Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Maybe a shotgun is better for home defense...

My guess is, the vast majority of burglars just want in and out with a minimum of drama. They don't enter occupied houses. It's a business to them. The less risk the better.

Texas doesn't have the castle law?

In Kentucky (and other states with a castle law) it's a very bad idea to enter someone's house uninvited.

They're paid for.

Texas too, in Texas if someone comes into your house uninvited you can shoot them. Its not really the legal system you'd need to worry about, tho IIRC civil suits are always a possibility. Gang members, family and friends would be further up the list, plus the notoriety of being the guy in your neighborhood who shot someone, and the room in your house where they died.

Sounds like an urban problem.

Clearly you didn't grow up watching Kung Fu like I did, ya prob'ly don't have dragon designs burned into the inside of your forearms either. If you did you would know a man is owned by his possessions

You did bring up the topic of 9mm carbines. If any of the AR clones are ideal for home defense, I dunno why something similar in 9mm wouldn't be even better.

Certainly there's be less flash and blast. All you rank amateurs here may not care about your ears but I'm a Professional..............................


.............................................bird watcher.

I dunno which would go through the most walls with a miss, I'm sorta remembering that the 5.56 tumbles impressively if driven fast enough whereas a 147gr 9mm can keep going sorta forever if it doesn't expand.

Anyhoo.... I figure the only reason why 9mm carbines haven't been front and center on this thread is there just aren't all that many out there, not like AR platforms anyhow.

I tried the Kel-Tec Sub 2000, the one that takes Glock magazines. The problem with that was the nifty folding design also dictates low-profile sights that I found impossible to pick up in a hurry.

If I buy another gun it might be a Ruger PC9 carbine

5 shot of snubnose .38 is just something to buy you a little time to get to your real gun.

To hold them in place while you go open the gunsafe?

Somebody told me that there are two kinds of burglars.
One kind is very careful to break in when they know for sure that nobody is home. They just want to stea
l from you.
The other kind hopes you are home or maybe doesn't care either way. That is the kind that you need to be ready for.
whelennut

I expect most folks are like me in that there's a whole quantum leap between the chance that I'm gonna get burglarized when not home than I am to get home invaded. Ergo I put a real priority in not leaving unsecured firearms in the house when I'm out..

OTOH the high school burglar who was killed down the street 25+ years ago just assumed the homeowner was not home when he entered the home, and got killed for his trouble.

Birdy,

Load that 5.56 with 60gr Vmax and you have way fewer over penetration problems than with a 9mm and 147gr bullets.

Plus, an MPX will up your coolness factor by 100. Think John Wick cool!

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You still have that 311 double?

I'll still buy it, if ya do!

I've been cutting my wine 50/50 with grape juice.

Maybe I should dump the wine and cut the grape juice with grain alcohol.

Of course I do, a 24" Model B, an artifact of classic Americana; shoulders like a 2x4, kicks like a mule, stock of the finest birch set off by a distinctive coffee-with cream shade finish



You got an extra MPX laying around?

I'm short on MPX's at the moment.

But, I'll give ya $300 to go towards one...