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What Makes A Good Home Self Defense Gun?
19FortyFive ^ | 1/23/2021 | Peter Suicu

Posted on 01/23/2021 2:23:53 PM PST by Onthebrink

Here in the United States, there are many issues that people love to debate. While politics tops the list today, there are certainly other issues that could divide the country and leave people flustered and downright hostile. Up there with the best city for pizza or whether baseball should have a designated hitter rule is the issue of “what makes a good home self-defense gun?”

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TOPICS: Government; History; Military/Veterans; Politics
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To: Onthebrink
One that fits well in your hand.

61 posted on 01/23/2021 2:57:05 PM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Pontiac

They do.
Look up the SilencerCo Salvo.


62 posted on 01/23/2021 2:57:42 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Only a moronic, suicidal group would try a Great Purge 2021 on an armed American. We're ready!)
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To: Onthebrink

The one you have right now, in your hands or on your person. The rest are junk until you are within arms reach.


63 posted on 01/23/2021 2:58:15 PM PST by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War" )
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To: Onthebrink

I like post #2, the one in your hand, but my gun of choice is a pump shotgun. Mine happens to be 16 gauge, because I got a good deal 30 years ago. At home defense range even if I run out of buckshot, the #5 shot I also have will do the job. 15 feet away it’s still less than a foot wide pattern. Bird shot would work.

More recently I snagged a 9mm, which one I would grab depends on whether I have time to plan or have to grab and fire. In a pinch, it’s the shotgun. Last thing a burglar wants to hear is when I rack one into the chamber. That’s why it’s the only one in the house without a round already there.

For the beginner, definitely shotgun, and get some practice using it. A pump can fire almost as fast as a semi auto, if you know how to use it. I’ve been called on that one, I can back it up.

You want to know how freakin LOUD the thing is, and how hard it hits your shoulder. I fired a 22 pistol in the cab of a truck one day. (22 Llama semi auto, snake in a ditch). Sounded like a damn hand grenade...didn’t do that again...


64 posted on 01/23/2021 2:58:35 PM PST by Paleo Pete (What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.)
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To: ETCM

“Preparedness and practice.”

This.


65 posted on 01/23/2021 3:03:20 PM PST by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If a shotgun is good enough for Jill Biden its good enough for me.


66 posted on 01/23/2021 3:04:46 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Under a high stress situation where you feel you have to use a gun, you will barely notice the sound. Really.


67 posted on 01/23/2021 3:04:52 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (If the meanings in the Constitution can change, why did they bother writing it down?)
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To: Nailbiter

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68 posted on 01/23/2021 3:04:55 PM PST by Nailbiter
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1
I prefer the plasma rifle. Easy to clean up afterwards as it vaporizes the target.

I know it’s a gag but the reality of what a plasma rifle would do is just the opposite.

The human body being mostly water would explode like can of spray paint in a fire.

Water expands 1700 times as it goes from liquid to gas.

Just imagine the water inside a human skin changing from liquid to gas in a fraction of a second.

It would be quite messy. I would not want to be in the same room.

69 posted on 01/23/2021 3:05:01 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: Onthebrink
For me, one I can use from my bed to bedroom door, while crouched in a cast iron bathtub, or down a stairwell with a really bright light in a intruder's face. A good defensive position tends to even out disadvantages in hardware.
70 posted on 01/23/2021 3:06:43 PM PST by Widget Jr
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71 posted on 01/23/2021 3:06:43 PM PST by V_TWIN (Where's Hunter???)
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To: Fai Mao

Place all bullets in center body mass, they don’t tend to leave the walls then. /s

870 pump works well. 00 buck, or 00-slug-00-slug-00-slug. Mix and match for your preference.


72 posted on 01/23/2021 3:07:04 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, )
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To: V_TWIN

Firing a weapon indoors is dangerous to your own hearing. If you are surprised at home, you may not want to take the time to put on hearing protection - and there may be tiny other people nearby who do not understand enough to put on hearing protection. Hence, a suppressor.


73 posted on 01/23/2021 3:12:27 PM PST by mbj
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To: Onthebrink

One that works.


74 posted on 01/23/2021 3:12:44 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Onthebrink

You know your house better than the intruder. A surprise visit from a Louisville Slugger also works.


75 posted on 01/23/2021 3:13:18 PM PST by PGalt
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

I put earplugs in all my gun cases along with speed loaders or extra magazines as required for the particular pistol. I don’t want to be deafened into just one shot. Alas then I lost them all in a boating accident.


76 posted on 01/23/2021 3:13:25 PM PST by diatomite (That grifter crook Biden or Kamella isn't my president and never will be!! Resist!!)
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To: V_TWIN

No, but I will suggest. He bought me a 38special. Is what you are recommending easier, perhaps?


77 posted on 01/23/2021 3:13:49 PM PST by hoe_cake
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

or a 20 ga for the ladies at home alone - or if you’re older.


78 posted on 01/23/2021 3:15:06 PM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: Onthebrink

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79 posted on 01/23/2021 3:15:44 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There’s never any love for the semi-auto shotgun in these threads so I’m gonna give it some. I’d take a Benelli M4 over an 870 any day.


80 posted on 01/23/2021 3:16:21 PM PST by RC one (Lying, cheating, deceiving & manipulating are as natural to Democrats as swimming is to fish.)
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