Your "Go to home defense SHTF firearm!

[BuffCyclist]

True, I mean I always have my CRKT M16-13Z knife on me, a lighter, and a pen. Though I have considered getting a quality shotgun, as they are relatively cheap and very reliable for defensive purposes.

[Hellboy]

i'd toss the spouse at them. she'd put up enough of a fight, i'd be able to grab what ever is closer

I was thinking the same thing!! After she gets through with them they'd be begging for a gun to finish themselves off.

[Irving]

I always wear my gun while I'm awake, no matter what I'm doing. When I hear a noise from bed I get up and take my pistol to check. 99% of the time, it was just some noise and I don't actually expect to find a person anywhere. If I heard the door, breaking glass, interior voices, or anything else that makes me suspect that someone is actually on premises, then I'll pull the loaded (not chambered) shotgun out of the closet. That may change a little when I actually own my house though. Right now in the apartment people walk around right outside my windows all the time. In a house, they'll have no reason to be in my yard which will change the situation a bit.

[gnihcraes]

wouldn't say I'm in a bad hood, but it's not great either. Usually through the summer and sometimes during the winter get a bad guy pounding on the door for some stupid reason, drunk, doped or whatever.

Ruger LCR is usually by the back door if not on me, Sig 226, Ruger SP101 in quick safe in closet... rest are locked up. (kiddos and buglars around)

Bo Staff and Escrima Sticks as backups... ha.

[GunTroll]

Bo Staff and Escrima Sticks as backups... ha.

Oh yeah!

[car-15]

j-frame .357 mag. shared between the truck, and in my iwb holster.
1911 on the nightstand
1911 on the couch next to me
and winchester x2, with 9 rounds of buckshot leaning against my headboard.

[275RLTW]

Rem 870P with #6 birdshot. Birdshot does not penetrate 2 layers of drywall, as buckshot does, and is more than sufficient within the house. I've seen people shot with buckshot and leave the hospital that night after the doc removed the 9 pellets. I've also seen the mush that 142 pellets of birdshot will turn someone into. No aiming involved (although I love my 1911's) especially if I am woken up in the middle of the night and still sleepy (try waking up out of nowhere & aiming your pistol, without the added adrennaline). If things get worse from there, pistols and rifles are staged accordingly.

[Irving]

Something that has a hard time penetrating drywall sure as heck isn't turning a person into "mush." Also, no aiming involved? Have you ever even shot your shotgun?

[Colorado Luckydog]

I'm a trained ninja warrior amd I don't really need a firearm. I can catch bullets with my teeth and I have the ability to dodge head shots.

In case the ninja plan fails....I have a 9mm on my hip until I go to bed and then it goes on my nightstand. I also have 2 other handguns where I can get to them without opening the safe. I have 1 in the basement and 1 upstairs.

If the shit really hit the fan, I'l be grabbing my mini and shotguns out of the safe. I should add, all guns are loaded and ready to rock and roll. My wife and my daughter also know where the guns are and how to use them. However, they are both ninja warriors also.

[theGinsue]

It's a fine line between paranoid and prepaired. In my experience the one being made fun of as paranoid are the exact same person everyone runs to right before the shooting starts.

THIS has always been my motto to live (and stay alive) by!

Home defenses:

• Open approaches on all sides of the house with range markers
• 6 Jack Russel Terriers that can hear a flea fart from 1/2 mile away
• Wife works nights - "I pity the fool" that wakes her during the day
• Glock
• Trip-wires attached to red star-clusters
• Moat
• Claymores
• 16" Mini-14 LE Carbine
• Alligators
• Air Support

OK...I really don't have alligators. But they'd be cool.

Yeah, I was buying it until the alligators. That one is a bit far fetched.


So, if I hadn't lost all of my guns in the tragic boating accident last summer, I would have my wife's Ruger P345 .45 in the living room, and my Beretta 92FS and Rem 870 Tactical in the bedroom all ready to go.

I had a guy come to my door today who would only mumble when I asked thrrough the door who it was and what he wanted. I noticed that someone else was just around the corner - in front of my garage door too. I cracked the door open (just enough to look out but not reveal anything I have in the home) with my foot behind it to ensure it couldn't be (easily) be shoved open. he guy claimed to be working for a painting/siding company here in town [Really? Painting or sideing replacement - this time of year?]. I gave him a fierce "Not interested - go away". You should have seen the look on his face. He promptly left with his partner.

<aybe the whole thing was innocent. Maybe they were scouting for a home to break into later. Maybe they were looking to break into my home then. Who knows, but if they had ill intent, I think they realize that this is NOT the home to break into.