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Yes, all the time. If the front door is open, the combination glass and screen door is latched.

Deadbolts always engaged at night and when we are not home. When we are on a trip, the power to the automatic garage doors is cut off and a security latch engaged on each.

Gun safe is bolted to the floor and 2x4 studs inside a closet, the door to that closet also has a sturdy lock on it.

Even in a small town like we live in, the crime rate is soaring and the P.D.'s normal compliment of 2 officers has been cut in half thanks to an incompetent Mayor who thinks this is the old days when a BG could be talked out of doing anything wrong. Meth labs are a big problem out here, crime is up so folks can pay for drugs, and the Mayor and City Council have their collective heads stuck in the sand.

A great way to know what is going on inside your home at night is to utilize the cheap 2 way plug in intercoms from Radio Shack. I have one in the garage and at night, I lock the transmitter button on. The receiver is by my bedside, on with the volume set to where something happens inside my garage, I can hear it instantly.