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Wolfman wrote on 10/26/10 at 02:36:19:


I remember when my son was a little boy and I had to tell him the truth about the Easter Bunny. He had about the same reaction.

My home defense weapon is a wife who at age 62 still has 20/15 vision and who can shoot the eyes out of a sparrow at 20 yards with her Webley .380.

Only problem is - I sure have to behave.

If you use a pistol for a home defense weapon, several cops gave me some hints back when I was a prosecutor, right out of law school.

With a revolver, have the chamber under the hammer empty, along with the one next to it so you can make a mistake without killing an innocent.

Then have rounds in the next two chambers and no more.

Reason - if you don't hit teh bad guy in those three pulls of the trigger (one for the empty chamber and the next two loaded chambers), you probably won't hit him at alll, because by then he is on you.

If the gun is then empty, he can't overpower you and shoot you with it.

Makes sense to me.

i hear stories about places where folks dont lock their doors - Canada for one comes to mind - I also hear they dont dwell on the negative things that happen - here in the US all the news is about bad stuff for the most part - kinda makes folks feel like they HAVE TO lock up everything.......i'd rather feel safer and feel like i have the option of not locking - but where I live there are home invasions in our area and the numbers keep going up - it would be stupid not to lock and or be prepared...just hope there is never a need to defend.

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mick wrote on 10/26/10 at 22:41:34:


Attaway to go, Mick, your comment is the first sensible thing I read in many a post !

No offense to you other gentlemen, but with my "Yooropean" perspective... you guys are waaay too aggressive.

Please do NOT think you are the only ones with house burglars etc., we have East Europeans who come to Italy, France, Germany on purpose because often an Italian/German jail is actually more comfortable than the house they live in, back in Moldova/ Ukraine/ Romania... but that doesn't mean we can just draw & shoot, quite the opposite.

The comment about using a .410 for domestic protection is a popular and wise piece of advice I found in Guns&Ammo way back in 1982-84 and it exlpained the columns of pellets fired from a .410 was just as long, but much narrower than a 12/ga shot of the same caliber pellets - hence, better penetration across plasterboard but still not as lethal as larger bores.

As for the story of the "teenage Annie Oakley", I still object that daddy's shotgun would most probably be compatible to the girl's sports gun, any more than the car sitting in your driveway is compatible to Junior's kart used on Saturday Track days.

Last comment: I once saw a film where an old, wisened burglar told his young "trainee" partner "never ever carry a weapon"
"Why not?"
"They catch you in the house, it's breaking and entering - a few years; they catch you with a knife ior a gnu, it's attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon, if you're lucky you get life."
"If you're not lucky?"
"You get shot"

I think it was either Sean Connery or Dustin Hoffman playing the old burglar.

Ruger Mini 14.  Nato rounds or 223. Short barrel, semi auto.

Cujo, Zombies from Night of the Living Dead, Osama bin Laden or the ghost of Saddam will all run from the Mini.