Stocking Gun Safe?

I ended up getting 60 rounds of these. I also got another 100 rounds of regular .223 rounds.

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The free gun range that I go to is getting ready to reopen after going through a total redo.

Your best bet with ARs for home defense is to have a good plan that minimizes, if not outright removes over penetration risk. My current house plan is the corner stairs are the killzone, and I'll be shooting down into my foundation and away from any other house. If that somehow fails, I have pistols with hollow points.

While not really a hollow point, the IMI 77 grain razor core 5.56 is supposed to be wonderfully accurate. But I’ve yet to try this particular round. But as others have said, if you are defending around your home, shotgun is the way to go. Don’t wanna be spraying and praying 5.56 rounds that will go through your wall, and possibly through the neighbor’s wall or window.

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Fmj’s will get it done with clean pass through

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At close range (inside the house) it will most likely fragment into a bunch of pieces. This is especially true with a 55 grain fmj. What pieces do exit the body will have very little mass, and therefore not much momentum left to punch through a wall and still be lethal on the other side.

Interesting Test

I highly recommend everyone to go watch the multitude of videos that test penetration capabilities of 9, 00 buckshot, 556, 7.62x39.

Every round is shockingly (or not) capable of penetrating 5+ rounds of sheetrock.

The thought that a 556 round over penetrates more than a pistol round really does not stack up. A 9mm will exit all the walls of your house just as easily as the 556. I’m not going to go so far as to say that 9mm will penetrate more walls but there have been tests that show this does occur.

With all that said give me 30 rounds of federal fusion msr any day over a 9mm or a 00 buck.