Best (money no issue) self defense weapon for smaller man

[Deleted member 4644]

If I wanted a good self defense weapon, what brand/caliber etc would be best? Basically for home defense. A shotgun? Handgun?

 

[xanis]

If you you don't plan on taking the firearm outside of your house, then you can't go wrong with a Mossberg 500 Persuader.

 

[Sex Smurf]

German Shepard

 

[IEC]

Any kind of dog as early warning + shotgun = sufficient.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

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[hanoverphist]

if its for just home protection, go for something that wont penetrate a wall behind your intruder. shot gun does this nicely. if you want a handgun you can tote with ya occasionally, get a small frame 38 or a 380. those are good starters, just make sure it fits in your hand well and you can operate all the controls (safety, trigger, release) and still control it. fitting a firearm to your needs is much easier when you go to a shooting range that rents firearms to try out, you get to mess around and find one you like. my dad prefers the colt 45, i have a ruger 9mm. both are good. larger frame, easy to use/ maintain. beretta is a good one too, but tons of parts to mess with. make sure to use hollow points if youre using a hand gun for home defense, you dont want to hurt your neighbors (if in an apartment) or anyone that is supposed to be in your house (spouse, kids) in the course of trying to protect them. hollow points will generally segment and destroy the target you hit, but not go very far past that one target (if it even leaves the body).

german shepard if yure not already used to owning a gun, and get one to practice/ learn with. my black labs at home will tear up pretty much anything that gets near my house, inside or out.

 

[Ephemeral]

Izhmash Saiga-12 with 10rd. mag.

 

[Deleted member 4644]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
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Man-traps are illegal in all states that I know of.

 

[squirrel dog]

Walther PPK .380 in stainless. Find one at a good gun range and shoot it.Its my gun of choice and its very good.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Originally posted by: LordSegan

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
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Man-traps are illegal in all states that I know of.

Danm.

Would the OP want to kill/ disable/or drive way the intruder?

Dog
Shotgun with low caliber bullet. 99% of Shotgun bullets will penetrate wall.

 

[Sex Smurf]

ninja stars and sword.

Any bad guy who sees you in the hallway in your ninja outfit will say "WTF!? this guy is a ninja!" and then bolt out the way he came in.

 

[Vonkhan]

First, a dog - German Sheperd or Doberman

 

[Ktulu]

Originally posted by: Sex Smurf
ninja stars and sword.

Any bad guy who sees you in the hallway in your ninja outfit will say "WTF!? this guy is a ninja!" and then bolt out the way he came in.

hahaaha

How about hiding a fake dead body in the closet, as soon as they find that sucker they'll be out the door quick.

 

[deejayshakur]

bullet-resistant windows.

 

[everman]

Peeeeeeps!

 

[FleshLight]

Butterfly knife

 

[Kelvrick]

1 evil henchman at each entrance, 1 on perimiter patrol that checks in with the entrance henchman and 2 on random patrol that checks in with any other henchman.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

The Yarborough always worked for me.

 

[2Xtreme21]

Hmm, since money is no issue, something along the lines of this should suffice.

 

[Specop 007]

Springfield XD series are very nice
HK make outstanding pistols.
I own a Sig and love it, also a very good pistol (P228 to be exact).
Glocks, although I hate them, are fantastic guns.

Your best bet is to find a local gun range that rents pistols and find what fits best FOR YOU.

I would do a pistol with a tactical rail and get a good light on it. The first step in engaging is target identification! And if your wandering around at night a GOOD light is the different between life and death, a good shot and a friend dead.

 

[angminas]

Originally posted by: Sex Smurf
ninja stars and sword.

Any bad guy who sees you in the hallway in your ninja outfit will say "WTF!? this guy is a ninja!" and then bolt out the way he came in.

I tried that, but the ninja outfit takes too long to put on in an emergency, and it itches to sleep in. The guard thing works okay, but they tend to get choked out and people infiltrate your mainframe and stuff. It's a bummer.

At the moment I'm going with just a bunch of empty beer cans and shell casings in my yard and a gigantic chewed-up dog bowl on the porch. I wanted a fiery mumbling French giant in a wheelbarrow, but they wouldn't grant the zoning variance.

 

[DrPizza]

Best self defense? Intelligence: don't get yourself into situations that require you to use a secondary means of defense.

 

[patentman]

A big dog (Rott or Great Dane), OR a glock 40 (but only if you live in texas, where you caqn legitimately shoot someone if "they needed some killin")

 

[patentman]

Originally posted by: Deleted member 4644

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
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Man-traps are illegal in all states that I know of.

Yep, but nothing says stay out like a tripwired shotgun (I refer of course to the myriad U.S. cases where people actually linked the trigger of a shotgun to a door, not to the wiley coyote cartoons)

 

[SoulAssassin]

Originally posted by: hanoverphist
if its for just home protection, go for something that wont penetrate a wall behind your intruder. shot gun does this nicely.

O RLY?

For the record, I own a shotgun. Just point this out so people don't get unrealistic expectations.