meant you could never let anyone into your house when you weren't present - spouse and kids included, or wife / kids etc could never invite friends over. You could never have workmen in the house. Going away for 2 weeks? ooops, no, lodge your guns! f*ck that
I lock the door when I'm out for a number of reasons. Security, peace of mind, plod like it when I apply for yet another variation. It avoids the occasional workman or houseguest seeing it. To them it's just a study.
It's not a token door. It's a solid wood door hanging off three stout hinges with three locks in alignment.
It's one more layer in a casual burglar situation, with a spiteful loud ear-piercing alarm seperate from the alarm system proper and a camera also separate from the alarm system. The door is also hooked up to my alarm. No housesitter is going to break down my door out of curiosity. But if they were able to wander about in my study they would know I had guns of some description. I have no idea nor control over whom they might casually mention that to or the kind of people they may know. So I take that risk out of the equation by keeping them in the dark.
Also, when living in London I was the victim of a burglary, I never want to have a useless flatfoot in my house again. Two days after the event we had a visit from plod who dusted for prints. The bloke was practically gushing over how professional and neat the burglar had been. "Of course we'll never catch him." I got the impression the dabs guy would have preferred to have dated him. "Look how he's carefully removed the putty to pull the glass quietly out, even the pins are gone. And he took the putty, possibly because he'd taken his gloves off to do it and didn't want prints lying in it. Very clever."
We'd lost a lot of stuff and had files ransacked. And this guy was creaming himself at his professionalism.
I digress. The extra security is another layer between me and the headlines 'HUGE CACHE OF FIREARMS STOLEN FROM LOCAL GUN NUT' or 'unbelivably, the local resident had an armoury with barely any security.'
No copper is going to be able to say I didn't play my part.
Not even my close neighbours know I have firearms. So I'll never have the nasty neighbour trying to create grief by lying about me brandishing / threatening / whatever with guns.
That's just how I roll.