Pick 1 For Home Defense Gun

[sigbear]

If you could pick only 1 of the 2, which would you pick for your "Home Defense Only Handgun"?, Both 4-4.5" barrel, u-pick your round.

9mm 16+1 rounds HP

.45 ACP, 8+1 rounds HP

Other

Sigbear

 

[StorkPatrol]

For a "home defense only" gun you are not limited in size like you would be for a carry gun. There is no reason you cant have a 13 round .45 or a 15 round 10mm or a 17 round .40. I predict a huge victory for "other" in this poll.
--Stork

 

[geronimo509]

Why not 13+1 of .45 HP

 

[threefeathers]

J Frame with Laser sight in one hand, Surefire E-2 in other hand. Cell phone on after quick 911 call.

 

[chris in va]

Whatever you shoot best. Sometimes it's my Sig 220, other times I leave my CZ 75 out on the stand.

 

[benderx4]

Home defense? Here's mine:



One for upstairs, one for downstairs. 12+1 of beautiful 45acp JHP.

 

[Myles]

If I only had one choice for Home Defense, it would not be a handgun.

 

[possum]

i agree the only reason for my hd handgun is to fight my way to my shotgun.

but if it is between the two that you have listed i would take the higher capacity of the 9mm.

 

[woodchuck315]

anything .45acp for a handgun. Good chance intruders could be hopped up on drugs. .45acp has the knockdown to lay them on their ass, and allow you to at least stand a chance. Inner city? .44 mag or larger.

but Primary weapon would be a HD 12ga.

Since I only have a pretty sporting 12ga, Id grab my 1911, or if time was an issue, my Kel-Tec P-11 is always chambered with a full mag (11 rounds total). And, its on my nightstand or on my person.

and the 12ga better be a pump. The sound of a 12 ga pump racking (hard and fast) should scare away any intruder that values life. I racked my shotgun (empty) one day and my brother about messed himself. He agreed anyone hearing that would run....

 

[grimjaw]

Five 12G 00 buck, and two earplugs.

jm

 

[1911shooter]

I had to say other for the fact that my nightstand table is a SIG Sauer P226 with a 20 round magazine and x200 weapon light. stocked with 115gr +P+ ammo.

 

[jeepmor]

For the tight quarters of typical suburbia or apartment living nowadays, the shotgun offers the best option, not a bullet tosser.

jeepmor

 

[Nicky Santoro]

My HD gun is a 1911 with JHPs. I did this because when I made that decision my familiarity with handguns was solely with the 1911 which I carried in the Army. I don't regret the decision but, having to do it over again, and knowing what I know now, I'd go with a K frame S&W in .357 loaded with 125gr JHPs.
Sometimes less is more. That being said, I sleep well with the 1911 in the night stand.

 

[Deanimator]

For the tight quarters of typical suburbia or apartment living nowadays, the shotgun offers the best option, not a bullet tosser.

In the ACTUALLY "tight quarters" of my real apartment, a non-NFA long gun is nearly worthless. I might as well depend upon a naginata.

A handgun is not ALWAYS the best choice.
A shotgun is not ALWAYS the best choice.

Telling total strangers in absolute terms what to use for home defense without even seeing a PICTURE of THEIR home is as ill-advised as planning an infantry attack without seeing the objective or even consulting a map.

Operations orders include the Essential Elements of FRIENDLY Information for a reason.

 

[Boats]

I needed an "all of the above" My nightstander is a Beretta PX-4 9mm with 20+1 147gr JHP rounds at the ready, mainly because the thing mounts a Streamlight.

However, the desk drawer in my home office, where I spend a lot of time, is packing a full size Colt Government Model with 8+1 230gr JHPs and an extra mag. I also have a .357 Magnum and a speedloader stashed in the garage.

I have 12ga shotguns in the closet both in the master bedroom and the office. The handguns are only to make it to those.

 

[glockman19]

While I have 9mm & 45's IMHO If I had only one gun for Home Defense It woulod be a revolver in .357 or .44 mag.

 

[CWL]

I chose "other", as long as it's in 12 gauge.

In my home, a shotgun is the best choice.

 

[Deanimator]

In my home, a shotgun is the best choice.

All things being equal, if you think it is, it probably is.

But what do you know, you just live there...

 

[Deanimator]

My home defense guns are my CCW guns, whichever I've carried that day.

I've got an Ithaca riotgun and an AR carbine, but in my present home, they're a waste of time. Were I to move, that could change.

 

[CountGlockula]

.40S&W baby!

 

[10-Ring]

Still depends on the firearm -- but on a night in, night out basis -- I'd go w/ a Colt 1911 for my 45 acp 8+1

 

[psyopspec]

If you could pick only 1 of the 2, which would you pick for your "Home Defense Only Handgun"?

Which can I shoot with the best balance of accuracy and rapidity?

 

[Poor East Texan]

Other.

Rem 870 18" w/#4 buck.

 

[76shuvlinoff]

These days in MY home the .45 is the "one gun" that escorts me to the 870.

 

[L-Frame]

Ruger GP-100 with buffalo bore 158 +p's.