What's Your Home Defense Setup?

I think low class criminals have better things to do than track IP addresses. Sorry, TRY to track IP addresses.

SIG 1911 XO / SA 1911 custom / Colt Gold Cup / SIG P226 e2 / Browning High-power / Beretta PX4 Storm / G34 / G19 / G21 / G22 / G30 / S&W M-19 / Hk USP 40 / Rem 870 / Rock R. AR-15

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AR-15 with pressure activated light within arm's reach. M&P9 FS also within arm's reach, with a TLR-1s mounted and a spare magazine. Other deterrents are also in place, but these are the closest ones that are under my immediate control to defend myself.

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AR-15 with pressure activated light within arm's reach. M&P9 FS also within arm's reach, with a TLR-1s mounted and a spare magazine. Other deterrents are also in place, but these are the closest ones that are under my immediate control to defend myself.

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Lol. Been there. Which one do you grab when you actually have an issue arise or you think you do?


I ask cause I usually go for the handgun.

SIG 1911 XO / SA 1911 custom / Colt Gold Cup / SIG P226 e2 / Browning High-power / Beretta PX4 Storm / G34 / G19 / G21 / G22 / G30 / S&W M-19 / Hk USP 40 / Rem 870 / Rock R. AR-15

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I have my Beretta PX4 loaded and chambered with an extra magazine. That's 29 rounds of Speer Gold Dot 180-grain. .40 S&W.

Honestly, I have a great M4 and an awesome shotgun, but they're kept put away. I live in a small place and it just feels absurd to have those out for the evening. If the threat is not deterred by over two dozen rounds of .40 S&W - in which case I'm really in trouble - I should be able to walk the twenty steps to my closet by then and bust out the heavier stuff, but none of the heavier stuff is instantly accessible like the PX4 is.

Also, much more importantly, I lock my doors and windows and I keep an eye out for sketchy things.

It helps that living in Wyoming means you're about as likely to be attacked by wildlife as a person, and neither are very likely if you're not stupid about things.
 
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Lol. Been there. Which one do you grab when you actually have an issue arise or you think you do?


I ask cause I usually go for the handgun.


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Typically, the issue is something requiring me to go investigate (coyote in the yard, kid in the kitchen), meaning the handgun goes with me. If someone is for sure in the house or in the process of breaking in and I am setting up a defensive position, I am grabbing the AR and getting ready to let loose (after everyone is in the safe room).

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Gotcha...it happens so fast though. The times it's happened to me. Hell I'll take a pic now.

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The G21sf mag full of 230gr JHP's and 2 spare mags of FMJ's also 230gr.

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The G19 4th Gen with that 2.5lbs trigger that I carry is on standby. It does night duty here and there too. Miss my TLR-1.


By the way. I HATE a nightstand gun with no night sights. Both of these have them.

SIG 1911 XO / SA 1911 custom / Colt Gold Cup / SIG P226 e2 / Browning High-power / Beretta PX4 Storm / G34 / G19 / G21 / G22 / G30 / S&W M-19 / Hk USP 40 / Rem 870 / Rock R. AR-15

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It does happen fast, for the most part that is why my M&P is what is grabbed 99% of the time. Heck, the only time I have grabbed the AR was when there was a hog in the back yard.... But it is good to know that it is there

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A few nights ago, my door blew in violently at about 3 AM. As a student, I live in a small studio and the foot of my bed is only 20 feet from my door. I had forgotten to throw the lock and the latch is unreliable. I was truly ashamed of how slowly I reacted, I just sat there like a lump for a few.

I was pretty happy that when I did grab the Beretta and swept my porch with my TLR-1, I realized I had automatically swept off the safety without thinking. Training! :)
 
A few nights ago, my door blew in violently at about 3 AM. As a student, I live in a small studio and the foot of my bed is only 20 feet from my door. I had forgotten to throw the lock and the latch is unreliable. I was truly ashamed of how slowly I reacted, I just sat there like a lump for a few.

I was pretty happy that when I did grab the Beretta and swept my porch with my TLR-1, I realized I had automatically swept off the safety without thinking. Training!
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there is no defense against a Poltergeist :D
 
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there is no defense against a Poltergeist :D
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Lmfao I was going to say that!!

That's a whole other issue. I have a problem with that still..another one. But anyways...

Yeah...I usually grab the pistol too. Always. Only have the AR strapped across my shoulder when a hurricane is happening and when there's the notorious black out for a few days that follow a hurricane. I have night watch. Looters....

But normal night? I only leave one gun out. If I'm out searching I don't want some scallywag and his little buddies searching around. I have 3 door points of entry. If I'm lets say handling one sucker and the other comes through another entrance and sees my AR or another gun hanging out. Not good. Again not likely, but any chance I don't like taking. I don't. It's like why a civilian carries a gun. The most likely won't need it but that slim chance makes you do so.

I leave 1 gun out if I'm sleeping.

SIG 1911 XO / SA 1911 custom / Colt Gold Cup / SIG P226 e2 / Browning High-power / Walther PPQ / Beretta PX4 Storm / G34 / G19 / G21 / G22 / Kahr CW9 / S&W M-19 / Hk USP 40 / Rem 870 / Rock R. AR-15

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In my nightstand ... Springer 4-inch Loaded 1911, packed with Hornady Critical Defense rounds ... spare mag alongside, with a Surefire 9p and a SOG 3 1/2 inch fixed blade knife, serrated on one side, non-serrated on the other ... wife has a Kimber two-shot pepper spray gizmo in her nightstand ... also keep an old cell phone handy and charged ... even if it's no longer your live phone, you can call 911 on it ...

just my wife and I, so no need to try and clear the house ... we'd just hunker down in the bedroom and wait for the cavalry ... if somebody does break into the bedroom, hoping a few of those Hornadys will spoil his day ...

and my killer beagle Shiner to alert the neighborhood to our problems ... man, that dog is loud at 2 a.m. ...
 
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This seems to come up all too often. I live in a condo but I stay at the family property up in Wisconsin about every few weeks too so I need weapons good at short but also medium range.

I have a CZ75 in one of those "conceal clocks" next to my computer (living room) ; an S&W 1911PD in the drawer closest to the toilet in my bathroom and I typically have a P229 on my night stand.

If I was worried "its going to be heavy" I have a rifle ready to rock and roll in a gun safe in my bedroom as well. I have a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 4 loaded spare magazines ready for each gun at all times. It boggles my mind, my brother in law only keeps the one magazine loaded for his SIG, his only other gun is an old Winchester 30-30.

The other thing is all of my ammunition is right there in my bedroom, god forbid some far fetched prolonged shootout happened she would be in there reloading empty magazines for me. Sadly right not that is only about 750 rounds of 223, 500 of 9mm and 300 of 45 ACP. Need to double just about all of that too.

Hope to add a few more things to that list in the next 6 months.


Something else to note; I have to keep my P229 in one of those handgun racks for fear one of my evil cats would knock it off the nightstand. I DONT want to pull a Boondock Saints on my poor cats

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One Springfield XD .40 subcompact with aa Crimson Trace Laser loaded with 9+1 Extreme Shock® in a dresser drawer 5 inches from my head. Included with the XD are two backup 12 rnd mags in a dual mag holder loaded with Hornady Critical Defense Rounds and a Maglite. On the opposing side is the miss's Ruger LC9 (both out of eyesight). The S&W.380 Bodyguard is on my person anytime I'm not showering, at home or otherwise. All of the other firearms are in the 56 gun safe a perp would have a fun time trying to escort off the property.

Admitidly the first line of defense is the 6yr old retired German Sheppard Lap Dog and the nice neighborhood I live in with a heavy police/government worker percentage (can see three differend pd cruisers from the driveway.)

Admitidly I used to have firearms "strategically located" throughout the house. To each their own but I wisened up and really didn't want to end up being shot with one of my own guns (most likely the PGO Mossberg 500 I had propped by the door. Everything in the safe could be easily accessed in a matter of 30 seconds should the zombie appocalypse arise (I usually keep key caliber rounds and several G22 and AK-47 mags loaded, and a 20 roundround bandolier of 12 guage Low Recoil LE buckshot within an arms reach of the safe, concealed by blankets so not advertised to a perp.)
 
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Locks on the doors:)

Plus Beretta 92 in the nightstand, Bersa 45 in a box on top of the nightstand, 380 (my summer EDC) in an antique smoking stand outside the bedroom, and a GP100 in my loading room which doubles as the optimal retreat point.

It's only a 2 Bdrm, but there's a gun within 10 feet of me wherever I happen to be and bladed weapons darn near everywhere - which reminds me, there's also a 7" tanto in the nightstand;)
 
A Glock 22 .40 under my bed, a Walther PPS in 9mm that is always within easy reach and a 12 ga. loaded with 00 buck in the basement rounds out my home defense set up.

While i have three guns ready, I can't imagine a situation that I would need any more than a single gun to make my stand. The multiple guns are just to cover various ares in the home. No children in the home so I take advantage of it.
 
Remington 1100 20ga. 2 3/4 remington #3 buck. loaded unchambered

EDC glock 36 in night stand. Federal 230gn fmj

loaded unchambered hi power on top of entertainment system. Winchester silvertips.
 
Next to the bed, I'll put whatever the last thing I was carrying or using that day. Usually that's a Glock 27. Most frequently after that is a Winchester '94.

If it isn't with me, it's in the safe.
 
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