What’s your home defense gun choice?
Massad Ayoob would like to know. I have four various M&P9s in particular places. And quick access to an AR-15.
21 Responses to “What’s your home defense gun choice?”
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August 24th, 2016 at 5:48 pm
Whadaya need? I probably have it.
Mostly it’s the 10 mm pistol I have on me whenever I’m dressed. A gun on the person beats a dozen guns you have to go run and fetch.
Need to defend the peace against random dogs that bark after midnight keeping people awake? Deer in the garden? 17 cal piston powered air rifle – enough to hurt but not injure. Whatever’s appropriate.
August 24th, 2016 at 5:55 pm
I carry a J-frame everywhere. All the time, constantly. Depending on where I am in the house, it’s liable to be anything, but the J-frame is always with me.
August 24th, 2016 at 8:07 pm
Glock 19, Remington 870.
August 24th, 2016 at 8:14 pm
Same as PawPaw. regards, Alemaster
August 24th, 2016 at 8:32 pm
Same as Alemaster.
Blam-blam-blam-blam-blam-*click*!
August 24th, 2016 at 8:52 pm
Like pawpaw and alemaster, I have something small on me all time. If I’m wearing pants and not forcibly disarmed by law, there’s a Kahr cm9 on me. There’s also likely a spare mag. I never want to be in a situation where I have to “go get a gun.” I should already have it.
That being said, given enough warning I’d much rather have one of the ARs I have in various places.
August 24th, 2016 at 9:52 pm
Beretta 92FS Compact with homemade thin grip panels. Hornady Critical Duty 135 gr. This is the EDC and usually in the same room with me at home. I know, a lot of old guys use those.
August 24th, 2016 at 10:07 pm
SCAR 17S
August 24th, 2016 at 10:55 pm
380 auto. Rarely a messy exit wound and an easy dry wall repair job if I miss – which is hard to do at 10 feet. Additional bonus is that there is less chance of hearing damage than with a 45acp in close quarters.
August 24th, 2016 at 11:07 pm
Ed Brown Kobra Carry (.45 ACP) often on me but when not on the headboard in the bedroom. A Smith and Wesson model 10 (.38 Special +P) in a drawer in my bedroom, a Smith and Wesson model 25 (.45 Colt) on the top shelf in my hall closet, and a Maverick HS-12 shotgun (12 Gauge) also in the hall closet. I wouldn’t need to do any reloading, that’s for sure. 🙂
August 24th, 2016 at 11:21 pm
Well, after near 40 years as a (now former) FFL let’s just say if they ever bunk my junk it’ll make the news.
But I ain’t a commando or anything so as far as what’s at the ready, the old ’54 (like me!) Colt Cobra goes where I go. NAA is always in the pocket. And there’s a shortie shottie and a cheap AR ready to go and just a four-digit safe code from being in my hands. At the shop (now just coins, collectible watches and estate jewelry, gun biz just not worth the hassle to me anymore), there’re duplicates of the shotgun and sport rifle in the safe as well as two 9’s (yeah they’re glocks) in strategic locations.
Never in all those years had occasion to pull any of them in an emergency (knock wood) and I pray to God that trend continues ’til I die, but they’re there and ready because there’s a first time for everything.
Depending on what happens in November I will radically cull most of the collection along with a lot of other toys; I’m old and don’t do recreational shooting anymore, I’ve got a shit-ton of assets tied up there, and even with near bank-level security there’s always risk. And if you believe that fine tools should be used, it’s not fair to the guns or their future owners to hang on to them even though it’ll be hard to let them and that part of my life go.
But that old Cobra ain’t going anywhere but with me.
August 25th, 2016 at 9:56 am
Mossy 500 12-ga 8-shooter hidden, first 3 00B, last 5 are DDupleks steel-slug motor-killers…, Ruger LCS9pro on me. First mag, 124-gr Hornady American Gunner XTP, second mag, Buffalo Bore Penetrator 124-gr FMJ-FN, third mag Winchester 124 FMJ NATO.
August 25th, 2016 at 10:55 am
Whichever firearm I can reach first. I have choices in almost every room.
August 25th, 2016 at 12:38 pm
Anything in a Fudd gun. .357 revolver, 12 ga. pump, or. 30-30, in order of preference.
August 25th, 2016 at 1:08 pm
I find myself in the MajMike camp: Whichever firearm I can reach first. I have choices in almost every room.
Mostly Glocks and 12 gauges for me.
August 25th, 2016 at 2:49 pm
AR15 with a red dot and a suppressor, and a Glock 17.
August 25th, 2016 at 4:42 pm
In her desk drawer a .38spl, in mine a 686, her side of the bed a G19, mine a CZ07.
Within reach throughout the hooch are pistols.
Truck has an AR, mancave an 870 18.5″ w/10 rd mag.
August 25th, 2016 at 5:04 pm
Colt 1911, the way God and St. John of Ogden meant us to use.
August 25th, 2016 at 6:50 pm
LW 38 Super Commander for away from home. Plus a 1911 in the tv room, and a 1911 in the living room, and a 1911 in the kitchen, and a 1911 in the bedroom, plus an AR-15 leaning behind the bedroom door.
August 25th, 2016 at 10:13 pm
I keep a Mossberg 500 20GA under the bed a S&W m10 38spl in the nightstand a AR15 hanging under the shelf in My office and a PT92 9MM. in My desk.
August 29th, 2016 at 7:24 pm
I got asked the same question under oath by the office of the attorney general as part of a federal lawsuit against the state. They asked what my wife and I used for home defense and where we keep the arms.
I’ll respond to Masaad the same way I responded to them, “You got a pen and some paper?”