HOME DEFENSE: Handgun versus Small Frame AR

After being shot in the house through both my knees by a 9mm, I prefer 5.56 for home defense.

9mm will ventilate you, but you might not even feel it and can still fight/kill. I didn’t even go into shock and I had 4 drinking fountain faucets bleeding like a cartoon from my legs/knees.

You will probably know when you’re hit with 5.56.

iu
100% fuck pistols if you can get to a rifle.
 
9mm micro EDC pistol with light and red dot is literally always within 1 step of me if it's not on me....then there's a 12 gauge and other tools spread evenly as I make my way towards safe which I highly doubt would ever NEED to be opened to handle business

For 5.56 ......there's the copper frangible ammo that won't go through walls too bad and is also FAA rated as a side note....BLUF = reduced wall penetration option for those in need

I don't have one but......a mag fed semi 12 gauge = all you'd ever need 99% of the time if it's just you or you and wife in your bedroom without any other friendlies to worry about in the house......9mm = one bullet per pull.....00 Buck = multiple nearly 9mm sized pellets coming out per pull
I like #1 Buck, Federal Flite Control reduced recoil but I don't think they make it anymore. Got 5 in the Shockwave.
 
After being shot in the house through both my knees by a 9mm, I prefer 5.56 for home defense.

9mm will ventilate you, but you might not even feel it and can still fight/kill. I didn’t even go into shock and I had 4 drinking fountain faucets bleeding like a cartoon from my legs/knees.

You will probably know when you’re hit with 5.56.

iu

Oooof.. both knees? Ouch. Share more ? If not no worries.
 
I'm in komifornia so on my nightstand is a kukri with 13 inch blade (thanks @sirhrmechanic ) . Plan is to hack my way to the garage, unlock it, unlock the safe, grab a pew pew, look for the key in the safe for the separate lock box that has the ammo in it,(fuck where is that fucking key), unlock the ammo storage, load the pew pew....shit I might be fucked.
 
After being shot in the house through both my knees by a 9mm, I prefer 5.56 for home defense.

9mm will ventilate you, but you might not even feel it and can still fight/kill. I didn’t even go into shock and I had 4 drinking fountain faucets bleeding like a cartoon from my legs/knees.

You will probably know when you’re hit with 5.56.

iu
I still think he deserves a promotion to SSGT or something like that, if he was in.

But I read is autobiography. Not really into that and it really was self defense.

Anyway, to the question at hand.

Most ready and mobile is my 9 mm with the 17 rd mag, one in the pipe. I have the booger picker safety.

The most accurate, of course, would be the 5.56 because you have three points of contact. Trigger hand on the grip, butt on the shoulder, off-hand on the handguard. That's why even grandma can do great with a 5.56.

Shotties are nice, to0, but perhaps a bit awkward in tight spaces. Mine is a Mossberg 590A1 SPX and it holds 8 of the 2.75" shells in the tube and one in the chamber. And it came with a bayonette, as well. Smooth bore, it does well with slugs, which make giant holes that do not stop bleeding.

But for now, my S&W M&P M2.0 in 9 mm with the 4.25 barrel and the 17 rd mag is the best bet. Agile, easy to handle, accurate for what I need from it. Never far from me, usually on my person in an OSB holster under a large shirt, sweater, or jacket.
 
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The most accurate, of course, would be the 5.56 because you have three points of contact. Trigger hand on the grip, butt on the shoulder, off-hand on the handguard. That's why even grandma can do great with a 5.56.
Four or five points of contact shooting hand, support hand, shoulder, cheek, tensioned sling.