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Honest question for americans: do you guys use armored doors for your houses?
I'm reading of ICE breaking your doors to enter your houses and I'm here in my house, with an armored door that makes demolishing the wall an easier way to break in my house (and that it's the norm here) and I wonder if you shouldn't be using those or, if you already do, what kind of tools do ICE have to break your doors.
Plenty of us do have steel doors and dead bolts (heavy duty locks).
But the police also have these:
If they want in, they will come in.
At the very least people need to get larger strike plates that cover door lock and deadbolt and use 3” screws. Make these asshole work for it.
Yeah, if you go to the trouble of armoring your doors, you should at least apply security film to the windows (better yet, get bullet resistant windows).
Armored door? No, that is absolutely not a thing in the U.S. I've never even heard of that outside of, like, some billionaire's private compound or something
Edit: And it look like from a cursory search that they are OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive.
Metal security doors with a regular door on the inside are not that uncommon at all. Lots of people that live out in the country and in urban areas have them.
I think they mean a steel door with a solid wood core. Basically a wooden door clad in sheet steel.
They’re common in the US, especially in denser urban areas.
What? No! I mean, maybe a couple thousand? They don't really cost that much here if you want a civilian one.
And they can save your life.
Armored doors? Lol our houses are made out of cardboard and sticks.
No, most American residential doors are built to cheapest possible standards and are usually two ultra thin steel sheets with styrofoam sandwiched in between. Couple steps above cardboard.
If you want security most add an optional welded steel screen door over the top of the normal door, but it's ugly and most don't.
Source: I work for a door company
I have 12 gauge shotgun full of slugs for any criminals trying to gain illegal entry into our home, it doesn't care whether they came in through the door or not.
Sleep in the basement as long as there is no entry on that level. You'll here the commotion and you have about 30 seconds to get your gear and ambush the bottom of the stairs. Have welding glasses in your kit in case they flash out, but honestly you'll hear when they move to or from the stairs. Know the flash will come before they rush
I also drop a bunch of matchbox cars and marbles on the floor and plant tar and nails on the stairs.