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USCCA® Home Protection SnapshotTM
Home Protection Is More Than Just a Lock and a Gun
The first few decisions of home protection are the easy ones. Home Protection is about more than the physical security of your household. It's about three phases of preparation. Because true safety starts with knowing what to do if someone tries to test your home security.
Your first step
What is the Home Protection Snapshot?
The Home Protection Snapshot is a scored system designed to show you how prepared your home is.
It adjusts as you check off items from the customized Home Protection Blueprint. It shows you how to upgrade your home from one that looks attractive to criminals, to one designed to keep you and your family safe and ready.
Your Home Protection Snapshot helps you discover:
Which part of your entry door gives out first when someone puts a shoulder into it. It is not the part most households spend money upgrading, and the fix runs about twenty dollars and twenty minutes.
Where a person can stand at your front door without anyone on the street seeing them (clearing it is free, takes twenty minutes, and needs doing again next year).
One item on your Blueprint takes two minutes, costs nothing, and is still sitting open in almost every household that takes safety seriously.
How to pick one word that puts your whole household into motion, without anyone stopping to ask what you meant ... and the plan that walks all of you through choosing it.
Why the footage your camera caught may not be available (or accessible) and what you can do to never worry about it again.
And so much more
Customized planBuilt around your house
Being fully covered
When Customization Matters to Your Home Protection
A solid home protection plan covers three stretches of time.
What belongs in each one depends on your house, your household, and what you already have in place.
Before anyone reaches your door.
Doors, windows, lighting, and sightlines. Someone decides whether your house is worth trying before they ever touch it, and almost everything that shapes that decision is visible from the sidewalk.
If someone gets inside.
Who does what, where everyone goes, and whether any of it has been said out loud. This is the part equipment cannot do for you.
The next morning.
Your state's laws, your camera footage, and supplies you can find in the dark. Most home security advice stops before this part.
Statistically Speaking, Not All Homes Are Judged The Same By Criminals
83%
of burglars say they check for signs of a security system before deciding whether to break in. Most who find one go looking for an easier target.1
- Sources: Kentucky Dept. of Criminal Justice Training / UNC Charlotte, “Through the Eyes of a Burglar” (2013)
That means the way your home looks to a criminal could be exactly what deters them from testing your family's safety.
The USCCA Home Protection Snapshot is here to help you make your home look and feel safe through three distinct times … before they enter, while they're inside, and the days, weeks, months, and years after the incident has passed.
Complete protector
Equipment Protects a Home. A Plan Protects a Household.
Most homes already have a few things. A lock, maybe a camera or two, and a firearm in a safe.
What far fewer homes have is an answer to the questions that come after.
Who calls 911 while someone else gets the kids?
Which room everyone goes to if someone is in the house?
Whether the door will hold long enough for help to arrive?
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Snapshot
How prepared is your home, really?
Use this Snapshot for a free look at your home's actual protection, room by room, habit by habit. No guessing. Just a clear picture and a plan to close the gaps.
Free. About 3 minutes. Your answers build your personal Blueprint.
You can't control the criminal. You can control how ready you are.
You don't get to choose who shows up, or what they're capable of. You do get to decide how hard your home is to get into, how fast your household knows what to do, and what happens in the hours after.
Know your Home Protection Score in 12 simple questions.
83% of burglars
say they check for signs of a security system before deciding whether to break in1.
Most who find one go looking for an easier target.
Source: Kentucky Dept. of Criminal Justice Training / UNC Charlotte, “Through the Eyes of a Burglar” (2013).
Preparation Tip
You don't need eyes on every angle of your property. You need eyes on the two or three that matter, and a door that holds when someone leans on it.
The most common fix here runs about $20 and takes twenty minutes. Cheap is not the same as ineffective.
Protection Tip
You're almost there...
Most gun owners don't put off training because they don't care. It lands in the “someday” pile, and someday keeps moving.
Roughly two in five gun owners have never had a formal firearms class1. Confidence that hasn't been tested is still a guess.
Source: Rowhani-Rahbar & Lyons, “Formal firearm training among adults in the USA,” Injury Prevention (July 2017).
Congrats! You've completed
the first step.
Next: building your Blueprint
Mapping your answers across your three protection areas.
Building Your Snapshot...
Prepare
Which best describes your home?
Choose an answer to continue.
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Who's in your household?
Check all that apply.
Choose an answer to continue.
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Do you have home defense tools in your home?
We ask so your Blueprint doesn't give you gun storage advice you may not need.
Choose an answer to continue.
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Which of these are already on your home?
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Which best describes your main exterior doors?
Choose an answer to continue.
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Select everything that's true about your windows.
Check all that apply.
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Protect
If someone tried to get in tonight, which describes your household's plan?
Choose an answer to continue.
Protect
Has your household picked a safe room?
One room everyone goes to. A door that locks, a phone, and a way to call for help.
Choose an answer to continue.
Protect
Has anyone in your household taken Home or Self Defense training?
Choose an answer to continue.
Aftermath
Have you looked up your state's self-defense laws?
Choose an answer to continue.
Aftermath
After a self-defense incident, would you know who to call first?
Choose an answer to continue.
Aftermath
If your camera caught something, would you know how to save the footage before it's gone?
Choose an answer to continue.
Your Home Protection Score
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Updated today.
This updates each time you check off a new item on your
customized Home Protection Blueprint.
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One more critical step…
Your Home Protection Blueprint is built. Where should we keep it?
Your customized Home Protection Blueprint is ready for you. Every open item listed in order of impact to your home's protection, with what each item costs and how long it takes.
What's included:
- The one item on your list that takes two minutes, costs nothing, and is still open in almost every household that takes this seriously.
- Where your safe room should be (and the one feature a room needs before it counts as one).
- How to pick a family safe word your household will actually use under pressure ... your blueprint walks all of you through it.
- And more
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This reflects what you've completed so far. No checklist can guarantee safety, but a practiced plan makes your household meaningfully more ready.
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This reflects what you've completed so far. No checklist can guarantee safety, but a practiced plan makes your household meaningfully more ready.