Your weapon of choice for your home defense?

[Monica Lewinsky]

Here is mine.

http://learnabit.homeserver.com/lab/...Commercial.wmv

Sorry, I have to charge you for the rock AND shipping fees for the rock. :p

[Ducimus]

Can't load movie at work. But to answer the question, a 12 gauge shotgun.

- Don't have to worry so much about overpenetration through walls.

-your chances of hitting something in the dark are ALOT greater since all you have to do is point the thing at COM,

-the sound a shotgun makes as you charge the weapon is enough to dissuade most anyone and convince them to GTF OUT.

[Monica Lewinsky]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Can't load movie at work.

Go home, try again - has to be a work control thing.

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Can't load movie at work.

Might be an Internet Explorer thing as a trusted web site. The fix is in TOOLS menu, then INTERNET OPTIONS, SECURITY, then add as a trusted WEB Site.

Here is our perferred weapon for protecting our home:

http://learnabit.homeserver.com/lab/...d_2006_010.jpg

yea, that is me. Come to my house I don't have one of them but two of them. One for me, one for her. We keep 3-4 thousand rounds handy in case someone decides to bother us ... just in case . We are prepared to defend ourselves. :p

Notice I kepted my finger[s] AWAY from the trigger.

Lot's of other stuff [a lot more guns] in reserve, too. Just in case you pay us a visit!

It's all in good fun folks .... to have a laugh or two. Don't take it to a higher level, please.

FYI: Trigger locks are on every gun and we have no kids. We are DINKs ... Double Income, No Kids.

[Ducimus]

Ive had enough of the M16 varient weapons from my stint in the service. If i ever hold one in my hands again it will be too soon. For home defense, im happy with a remington 870. It's all i need to protect my home from the wouldbe intruder.
http://mountaingunworks.com/870p_hqxf.jpg
(google image search, i dont have any pictures of mine at home)

[fatty]

Nothing; nobody seems to want to break into my house for whatever reason.

[Reaves]

BEWARE OF THE DOG!





Viscious little things.

[Monica Lewinsky]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

For home defense, im happy with a remington 870. It's all i need to protect my home from the would be intruder.

It seems like the boat sailed away and I missed this one. That looks VERY interesting. thanks. Looks like her and I need to look into converting to this weapon. This appears to the new weapon for home defense as the preferred choice.

She is not crazy about shotguns ... too much power, too much hurt to the shoulder, too much mess to cleanup also. She prefers automatics weapons - point, shoot, get rid of them - let someone else clean up the mess.

Shoot and forget about them is her preferences and me too. And the mess is kept to a minimum with automatic weapons. Forget the "semi" stuff. Too many rules. Too much to remember if I did the right thing.

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by fatty

Nothing; nobody seems to want to break into my house for whatever reason.

Yup :hmm:

And if they did, I have an axe within reach.

I lived in some fairly nasty places (e.g. in Russia), and honestly the best defenses I found tended to be passive ones - I mean stuff like reinforced steel doors, powerful locks and window bars (which we always had). And since we've never been anywhere close to rich, honestly, it seems absurdly stupid that someone would go through the effort of obtaining and bringing the neccesary equipment to cut through those when there's little of anything really valuable to steal - nothing that would make the break-in when the owners would have plenty of warning and would call for help and/or resist worthwhile, and nothing to really cry over if the break-in happens while you're not home. Frugalty was a good security measure there.

Meanwhile here in Canada, living mostly in smaller, lower-middle class communities, I've never once felt unsafe. Nor have I heard of anyone being seriously harmed in a break-in within miles of where I lived. So I'd sooner install an asteroid deflection device than buy a gun here. To me that seems about as paranoid, especially after living without weapons for many years in one of the world's unsafest cities (St. Petersburg, Russia).

[Yahoshua]

Anyway, nice to be back in the real world again.

Did I miss anything interesting?

[SteveW1]

AH my trusty Driver from my golf bag will do nicely dont use for golf so burglers look out

[Monica Lewinsky]

Originally Posted by fatty

Nothing; nobody seems to want to break into my house for whatever reason.

Why would ANYONE want to enter a house in Canada? What's the point? There is nothing there to take.

Anyone else having problems with viewing the video clip?

[SteminDemon13]

S&W Model 29 .44 Magnum Silhouette

[Monica Lewinsky]

Originally Posted by SteveW1

AH my trusty Driver from my golf bag will do nicely dont use for golf so burglers look out

So you can bury my balls [golf balls] next to the old bag [golf bag]? Is that what you are saying?

[Chock]

Being in the UK, this is a contentious issue, and has resulted in a few trials whenever anyone has shot an intruder in their home. However, whereas popular opinion has generally supported the defender, the law generally makes an example of them and bangs them up in jail, usually to much outcry from the press.

Personally, if I was on a jury on a case like that, I'd recommend they get a medal rather than a custodial sentence, but there you go. From that you can probably gather that if anyone comes into my home uninvited, I'd regard them as fair game for anything they got, which they would most assuredly have asked for.

So with that said, I have several weapons in my house and have taught my wife how to use them too. Most of them are of the fairly non-lethal variety, i.e powerful air-weapons, rather than firearms, including one that can repeat fire fairly rapidly, which is the one I've told my wife to use in an emergency, and I told her to go for headshots too. There is particularly nasty rifle though, should the situation warrant it, as well as an extremely powerful (300lb pull) crossbow with a telescopic sight which would probably do more damage than the pistol, but is obviously a one shot deal as it takes a few seconds to reload (we keep it in the bedroom with a bolt in it, but uncocked, and there are weapons distributed throughout the house in various locations, so that we could always get to one). However, if, and it's a big if, we had to use lethal force, it would be the crossbow we'd use as it is pretty accurate out to about 150 yards.

I hope I never have to use any of them, but I'm quite prepared to if it comes to defending my wife or myself, and I am a good shot too, being a member of a field target shooting club, where I usually shoot tiny (coin sized) targets outside at fairly long ranges.

But, the first line of defence in our house is the fact that we have eight dogs, including Dave, my huge German Shepherd Dog. I wouldn't feck with him if I were an intruder:rotfl:

Chock

[d@rk51d3]

Got a nice wrecking bar under the bed, with a sharp hooked end. Would fit nice and snug under an intruders jawbone.