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.

[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?

[Fish]

Originally Posted by fatty

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

Same here.

[nikimcbee]

http://www.civilwarpreservations.com...yType=bayonets

Think carefully before climbing in my window .

Give'm the cold steel!

[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.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Monica Lewinsky

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.

My spouse prefers a handgun, its what she used the most when her father brought her shooting. I prefer a shotgun for many reasons

1. Again, no overpenetration through walls where you might accidently hit or kill your neighbor - youd be liable for that

2. A good old fashined scatter gun with double 00, will put your ass in the dirt, and your probably not going to get up. (if you dont want to kil him outright, load a birdshot shell last so its the first in the chamber, if they dont get the hint after that, your reload is a 00 )

3. More then likely, when you use this thing, it will be late at night, dark, and you'll be waking up out of bed. Point being, Aiming will be more difficult, you dont aim a shotgun, you point it.

4. Hitting center of mass with a shotgun is infintley easier, especially when your panicked or scared - and combine point 3, you more then likely will be to some degree.

5. You want to avoid that encounter to begin with, the sound of a shotgun charging is VERY distinct, and that sound alone will make someone crap their pants when they know its meant for them.

[Oberon]

There are few problems in this world that can't be solved by a TLAM...

It'd probably improve the house as well as deter any intruders.

[Monica Lewinsky]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

My spouse prefers a handgun, its what she used the most when her father brought her shooting. I prefer a shotgun for many reasons.

My spouse likes things simple. Yea, she perfers hand guns, too. Her second choice is this sort-of-plastic Baretta because of its light weight:

Light, simple to use, aim in the general direction, shoot and forget - wipe out the intruder in 9 rounds or less:

It is the gun in the Middle - all Black - fires 9 mm ammo. If you have one hand free, it will do the job for you.

http://learnabit.homeserver.com/lab/med0503.jpg

That Chinese AK-47 in the middle on the ground is a piece of junk. Biggest waste of money for me - I regret buying it. Weighs a ton and jams too often to shoot the intruder coming down through your hallway. And ammo for it is too expensive to use on the dirt bag in your home. Use a knife or baseball bat instead on him/her on the dirt bag and get rid of them. It's cheaper.


Some hand guns in our home that protect us from people like you :

http://learnabit.homeserver.com/lab/...d_2006_019.jpg


Have a nice day!
We are firm believers of home defense.

[swifty]