How To Literally Bulletproof Your Home: https://urbansurvivalsite.com/how-to-literally-bulletproof-your-home/
"1. Log Homes
A true log home constructed from tree trunks may offer the best natural protection from gunfire, errant or otherwise. The windows and doors and the roof are still vulnerable, ... but the logs themselves are a formidable defense from gunfire.
2. Underground Homes
Few people live in underground homes, but it's a growing trend. The defense potential is obvious as an underground home presents a very low if no profile to gunfire, with the exception of the entrance. They also tend to be located in out-of-the-way, remote locations where a smaller population decreases the odds of frequent incidents.
3. Brick Construction
Homes with a brick construction also provide a good level of natural defense against gunfire. Here again, windows and doors are vulnerable in addition to the roof, but the brick and mortar construction should stand up to most gunfire."
How to Bulletproof Walls: https://fortifiedestate.com/how-to-bulletproof-walls/
Build a safe room. (https://www.survivalsullivan.com/how-to-make-a-safe-room/)
"Instead of trying to bulletproof every wall in your home, you can turn one room into your safe haven. Ideally, this would be somewhere that your entire family can fit and where you have supplies that can help you ride out a fairly long emergency.
A spare bedroom is ideal, but a space that's window-free is even better.
Once you identify a good place for your safe room, you can focus on making it bulletproof. Installing fiberglass paneling or using BallistiCrete is the easiest way to reinforce these walls without making the space seem conspicuous. Then, you can replace the door with a bulletproof model to keep intruders out."
How to Make a Bulletproof Wall: https://modernsurvivalonline.com/how-to-make-a-bulletproof-wall/
"... an intermediate barrier is anything that a bullet will have to travel through, besides air, on its way to the intended target.
... there are two basic ways to stop a bullet reliably. The first way is to use a single sheet or layer of a hard, dense material upon which the bullet will expend all of its energy attempting to penetrate it, or else violently destruct upon impact.
The second way is to use many layers of thinner, weaker material that could not stand up against a speeding bullet on their own but together form a barrier that will rapidly and evenly deplete a bullet's energy as it attempts to pierce those multiple layers."
"In various war zones around the world standard ceramic tiles have been scavenged from all kinds of places for incorporation into a "redneck" but reasonably effective tile composite armor.
...
This method involves using an outer layer of ceramic tile, finish side out, attached to an intermediate core of wood, metal, thickly stacked paper, or some other dense material using duct tape, glue or even fabric straps.
The resulting packages are then arranged as large tiles to reinforce a wall on the inside or outside. This "sandwich" will do much to degrade several common calibers, though rifles will be trouble.
... these materials are available quite commonly and often cheaply, and all sorts of ceramic tiles can be had for pennies on the dollar from overruns, factory second sales and distributor outlets.
With some elbow grease and a little time you can usually harvest as many as you want from abandoned or condemned buildings."
"Though nowhere near as effective or reliable as legitimate soft armor, a great deal of anecdotal testing has been performed against bookcases full of books, proving its efficacy as an improvised armor.
Do note that the "strike face" of the book should be the front or back cover for best effect, as a bullet that strikes the book along the spine or opening could "slip" between the pages, reducing effectiveness.
... you have two options, the first being to strategically place bookcases to afford you maximum protection against the likely direction the threat will come from and the second being to hit up libraries, secondhand bookstores, book repositories and so forth for any old stock they are getting rid of cheaply or for free.
Old dictionaries, thick phonebooks and heavy catalogs are gold for this purpose. The subject doesn't matter so much but girthy books are better in all cases."
From comments: "A variant of the loose fill barrier is the Skousen wall. On the interior of the exterior wall(s) to be armored, cover with 1/4″ sheets of plywood. Next, screw in the thin steel spacers used as 2×4 replacements. Attach 1″ plywood to those spacers. Fill the void created with pea gravel. This is best done on slab foundations, the weight is significant."
"1. Log Homes
A true log home constructed from tree trunks may offer the best natural protection from gunfire, errant or otherwise. The windows and doors and the roof are still vulnerable, ... but the logs themselves are a formidable defense from gunfire.
2. Underground Homes
Few people live in underground homes, but it's a growing trend. The defense potential is obvious as an underground home presents a very low if no profile to gunfire, with the exception of the entrance. They also tend to be located in out-of-the-way, remote locations where a smaller population decreases the odds of frequent incidents.
3. Brick Construction
Homes with a brick construction also provide a good level of natural defense against gunfire. Here again, windows and doors are vulnerable in addition to the roof, but the brick and mortar construction should stand up to most gunfire."
How to Bulletproof Walls: https://fortifiedestate.com/how-to-bulletproof-walls/
Build a safe room. (https://www.survivalsullivan.com/how-to-make-a-safe-room/)
"Instead of trying to bulletproof every wall in your home, you can turn one room into your safe haven. Ideally, this would be somewhere that your entire family can fit and where you have supplies that can help you ride out a fairly long emergency.
A spare bedroom is ideal, but a space that's window-free is even better.
Once you identify a good place for your safe room, you can focus on making it bulletproof. Installing fiberglass paneling or using BallistiCrete is the easiest way to reinforce these walls without making the space seem conspicuous. Then, you can replace the door with a bulletproof model to keep intruders out."
How to Make a Bulletproof Wall: https://modernsurvivalonline.com/how-to-make-a-bulletproof-wall/
"... an intermediate barrier is anything that a bullet will have to travel through, besides air, on its way to the intended target.
... there are two basic ways to stop a bullet reliably. The first way is to use a single sheet or layer of a hard, dense material upon which the bullet will expend all of its energy attempting to penetrate it, or else violently destruct upon impact.
The second way is to use many layers of thinner, weaker material that could not stand up against a speeding bullet on their own but together form a barrier that will rapidly and evenly deplete a bullet's energy as it attempts to pierce those multiple layers."
"In various war zones around the world standard ceramic tiles have been scavenged from all kinds of places for incorporation into a "redneck" but reasonably effective tile composite armor.
...
This method involves using an outer layer of ceramic tile, finish side out, attached to an intermediate core of wood, metal, thickly stacked paper, or some other dense material using duct tape, glue or even fabric straps.
The resulting packages are then arranged as large tiles to reinforce a wall on the inside or outside. This "sandwich" will do much to degrade several common calibers, though rifles will be trouble.
... these materials are available quite commonly and often cheaply, and all sorts of ceramic tiles can be had for pennies on the dollar from overruns, factory second sales and distributor outlets.
With some elbow grease and a little time you can usually harvest as many as you want from abandoned or condemned buildings."
"Though nowhere near as effective or reliable as legitimate soft armor, a great deal of anecdotal testing has been performed against bookcases full of books, proving its efficacy as an improvised armor.
Do note that the "strike face" of the book should be the front or back cover for best effect, as a bullet that strikes the book along the spine or opening could "slip" between the pages, reducing effectiveness.
... you have two options, the first being to strategically place bookcases to afford you maximum protection against the likely direction the threat will come from and the second being to hit up libraries, secondhand bookstores, book repositories and so forth for any old stock they are getting rid of cheaply or for free.
Old dictionaries, thick phonebooks and heavy catalogs are gold for this purpose. The subject doesn't matter so much but girthy books are better in all cases."
From comments: "A variant of the loose fill barrier is the Skousen wall. On the interior of the exterior wall(s) to be armored, cover with 1/4″ sheets of plywood. Next, screw in the thin steel spacers used as 2×4 replacements. Attach 1″ plywood to those spacers. Fill the void created with pea gravel. This is best done on slab foundations, the weight is significant."
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