Did some Safe Room training with the young grandkids this past weekend [View all]

To me, a gun or guns are tools in the home defense toolbox, and they are the tools of last resort when all else fails or is breached. This post may not fit the group's SOP but I don't know where else in DU I could post it, but it might as the designated safe room in my home is where the gun is secured.

The drill is pretty simple, they are young after all, and it consists of whenever they hear me, or my wife yell out "Safe Room! Safe Room!" they are to move quickly upstairs, making sure that any of the youngest grandchildren they may be with is also with them, go into the master bedroom, which is the designated safe room, shut the door and then go to the side of the bed farthest from the door and hunker down. Then I went into the room and told them they did a good job. We did this three times when they were playing and not expecting it. They did well.

The part that we don't train with the kids is where my wife and I will both also go to the safe room, lock and deadbolt the door and then I get my revolver from the gun safe if I think that's needed. My wife and I will be the last going to the room as we'll be ensuring all the grandkids are taken care of. If the threat is immediate, I may stay behind to confront the home invaders directly hopefully giving everyone else time to get to the bedroom and lock the door. There's a cell phone on my nightstand in the bedroom which can be used to call 911 and that's all its used for just in case my wife or I can't bring our own to the bedroom with us.

Next time they come over, we'll do the safe room drill plus if they bring their nerf guns with them, we'll do gun safety training using the nerf guns.

Again, I don't know if this OP meets the group's SOP and if it gets locked, that's fine with me.


Edit: Right now, the revolver in the gun safe in the bedroom is empty. The ammo is in a metal ammo box in the basement secured with a padlock. I haven't kept up with my training ever since I fell down the basement stairs and had my shoulder replaced so that's the way it's going to be until my training with the gun is back up to my standards.