Rifles for home defense?

If you can't hit your target, you might as well be holding a rubber chicken.
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Don't knock the rubber chicken. Fill it with quarters, and you have a primo close quarters weapon. Of coarse, a Garand or AK is better...
 
Whichever one you handle the fastest and most accurately. What can you use in your sleep? That's about what you'd be looking at. To me, a rifle or carbine of some description wins every time.
 
I never thought of that, I do have a 16" AR and a M1Carbine.I would prefer the M1Carbine coz it's has paratrooper stock , a way shorter than my 16" AR or I'll just stick w/ my pistols.
 
How come NO one on the page mentions that the best gun is one that you have trained with in the tactics and methods to defend the house?

Discussing which gun and load is rather silly. A quality handgun, rifle or shotgun will do the job against the majority of situations IF you know what you are doing.

That's rarely mentioned as folks rather talk the technobabble about guns. I remember an Insights class where the instructor shut down such a discussion in favor of mindset and tactics.

The answer is training is more important than the range of weaponery discussed here.

A trained person with any of the following: 9mm, 12 gauge or AR is better off than the untrained with the technoblaster.
 
Only a 45 ACP button.

IMHO, haha!, if one can afford many expensive firearms, one can afford a couple of weekends of tac and FOF training - much better value to have a G19 and training, then none and the technoblaster.
 
What about an untrained technoblaster with a Staples "Easy Button".
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Reminds me of a pretty good idea I had for an inexpensive home defense device. It's a Staples "Easy Button"-style gizmo that replays the sound of someone loading a Remington 870 pump-action 12-gauge. Roll over in bed, hit the button, "CHA-chunk", intruder runs like heck. :D
 
Is anyone considering the situation where one of your family members is held hostage in some manner by the assailants? A shotgun in that case would seem far from ideal.

What would you want in such a circumstance? A handgun with a laser sight perhaps? [even if the laser was just there to show the perp that you aren't afraid to shoot around a family member, even if you are]
 
People do train for the hostage shot with a shotgun if they know their pattern. One wild card is that close up the wad can whack the hostage and probably do some damage.

It's all the racking as a acoustic weapon of awesome power.
 
Is anyone considering the situation where one of your family members is held hostage in some manner by the assailants? A shotgun in that case would seem far from ideal.

What would you want in such a circumstance?
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Sonny Crocket......

I know my limits, without my scoped rifle I would not think of trying a shot as that. Not even with the rifle. Who would try something like that?

I spend my time thinking of nice things, not hostage situations involving my family.

Which family member did you say?
 
How about a Marlin 1894 in 44mag/spl. 10+1 capacity and a cocking action second only to a pump as far as fear factor goes. Or a Taurus 45colt pump? I think they hold 14 rounds.
 
Back when I lived in an apartment I had a 357 Mag levergun that I loaded with 38 Spcl. Now that I live in a brick house I've stepped up to my Marlin guide gun in 45-70. If someone breaks in my wife knows to get her phone, get in the bathroom and call the police. If anyone ties to comes into our bedroom unannounced they are going to get a big chunk of lead to the chest. But that's just what works for me, with no kids, no roommates, and nothing beyond the wall in the line of fire for a good long distance.
 
Sounds like a repost

I dont think rifles are a good choice at all due to over-penitration unless it is chambered for a pistol caliber. i keep a loaded beretta CX4 with a 20rd mag and an eotech sight under the bed complement to my 45 XD.
 
teeroux said:
I dont think rifles are a good choice at all due to over-penitration unless it is chambered for a pistol caliber. i keep a loaded beretta CX4 with a 20rd mag and an eotech sight under the bed complement to my 45 XD.
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Your XD and CX4 are both more of an overpenetration risk than my AR-15 :D. Of course I'm being a hypocrite - my Steyr M9A1 9mm is my #1 go-to gun, but it's definitely worth mentioning that .223 is less of an overpenetration risk than 9mm, .40S&W, .45ACP, buckshot, 7.62xanything, etc.
 
I have a shotgun, that's my #1 choice.

I also have a 38 Special Lever Gun and a 9mm autoloading carbine. Something about a good shotgun. :D

Biker
 
Your XD and CX4 are both more of an overpenetration risk than my AR-15 .
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It is worth pointing out that is strictly determined by bullet design. I can get your AR tp penetrate a lot more than others or a lot less, based on what bullets are being used.
 
markj wrote: "I know my limits, without my scoped rifle I would not think of trying a shot as that. Not even with the rifle. Who would try something like that?"

I would.

A long time ago, running through differend scenarios, I determined that there are no conditions that I can think of that would allow anyone, . . . ANYONE, . . . to leave my presence with one of my family members as a hostage.

I have no doubt about my ability to take a perp down with a head shot, if I can see 1/3 of his/her head.

Faced with the situation, . . . I'll take any shot I get, . . . shoulder, hip, foot, head, (ear if it is big enough), . . . they are not leaving with my loved one, . . . unless they have somehow outfoxed the old man, . . . or shot him dead.

May God bless,
Dwight
 
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