I'm planning on buying a revolver soon. Any suggestions? Btw, congrats on your purchase further. Guns are fun to shoot for target practice and it's a great protection device for your home
...and there you have it, folks...denny (a.k.a. The ACME Judgment Co.)...thinks he's the voice of reason on every topic...& he'd rather be a victim than a gun owner.
I shot all of these, and they are all good guns. I have a MP, and the main reason is that it (and the Ruger) are made in the USA. (At the time I bought mine they were having problems with the SR guns, a problem they have fixed now.) Good for you Further, for buying made in America. Go Blazers
I don't think you can beat S&W, but there are lots of good wheel guns out there. Price the availability and cost of the ammo before you buy. Consider buying a caliber that has bird/snake shot rounds available. Consider the most likely direction you would have to shoot at an intruder in your house. If you buy a .44 mag, it will probably go through 3-4 walls (the snake shot won't do that). Are you likely to hit your neighbor's bedroom? That's the reason I traded my .41 mag out for a 9mm for my home defense gun. Go Blazers
No. I feel the same except I know I have a tool at my disposal which can be used in the event of a catastrophic emergency to protect myself and my loved ones. And it's fun to target shoot. I suggest you read the Sam Harris article that I linked in the original post.
It's the picture partially, the hand holding it is giant. But it is fairly compact also. It's meant to be an every day carry gun. But it shoots accurately, has very little kick and packs .40 caliber rounds, witch is a pretty good sized caliber. But it's slim, only being a single stack magazine, so it only holds 6+1. All the edges are beveled so it won't get snagged on anything during a draw, and it's DAO, so there is no external hammer to get caught.
No, but from the pic I posted, the gun did look sub compact, but it's just the photo. For those unaware of ammo size, here are many of the most common handgun ammo. //i.imgflip.com/5u2iu.jpg
The stopping power of a 9mm is fine with the right ammo. There's not much difference. Plus, there's always the argument of "if you put 2 in the chest and 1 in the head, they will not know the difference."
Looks like a nice gun. Personally, I prefer shotguns and rifles, both for home defense and sport. For home defense, I just feel like nothing intimidates like a 12 gauge, it's got a pretty damned low likelihood of missing, and it's much, much less likely to penetrate through walls and go on to injure innocent people. It's also, much, much more difficult to waive a shotgun or rifle in a way that accidentally points it at somebody unintentionally (try pointing a broom at the floor, the ceiling and behind you, vs pointing a carrot in the same directions, for example.) For sport, eventually I get pretty damned bored shooting at small stationary targets. When you can go out with a couple friends though and blast at 50 or 100 clay pigeons, it's a hell of a lot more fun. Maybe it's especially nice for me because I typically tend to be the best or second best shot in the group, which is a skill that literally took me 20 years to develop. When I'm clowning around with friends a little it's fun to show off by throwing 2 pigeons (one hand thrower in each hand) and seeing if I can pick up my gun and hit 'em both. It's pretty much the only outdoors activity I can do where I feel like I can be at near elite-level on a given day. Then you add in the potential to go out and hunt, and the big guns can't be beat. So many great memories crawling the mountains of Idaho looking for grouse, chukar, partridge, deer, turkey, moose....now that I'm moving to England I plan on going after wood pigeon and goose more. If I were you, though, OP, I'd have a hair trigger about giving up my guns at the very first sign of depression. I love what my guns allow me to do, but I've been around a lot of mental illness in my life, and I don't know anybody who really gets "cured." You have good times and bad times, and when things get good it's maybe easy to hope that it never goes bad again. But it probably will. The suicide rate among states with high gun ownership are astronomically higher than those with low gun ownership. It's not that gun owners are more suicidal, it's just that guns are so much more effective than any other means. If you feel things start taking a dark turn, just get rid of the guns. It's just an object like any other--you can buy a replacement for about the same price you sell it, so it's no problem in the big picture to take some time off while you sort things out. You've probably already thought this through, so sorry if I sound patronizing. TL/DR: Fuck the pea shooters, get yerself a scattergun. It's safer, more fun, better home defense and you can kill critters! Also, don't shoot your eye out.
Home protection, yes, but he's getting a concealed weapon permit. You can't hide a shotgun on your person.
Yeah, and I guess I just don't get that so much. If I'm out and about, odds are that if I'm mugged I'm not going to want to shoot the guy anyway. I'd rather hand over wallet and my shitty car than live with the guilt of shooting somebody, even if I only wounded them. I've killed a lot of animals in my life, and I've seen some pretty grim deaths where I fucked up. I can live with it because it was an animal that eventually fed me. I couldn't live with myself if that happened to another person. A Sandy Hook scenario is so remote that it seems ludicrous to even consider. If somebody is breaking into my home, though, my wife and kids are there, it's dark, and I think I have a primal instinct in me that wants to defend my own turf. I don't know if it's rational, but it's somehow different for me. I could live with shooting somebody there. If I lived in an area where I felt I really needed a concealed weapons permit just to be out and about, I'd focus more on moving than getting that permit.
There are other advantages to having one. You can have a loaded gun in your car if you have a CHL, you can't do that without one. Personally, I have a CHL but I almost never carry. I know a lot of people who feel naked if they aren't carrying. I don't want to feel like that.
Some of those pea shooters can be pretty intimidating too: This is my backup in case of serious need. Main is a HK45. I don't disagree with the shotgun approach though. If I had one and a place to get very good using it I might do that (not as many shotgun ranges as pistol ranges in SoCal). Reasons against should be considered too: 1) harder to lock up and get to than a pistol. I have a quick release coded locked case by my bed I can get into in 3 seconds ready to shoot. I don't want a loaded shotgun sitting around and haven't seen a good way to keep one locked, but get to it quickly. 2) more difficult to get proficient with a shotgun if you live in a city. 3) depending on the layout of your home, overspray from a shotgun could be more dangerous than penetration from a handgun. But, shotguns are very good for many, if not most people.
Nice post. Ok, a few topics to touch on. First, the most important, I agree about giving up my guns immediately if depression returns. But honestly, I think I'm over that. There were some major issues I needed to deal with and have worked on those. Not to say I won't get depressed, but there is a big difference between normal depression and a clinical one. But one of the benefits of coming clean on those issues to close family and friends is I now have people in my corner to help make sure a clinical depression never sets in, and if one does, I have people to observe me and make sure I seek immediate assistance with those issues. Next topic, the CHL. I don't plan on being someone who carries, but taking the class and getting the license is part of my process in educating myself properly. I'll likely also take a course or two on shooting. If I'm going to own, I want to be knowledgeable, and I didn't grow up with any firearms or firearm education. Also, as Nate said, keeping it in the car, or going to and from the range, it's nice to not have to separate the gun and ammo or open carry. Also, I camp a lot, and there is always a risk when in the wilderness that you come upon a meth head or something like that. Why do I have a gun? It's not to protect my property, it's to protect myself and my loved ones. But more than that, if there is an environmental (or economic) catastrophe and society breaks down for a period of time, I want to have protection in that case. I'm not a doomsday believer, but earthquakes happen and riots happen, and even if unlikely, I would like to be able to protect my loved ones. Also in the back of my mind, being Jewish, I will always worry about a neo-nazi uprising. I may also get a shotgun or rifle in the future, in fact I have been looking into it. I have a couple friends who go hunting and I do believe that since I eat meat, I should at some point go hunting and better connect myself with the food I eat. I have been thinking about a Ruger American 30.06 as recommended by a friend, but lately I have been thinking a hunting shotgun might be more appropriate, as I could use it for deer, water foul or anything in-between. I won't be hunting this season, it would be next winter if I do, so I have plenty of time to consider this topic. Honestly I'm not too sure if hunting is for me, but I think I should experience what it is to track, kill, skin, gut, chop up and eat from start to finish. Also, I simply love hiking and being outdoors with friends, so a hunting trip sounds like a good time even if we don't get a kill. I went skeet shooting once years ago and had a fun time. It does seem like a good choice.
