For those of you who don't use handguns for protection what are you going to do in close combat (halls, stairways, etc.) swinging some shotgun around except cause a lot of property damage? Which is what you were trying to avoid in the first place.
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For those of you who don't use handguns for protection what are you going to do in close combat (halls, stairways, etc.) swinging some shotgun around except cause a lot of property damage? Which is what you were trying to avoid in the first place.
Potato launcher
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Nope! It's Imbel. Straight outta Brazil yo! I'm probably going to add the FSE trigger, hammer and safety just to up the US parts count to make everyone even more happy. Also has a vortex flash hider... Really love this gun!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cono Este
Collapse the stock and keep it tucked into my shoulder? Not swingin the long arms like a bat here... I prefer my AR over the shotgun, but then again I think the rifle is 10x better than almost any other type of gun.Quote:
Originally Posted by concretejungle
Most of the people in this thread likely own guns for sport, and then keep them loaded at home because, well, fuck, smoke em if you got em.
That said my "protection drawer" as Theodore labeled it contains underwear, durex ultra thins, and a Beretta 92FS Vertec 9MM with hydra-shok cocked and locked also with attached light\laser combo...hoping that a red dot is good enough deterrence against an unarmed intruder ;)
maglite
belgian malinois
five-seven
(thank you for expiring brady bill!)
A lab/husky mix and a beagle mix with wicked barks (but nonexistent bites) and a Louisville Slugger.
If someone actually breaks into the house (through locked doors and windows) and without getting scared off by the dogs they can take what they want from the living room and kitchen. The instant they step into the bedroom, however, they will lose their head.
Beat them with the shotgun, simple enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by concretejungle
I'm guessing you are being sarcastic here? Oh well. I asked my neighbors if they were moving after that shooting here...they didn't even know about the shooting(upstairs neighbor)but said they were thinking about moving because someone tried to break in via their porch one night. I think it is just something that comes along with living in apartments. When I lived in my house, initially I kept a gun (after moving from a neighborhood where I had a home invasion). Eventually though, I just kept the guns unloaded in their cases in the closet. There was never any crime in my neighborhood. Hell, I didn't even lock my cars. I just wasn't worried.Quote:
Originally Posted by hutash
Now seeing the cops over at my apartments for who knows what, at least 3X a week, I keep a gun by the bed. I asked the cops why they are normally over here and it is normally a domestic dispute. That said, I foudn out that the shooting WAS a domestic dispute. I guess some kids had a party where people got in a fight. They left and came back with guns. The murray police say the crime rate here, is the same as at other apartments in the slc valley. So yeah, I'm paranoid. I admit it. Whoopdeedoo.
That said, I keep a S&W Military/Police compact .40 I don't keep a bullet or magazine in at night(magazine is next to it). Racking a bullet is an intimidating sound to an intruder.
In the end I guess I don't NEED a gun here. Really, when I think about it, the ONE time in my life where I felt like I might have actually NEEDED a gun, I got out of alive(that was the home invasion where the guy had me pinned in the front room and said he was going to kill my wife in the next room..I couldn't have done anything but she could have). I just did exactly what he told me and we both lived. That said if he had been meth'd out or on some other intense drug, instead of drunk, who knows how things would have ended up. Nothing like watching your wife shake all night and bawling her head out because she thought the both of you were dead to change your opinion on guns(up until that point I had never even considered one).
An Orange Male 8 lbs Norwegian Forest cat with a full set of claws, and a bladder full of cat urine.
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In all reality, Shmoe didn't really need the gun.
Nothing was being targeted at our place.
That said, I have considered getting a handgun and CCL since that little incident...
I actually worry that my lab would increase my losses in the event of a burglery. After she was done barking, she would lead them to the fridge. Then I would be out my food too!
No, the obvious place would be in the bathroom so you can fondle it while you poop.Quote:
Originally Posted by StoneCold
Awwww! That's a sweet kitty-cat. :)
And I keep an aluminum baseball bat and a hudge can of bear spray within reach under the bed.
Sprite
bear spray
3 D-cell Maglite
and somewhere around here is my ice axe. Not a bad idea.
I have a giant maglite flashlight in the nightstand, but if someone was really in the house I think I'd play one of my wife's Josh Groban CDs at top volume. That'd make anyone run away, right?
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Originally Posted by Andy_B
I demand a recount...or is it a tactical version.
I live on four acres next to 75 outside Evergreen, I keep a loaded 12 in the event I wake up to mr big gato on the deck some night.
There can be only one
MAGNUM's
6 D-cell magligh+, knives, skipoles.Quote:
Originally Posted by El Chupacabra
9mm w/ Federal HP frangibles. Loaded, chambered.
I'd like to get a 1911 .45 w/ a built-in rail for a surefire light, and a Mossberg M590 w/ 8-rd tube, and a surefire w/remote on it too.
I gots other stuff but just for fun.
Sorry, just don't trust people w/ my life.
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Originally Posted by shmoesmith
i read somewhere that, when polled, convicted criminals voted that the sound of a shell being chambered is the #1 scariest thing for a robber / intruder to hear.
i should make a handheld device that plays the sound for a shotgun shell being chambered super loud. i'd hit it and yell, "OK Motherfucker, keep coming, cause I've got 1 loaded and 5 behind it"....or something like that.
Tournament grade paintball gun.
Velocity spring screwed all the way in.
Set to fully automatic @ 13 balls per second
18" Rigid Aluminium Pipe wrench. Been swinging those most of my life. I pity da foo. Whooopa like Mario Ninja
Yeah that'd fuck a dude up, or at least make them want to go away pronto.Quote:
Originally Posted by marmot mb
How do you keep the air juiced up, though? Doesn't CO2 bleed down? Or is it nitro?
I rent. I'll punch tons of holes through the walls so long as nobody gets away with my computer or my skis.Quote:
Originally Posted by concretejungle
I slept on the streets for years, I don't feel the need for more protection than a deadbolt. That said, the odds of someone choosing my cheap studio to break into are about the same as Snowbowl getting more snow than Alta.
A deadbolt
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Originally Posted by Bernardo
and after having my dad's 12g ithaca shoved in my face as a twelve year old who was sneaking back in, and after having a friend of mine shoot himself in the hand (one of the best trained military riflemen on the planet) when he thought someone was breaking in, I've chosen to refrain from putting ammo and guns in the same room