re: Best pistol for home protection?

Another point I think dawg brought up a while back is that us hunters take for granted that we can operate a pump shotgun in our sleep. It isn't like that for someone who didn't grow up shooting one, i.e. the wife. For somebody completely new it'd take as much or more range time than a semi auto rifle to learn how to operate a pump.

100% chance of short shuck for somebody under pressure who doesn't shoot them often.

For a handgun, I'll always recommend a full size .357 magnum revolver. Anybody can figure out how to make that thing spit 6 out under just about any circumstances.

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I have an m&p9mm in my nightstand, but I was under the impression that 45acp is a better round for home protection, as it's a subsonic bullet that a. Won't penetrate through as many walls in the event of an errant shot and b. Won't damage your eardrums

Unsupressed both will damage your eardrums prettt damn well so that's a moot point. You cannot tell the sound difference unsuprressed. Wall penetration between handguns rounds is much a moot point, they both go through a whole lot of walls so dong miss

I don't agree with birdshot at all.

And you mafukkas are slacking. THE JUDGEEEEEEE

Your eardrums will still get damaged but you won't know about it until after the fight is over.

Read up on auditory exclusion.

I read an FBI report 2 years ago that said a .357 has the highest percent of single round stopping power of all the handguns they tested.

So, in addition to the .40 in my nightstand, I have a .357 in a pop-open gun safe attached to my bed

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Your eardrums will still get damaged but you won't know about it until after the fight is over.

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True but still funny.

Yeah all that stopping power shite is irrelevant in my opinion, and I could be wrong. To me, any mf'er that keeps on coming after: 1/ Seeing a gun drawn and 2/ Hearing a shot, is a one in a million.

I've been warming up to the idea of AR-15 as "all around" defensive gun. Not only is it a great hobby weapon, you can standardize ammo, magazines, accessories along an entire range of weapons from SMG-sized pistols up to relatively long range precision weapons. And there are few compromises to be made, relative to pistols.

After all - a pistol is an inherent compromise - a "good enough" gun to allow you to fight your way to a real gun, i.e. a rifle or a shotgun (or machinegun ).