Every year millions of homes in the U.S. fall victim to burglars. It’s not exactly an uncommon occurrence, even in the nicest of neighborhoods. However, breaking and entering tends to peak during the holiday season.
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Safety & Security
How To Harden Your Home Using the Cheapest Materials on the Market
There are steps you can take at home to make your property harder to enter and to enable you to defend it.
Using Plants to Secure The Home
These days, having a security alarm may not always deter burglars and criminals from breaking into your home. By making some minor adjustments to the landscaping of the yard, you can create secure perimeter around the property so that criminals will think twice before attempting to break in.
Boom: The Deadliest (and Coolest) Slingshot You’ve Ever Seen
In an emergency, this silent weapon can have deadly force.
Guns for Gals: Recommendations from a Green Beret
The single most effective defense occurs when multiple firers concentrate their fires on a target. Therefore, home defense cannot be solely up to the man of the home. Here is a great list for firearms and a few home-defense pointers that the prepper chicks will find most helpful.
Immediate Actions You Must Take If You’re About to be Attacked
Fight that good fight, and fight it smart. You don’t have to be the smartest guy or gal in the world: just be smarter than the goof that wants to attack you, and remember that discretion is the better part of valor.
Long-Term Security and Defense
Long-term emergencies require long-term defense plans and strategies. Contributing author, Max Velocity goes into detail on how to prepare for, train and what the best strategies are for defending your home in a long-term emergency. This a MUST-READ!
The Ten Commandments of Safe Gun Handling
Many are keenly aware that crime is steadily increasing. Crimes such as home invasions, kidnapping, and petty theft are making their way into the so-called "safer neighborhoods," thus causing individuals to grow more concerned. Many believe this is due to a failing...
Sustainable in the City: 7 Ways to Mask Food Aromas When the SHTF
A fear of many preppers during the beginning stages of a true SHTF event, is how our smells, as well as the aromas from foods we prepare could attract unwanted visitors. Here are 7 ways to conceal food aromas in a SHTF event.
Take Action: How Immediate Action Drills Can Reduce Reaction Times in Emergencies
The only thing more important than reaction time is reacting effectively, and not suffering from the “paralysis of analysis,” or staying rooted in place and doing nothing. Practice what you are going to do in a life-threatening situation in each of these areas of your day.
5 Lifesaving Security Measures to Secure Your Home From Intruders
These five simple security measures will ensure your home stays out of the watchful eye of an intruder.
Alert: Your Cell Phone is Spying on You! 4 Ways to Block Your Cell Phone and Prevent Being Monitored
Make no mistake – they are listening to you and invading your privacy, but there are ways to block the signal.
Firearm Training: How Draw Drills Will Sharpen your Handgun Combat Skills
All the certifications in the world are no substitute for the basic fundamentals of marksmanship and the ability to employ them.
The Importance of Firearms Maintenance in the Wintertime
Did you know that metal tends to “sweat” with a change in temperature? In order to take good care of your firearms, make sure you do this maintenance once a week.
7 Brute Ways To Protect Yourself From Barbarian Hoards in a Collapse
Let’s list some of these ancient tribesmen and some of the tactics that enabled them to succeed, and we’ll draw a correlation as to how we may emulate some of these tactics.
They Bound Her Wrists In Duct Tape – What She Did Next Could Save Your Life!
What happens if you find yourself bound in duct tape? Home invasions are escalating and you never know what could happen next. Do not fear, however, because you can get out just as easily as you get in! This life hack may actually save your life.
Your Home Security Plan Is At Risk Without This Essential Prep
You have valuable possessions and documents that need safeguarding; and without this essential home security prep – all could be lost.
Hidden in Plain Sight: How To Create a Strategic Spider-Hole
In a worst-case scenario, give yourself a hidden edge for when the SHTF and the going gets rough.
5 Everyday Items That Will Double as Defensive Weapons
Know how to take a stand and defend yourself using the tools you have on hand. These five everyday items can double as self-defense weapons and help you better survive an attack.
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The Best TSA-Approved Multi-Tools For Survival Or Self-Defense
Traveling can be fun, but going through the Transportation Security Administrations checkpoints can leave you feeling exploited and defenseless. The TSA’s rules are constantly changing, and it can be difficult to know what you are allowed to have on a plane. Because of this, we’ve broken down the best survival and self-defense tools TSA will allow in this handy guide.
These Simple Training Techniques Will Prepare You For Emergency Hand-to-Hand Combat
This self-defense training tool that will give you the opportunity to learn new skills and reinforce old ones in your repertoire.
50 Simple Tools Used to Rebuild Haiti
Rebuilding is an inevitable part of putting our lives back together after a disaster. Relief workers are still on the island trying to rebuild Haiti and have begun their reconstruction process using 50 tools.
10 Tips To Teach Kids About Internet Safety
Our children live in such a drastically different world as we grew up in. Dangers seem to be around every corner, and the Internet has invited those dangers into our homes and our children’s bedrooms.
How To Put Measures Together to Weatherproof Food and Water in Winter
The bottom line is that most of us are in a vehicle and/or away from home much of the day, whether winter or summer. Winter is a little different, as it poses challenges and perils that are not necessarily addressed as easily as in the warmer months.
Trauma Medicine: How to Use and Apply a Tourniquet
Tourniquets aren’t discussed often when it comes to prepping supplies; the focus seems to be on medical supplies such as antibiotics and simple first aid kit. But a tourniquet should be added to your gear, and there is one big life-saving reason why.
5 Ways To Keep Your Vehicle Evacuation Ready
Anyone who had the displeasure of evacuating is aware of the frustration and heightened stress levels you experience. Having a vehicle that is well stocked and evacuation ready is your ticket to a less chaotic and stressful encounter. Here are 5 ways to keep your vehicle evacuation ready.
This Winter Survival Skill Saved Two Women Lost in the Mountains
Emergency responders claim two women’s lives were saved in a recent mountain rescue because they knew this basic winter survival skill.
Do You Know How to Make Fire From Ice?
Trying to make fire from ice isn’t as easy as everyone makes it out to be. It’s not as simple as shaping a piece of ice into a lens and letting the sun shine through it.
10 Cheap Yet Effective Home Security Tips
Check out these cheap yet effective home security tips to keep your home safe and secure while making sure you have as much of your budget as possible to use for your prep.
