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- From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Gun in an Apartment
- Message-ID: <11.7.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 16:09:50 GMT
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- -> Why not consider having your apartment lock(s) changed/upgraded?
- -> Seems like a small price to pay for added security. Anytime I move
- -> that's the first thing I do -- regardless of what my landlord says. I
- -> keep a lot of my "stuff" in my apartment all the time.
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- I've had occasion to kick open two or three doors. Damned near
- sprained my whole leg, but when they open they usually take a big chunk
- of the frame with them. In one case (a cheap contractor-type prehung
- door) it pulled the whole board out of its cheap staples, knocked off
- the corner molding, and that was that. I was able to "repair" it later
- by simply hammering the finishing nails back in.
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- At a minimum, you need a 10ga or so steel plate with either bolts or
- several large screws running into the studs alongside the door. Even
- fancy locks aren't worth much in the typical apartment or tract-house
- doorframe.
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