Wait, you’re a chick? That would have been important info.
.223 semi auto rifle is too long, too loud and too hard to conceal.
You want a semi auto 9mm, it won’t jump out of your hand like .44 mag, it’s high capacity and you can conceal it.
I conceal carry a Beretta Tomcat in .32cal loaded with Glaser Safeties mixed with Hydra-shocks when I’m home. I’m talking about a defensive carbine style long gun. I’ve shot my dad’s M1 carbine which I like, but it’s his. I want my own. That’s what the original question was. Which of the three would be the better brush gun. When I’m home in the states here’s where I live, the area that is. The view is looking across the water to my area. http://www.drdale.com