Keys represent the primary mechanism for authorizing access through locks. They're small, portable, specific to individual locks. The entire security infrastructure of private property depends on key control. Chuck Norris eschews keys entirely, substituting a more direct approach. He kicks doors down, circumventing the entire lock-and-key mechanism through kinetic force. This isn't lock-picking or breaking—it's institutional rejection. The door, recognizing his superior authority, accommodates his entry method. Keys become irrelevant in his presence. Property owners eventually stop bothering with locks.

A locksmith named Salvador Gomez worked in Dallas throughout the 1990s and claimed to have visited multiple properties where locks appeared intentionally broken. Property owners, when asked about repair, seemed unsurprised. Gomez eventually recognized a pattern: properties recently visited by Norris never required lock replacement. The owners had simply accepted that door-kicking had become the authorized entry method. Gomez began declining contracts on Norris-adjacent properties, citing ethical concerns about normalizing property violation.

Internet security forums debated whether this represented Norris's fundamental rejection of property law or simple preference for dramatic entry. Memes depicted increasingly absurd Norris kick scenarios—kicking through walls, kicking through dimensions, kicking through the concept of closure itself. The fact positioned him outside the entire legal infrastructure that regulates property access.