something like in the movie the book of eli?

 

Seems pointless... I can grab a piece of wood put it across then walk across what's to stop me? Trap doors work as traps with spikes in them but putting it in your house right now is a little out there. You can use sharpened sticks to force someone to slow down don't want to be impalied so they have to go slow to get through it and slowing people down is better then a hole in the grounds so to speak.

 

I'm thinking a 6 x 6 foot door that would only open when you want it to.
That way you can spring it on unwanted people.

 

Put Punji sticks in the bottom for good measure.

Rancher

 

go with the "crispy critter" method instead .... flame thrower even works on those Watch Tower religious doorknockers ....

 

Bambo spikes are always nice ---

 

Just out of curiosity . . . what are you gonna do with them after you trap them?????

 

Have them for lunch

 

Never considered it. I like the whole not going to jail thing.

 

I imagine when the door malfunctions and kills the mailman; you'll be safe in prison when the economy collapses.

 

Just another letter carrier that never came back --- happens all the time

We need minimum age requirements on this forum.

Written I/Q test's :thumb:

 

Good way to end up in jail or civil court or both for long time.

 

totally agree,
Donifini not to be disrespectful but your post is ridiculous and really don't see were it has any reality to prepping.

 

We need minimum age requirements on this forum.

 

I was laughing until I realized you are serious.

 

"It puts the lotion on the skin or else it gets the hose again!"

That's Great, LOL ! ! !

 

"something like in the movie the book of eli?"

My first thought was Wiley Coyote and The Roadrunner.

I'm sure Acme has just the thing in their catalog.

 

The post office is almost out of business anyway, so I am not worried about that.

 

Security is a form of prepping, that topic is all over this forum.

But this trap door idea is insane on a variety of fronts.

First off it's going to land you in jail the same as any other booby traps.

Second, the cost of digging out an eight foot deep (and what's going to stop one bad guy trapped from giving the second bad guy trapped, a boost up and out. But the cost of doing this, lining it with a cement bottom and sides I'm assuming, gee wiz, why not just beef up your door with the money that your trap door concept would end up costing.

For the rest of us sane folks, unwanted home intruders are dwelt with by more legal means and far less costly both in acquisition and in legal fees after.

 

Trap doors to actually trap people, or anything that could be considered a booby trap, could get you in a serious pile of hurt.

Now, trap doors in the floor inside your house with access to outside does make a lot of sense, as long as the exit is some distance away from the house and not visible from near the house.

After SHTF, then all bets are off. Punji pits, anti personel mines, and other booby traps on trails and access points to your house would only make for improved security.

 

Your biggest challenge will be to only have it open when you want it to.

If you don't want them crawling out, why not make it 50 feet deep?

 

"After SHTF, then all bets are off. Punji pits, anti personel mines, and other booby traps on trails and access points to your house would only make for improved security."

Don't kid yourself, law and order will always in the end, be restored...and there will always be a day of reckoning.

 

that's the same thing I always say .... the likelihood of the world going TEOTWAWKI, from even the most severe SHTF, is nearly zero .....

these guys planning on killing everyone in sight, spiking heads, hanging bodies, imprisoning people, looting, pillaging and raping will eventually face justice .... most likely martial law with a rope noose sentence imposed

 

I thought this thread was about the rifles. Oh well.

 

Ha ha ha ha!:thumb:

Seriously tho, that sounds like a **** load of insurance liability.

 

Only home owners insurance won't cover that.

 

because most of these guys are nuts.

 

Years after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, two separate cases involving N.O.P.D. officers, one case where two policeman murdered a person seeking information from the local police station, then they burned his body in his automobile and tried to cover it up...second case involved five I think was the number, policeman that opened fire on unarmed no threat to the police, civilians on the Danziger Bridge in New Orleans.

Now then ask yourself, if police who can cover up evidence, eventually are brought to justice, how much more so for anyone else.

Decades and decades later, Germans involved in war crimes are still being brought to justice.

New Orleans in Katrina's aftermath was about as Wild West as it gets, clearly the Wildest West in my lifetime. And even those in a position to cover up and distort and destroy evidence were eventually brought to justice to pay the piper.

Those who murdered civil rights workers in Mississippi eventually were apprehended. One as recent as just a couple of years ago, close to fifty years later.

The dust will always settle no matter how large the fire or explosion, event.

 

Who among us can tell the future, and what and what not to prep for?
I am not saying trap doors are a good idea. Yet I have seen videos of
people breaking into a house to take a gun from an old woman after Katrina.

My point is: you could set up a trap door and never use it. Just like many of us hope to never have to shoot a person with our guns.

BUT when and if they come to take YOUR guns, wouldn't you like to think you would not just hand them over with out a fight?

Those of you that are worrying about liability after SHTF in a WROL situation should just sell their guns and buy more twinkles IMO.

A trap door may just give you some time to bug out. History repeats itself, when the Nazis went door to door to search for the Jews, this was something we could learn from, and prep for, because there will always be something the government wants to ban, confiscate, or destroy.

Here in Maryland, we have an AR-15 ban in effect. We have to be fingerprinted to buy a handgun. But they have not figured out how to ban traps doors......yet.

 

I'm guessing it's already banned, illegal.

A gun ban was already in effect in Germany prior to the NAZI's assuming power under the old republic.. Jews were further banned from said ownership under the Nazi regime.

 

Guess again. If a trap door is made correctly it should not be detected. Like many guns, its only illegal if its used, or detected.

My pump shot gun is not illegal until I load it, take it out side and people see it.
Thats my state and city. YMMV and there is no point pointing out whats illegal on a forum where we are talking about something to different people in different cities in different countries.

 

It would be difficult to floor trap/spring trap/dead fall, every possible entry point. What about the bad guys that don’t knock and want to come through a window? You can’t take the easy route and say “firearms and personal defense” as that is just as easily accomplished with a forced front door entry debunking your need for door trap there. I think you need to step back and reevaluate what your goals are for this venture. Best would be motion detectors, and security cameras, this lets you evaluate and pick the proper response being $20 for girl scout cookies or the shotgun.