If you could only have one firearm

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Allen_Raiford

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If you were, for some reason, limited to owning just ONE, SINGLE, SOLITARY firearm to provide for your defense, what would it be, exactly?
 
Easy. S&W Model 66 with 4" barrel.

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"...and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one."
Luke 22:36
"An armed society is a polite society."
Robert Heinlein
 
Glock 27 with fitted barrel and adj. sites.

Because its....
(In no particular order....)
High capacity
Concealable
Shoots like a big gun
Powerful Round
Rust Proof
Accurate
User maintainable/fixable.
 
Smith & Wesson 629, 6". I'd actualy prefer the model 657 but due to ammo availablity if limited to one gun it would have to be the .44.

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Gunslinger

We live in a time in which attitudes and deeds once respected as courageous and honorable are now scorned as being antiquated and subversive.
 
I would pick a 9mm, since that ammo would readily be found in the ruins of looted gunshops.

My only 9mm is my beloved USP9! (I'm adding a P228 Real Soon Now.)

Roon

[This message has been edited by Joseph (edited March 09, 2000).]
 
You beat me to it, Chief. Mine's a LEO trade-in I bought almost 10 years ago. It's my wife's favorite as well.

BTW, I noticed from your profile you are stationed at NAS JAX. I was a weekend warrior there in VA 203 during the '70s when I lived down in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area.
 
Bulgarian SLR-95. I don't own one, but if it was down to just one to do it all, and do it dependably, I would pick the AK. High cap mags are redily available, ammo is cheap and everywhere, they have earned a well deserved reputation for dependability, and the 7.62X39 is a useful hunting round (not the best, but useful), will give excellent penetration (through walls, body armor, ect...)and the weapon is relatively light, and easy to keep about your person.
 
I figure that if your question is to be taken at face value, there's good odds that it might be a case of one firearm, period.

Regardless, since over-penetration is of no consequence to my home-style, I'd probably keep my Garand. Eight events of social realism, plus a bayonet and a serious butt-stroke. If I need more than that, I'd say I'm in serious doo-doo.

:), Art
 
depends on the senario
:)

if i need to feed the family and defend them from boo-gey men at night raiding the homestead, then a pump 12 gauge gets the nod

if i needed a carry piece to defend from muggings a glock 9mm

if i needed a militia arm for defense of the country AR15

if i had to have one only one
i guess that 12 guage is getting a drover coat!

dZ
 
My Ruger mini-14. I can put lots of ammo in my pockets and I have large capacity mags for it. I can shoot bad guys near or far and hunt for survival as well.
 
.454 Super-Redhawk. It will take down any game animal short of an elephant, and the ammo is cheaper than a .50 BMG rifle.

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Sic semper tyrannis!
 
For personal defense it would have to be a .357 wheelgun. I'd hate to give up my M23 Glock or Colt '91, but .38/.357 ammo would probably be easiest to come by.
 
If I could only keep one, it would have to be my Ruger P95. I have plenty of high cap mags for it, and 9MM ammo is plentiful the world over. It is a tough as nails tool that fires anything I feed it. (sorry Walther!! :()
 
Based upon your question, I assume:
1. If I can't have any other firearm, and this is my only defense, then I may need to conceal it at times, so a sidearm will be necessary.
2. If I can't get another firearm, then perhaps repairs and parts could be a problem, so it needs to be very durable.
3. If I can't get another firearm, then ammunition must be inexpensive and readily available, and so the ammo needs to be common.

So, while I'd like to say an AR or a shotgun, seems like the answer is a stainless steel revolver, like a Smith & Wesson or a Ruger. Probably in .38 special / .357 magnum, although most folks would also consider a .44 special / .44 magnum.

I'll say a S&W 686, or a Ruger GP-100, with 4" barrels - they take .38 / .357.
 
Remington 870 18" smoothbore w/folding stock and ghost ring sights.

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Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.
 
Funny how different our responses are. I want one firearm to do EVERYTHING? I would only be able to have ONE?

Browning Buckmark .22 LR, standard plain Jane field grade with the non-target stocks, in a 6" barrel. Two 11-shot magazines and 2 10-shot mags. Bricks and bricks of .22 LR.

The accuracy of this pistol rivals most .22 rifles, yet it is compact enough to carry concealed. It is a magnificent training pistol (you're not going to just let the art die off with YOU, are you?), and makes a darned good target/competition gun, too. Call your shots carefully, and in emergency situations they CAN bring down big game. (I'm assuming that if I can only have ONE gun, this IS an emergency!!)

Accuracy and low-recoil makes it possible to call which eye-orbital at 25 yards.

So there's my curve-ball! :)
 
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