I've considered purchasing some variant of an AR-15 carbine, or building my own, but now I am begining to think it would only be useful to get a full sized 20" target model for competition...considering:
If you HAVE to fire it indoors without hearing protection, you're deaf, or at least suffering from permanent hearing loss. Or worse, constant ringing in the ears.
If you fire it indoors WITH hearing protection, good for you, but your peripheral hearing is muffled, so you can't hear anything in the house...and thats bad if you're scanning for bad guys.
Despite the articles on the .223 round not being as overpenetrating as previously thought, that sucker is going to rip right through sheet rock with no problem. I wouldn't want to endanger anyone in the house other than bad guys, and the neighbors are certainly at risk.
You can't shoot at anyone outside the house (even bad guys) without running afoul of the law under almost any circumstances.
So it looks like the marginal utility of the AR-15 for home is very low. Shotgun or pistol only seems to be it. Wish it were otherwise.
If you HAVE to fire it indoors without hearing protection, you're deaf, or at least suffering from permanent hearing loss. Or worse, constant ringing in the ears.
If you fire it indoors WITH hearing protection, good for you, but your peripheral hearing is muffled, so you can't hear anything in the house...and thats bad if you're scanning for bad guys.
Despite the articles on the .223 round not being as overpenetrating as previously thought, that sucker is going to rip right through sheet rock with no problem. I wouldn't want to endanger anyone in the house other than bad guys, and the neighbors are certainly at risk.
You can't shoot at anyone outside the house (even bad guys) without running afoul of the law under almost any circumstances.
So it looks like the marginal utility of the AR-15 for home is very low. Shotgun or pistol only seems to be it. Wish it were otherwise.