New Member's Future Selections for Defense

[BullfrogKen]

I don't think you're a mall ninja.


I just think you're a very young guy who believes the crap published in gun magazines.

 

[Potatohead]

+1 to everything mljdeckard said.

First, you do not need three weapons in your vehicle, or on your person to defend yourself.
In the VERY REMOTE possibility you might need to defend yourself in the first place.

Second, a SBR would raise the hackles on the back of every cops neck in a 10-15 mile radius if you got stopped in a simple license check traffic stop.
Let alone if you used it in a SD shooting.


In reality, if a threat is out of green teeth bad breath range of a few yards?
It is not in your best interest to fire on it.

You said yourself you are neither a cop nor a solder.

Methinks you might be a video game player though??

Just a guess?

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[Potatohead]

I'll take a lighter approach than most, because at some point we were all new and hadn't made the realizations yet.

Good man bovice, you're right.

 

[Potatohead]

Vaupet, both the 9mm and 5.56 are rated at about 155 dB, so they are both very loud.

Secondly, a 5.56 with defensive ammo will penetrate less (both tissue and building structure) than your 9mm with defensive ammo. So the overpenetration is actually less of an issue with a rifle vs a handgun.

I can't believe how often that false information is spread... It seems like it is never ending...

All Arounds right

 

[JohnBiltz]

I think everyone is being too hard on you. Look, there is not a single thing you are doing that I do. Nothing wrong with that, that is why they make more than one kind of gun. I carry a Glock 26, a blur and a flashlight full time. I use the flashlight all the time, I mean daily a couple of times. I am up all night. I sometimes use the knife as a tool. I never use the Glock except at the range, don't want to either. I've carried no spare magazine, two spare magazines and a single spare magazine at various times. Never felt more or less safe with any of the options. My personal opinion is if you have to reload you will be dead, overcome by events as we used to say. Any threat that can't be handled by 13 rounds is probably not survivable in a gunfight so if I'm in one of those situations I'm going to try to avoid a gunfight. I've settled on one spare magazine for reasons that best could be described as because.

A carbine for the car, there are a lot of guys with truck guns. Usually its some kind of beater and they may have a long commute. Personally, I'm retired, I retired in my late 40s. I probably drive about 30 miles a week and 18 of that is going to the range and back. Its not an issue for me. The only real justification for a long gun in the car is some kind civil disturbance along the lines of the LA riots and its to get you home. I don't want a $2,000 gun stolen from me, it would bother me ten times as much as a $200 shotgun would. Which is what most people are telling you.

If I'm driving a hundred miles somewhere I throw an AR in the trunk with seven loaded magazines. That is my in case something really hit the fan and I'm a long way from home setup. If I need it, its really bad. But around town a few miles from home, I just can't imagine a scenario where it would be needed.

 

[Yo Mama]

I'm not a mall ninja or anyone resembling Gecko45. I'm just a guy who wanted to feel safer. I never expected I would have to use a rifle in a defense situation, but I thought that as long as I was gonna start carrying I might as well have one. To those who are calling me "unbalanced," I resent that and would like to reiterate that I am a healthy, mentally sound person who was trying to make an informed decision.

I'm glad to see this. Many people who first get into guns don't get the real information, they just get the tv/movie versions of firearms.

I can't add anything of value that hasn't been stated by others in the thread. Listen to what they are saying, it's good info.

 

[gym]

That's what all crazy people say, but in all seriousness you have gone over the top of the foxhole on all of this. You need a reliable lightweight pistol, for 500 -1000.00 and it may never leave the holster.
after a year or so you will have a better understanding of what you want.
You cannot drive around with an SBR and half dozen knives and magazines without raising your profile, that is not good.
People will think of you as eccentric, pepper, or anarchist, take things slow.

 

[allaroundhunter]

I can drive around with a suppressed, full auto SBR, 20 magazines, and 2 boxes of MREs and no one will have a clue....

Perhaps he is over the top... But it doesn't mean that he will be telling everyone that he meets on the street what he is carrying at that given time.

 

[Safetyfirst]

For anyone still thinking my decisions haven't changed, I've updated my new selections in a new thread. All of your advice has been incorporated

 

[Potatohead]

Whoa now. Don't incorporate everything...

 

[Sam1911]

Ok, so there's a new thread about the OP's plans. Might as well close this one.

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=725407