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If it were absolutely imperative that you get a gun, how long would it take?

  • I'd just draw the one I have on my body...problem solved.

  • I could get one in under five minutes.

  • Less than an hour.

  • Less than a day.

  • Too late, I'm dead.


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zerocool84

Lifer
Nov 11, 2004
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i have no idea where to buy a gun or ammo.

so i died.
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Raduque

Lifer
Aug 22, 2004
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I can get my gun before the bad guy gets through the door and up the stairs.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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www.anyf.ca
Wait are we talking about bad guys getting into your house here? I have a crow bar in a closet about 5 feet from me. Conveniently a land line phone right at my desk so I can call 911 for the ambulance. (cell might be awkward to use with all the blood I'll have on me). Oh, you're suppose to stop hitting when they're not attacking you anymore? I had no idea. :p

On serious note, it's easy to think I'd bust their knee caps or crack their skull open, but at the heat of the moment I'd probably kinda freeze a little and hesitate. Is this really a bad guy situation, or someone trying to play a joke on me, do I really want to kill someone today? Or wait and see what they do... and I'm dead.
 

adairusmc

Diamond Member
Jul 24, 2006
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Not the new one that I mentioned buying earlier in the thread, but this is my current nightstand setup for things that go bump in the night -

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15rds of 45ACP + suppressor in it's short config should work well. Safety first everyone - hearing damage is serious business.
 

BudAshes

Lifer
Jul 20, 2003
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If someone robs your house when you aren't home, how many guns will they score?
 

MongGrel

Lifer
Dec 3, 2013
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I'm almost at home all the time these days, no one is scoring anything here at any rate.

Most people have safes and various things also, if they have a lot of guns.
 
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John Connor

Lifer
Nov 30, 2012
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about 3 minutes, but I haven't cleaned them in a year or so, much less used them, so who knows. I'm also not a sociopath thinking that danger lurks behind every door every second of my life.


Right now about 500 woman are being raped, someone just got robbed and I can go on... It's really not a question of if, but rather when.
 

John Connor

Lifer
Nov 30, 2012
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I can get my gun before the bad guy gets through the door and up the stairs.


*Ding dong* "Who is it?" It's sergeant Evans with the police department. *Opens door* BANG! Your dead. Wasn't a real police officer.

Story is true. The Chicago Outfit pulled that off.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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*Ding dong* "Who is it?" It's sergeant Evans with the police department. *Opens door* BANG! Your dead. Wasn't a real police officer.

Story is true. The Chicago Outfit pulled that off.

That's the scary thing, probably does not take much for someone to impersonate a police officer. But yet if it's a real one, they'll just bust your down and shoot you anyway, but if you shoot first and it does happen to be a police officer then you go to jail for life. So it seems no matter what if someone is at your door and says they're an officer you're kinda screwed.
 

walkur

Senior member
May 1, 2001
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I could prob. get one in a day (all tough the repercussions would be... severe)
I'll just stick to the "hunting"bow or the X-bow that I have at home.
 
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Bird222

Diamond Member
Jun 7, 2004
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Not the new one that I mentioned buying earlier in the thread, but this is my current nightstand setup for things that go bump in the night -

JSWPLgR.jpg


15rds of 45ACP + suppressor in it's short config should work well. Safety first everyone - hearing damage is serious business.

Nice! It would probably take me 1 sec since it's right next to me.
 

BurnItDwn

Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
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at home, just go to basement and unlock safe, get gun, remove trigger lock, load (easy and quick to load as it's a revolver) ... under a minute.
 

Carson Dyle

Diamond Member
Jul 2, 2012
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Same here.

Bedroom's upstairs. If I get to the closet before you get upstairs, you won't get upstairs.

Fat lot of good that does you when they bust through the front door.

You people are all sheep, just waiting to be slaughtered, aren't you?
 

Carson Dyle

Diamond Member
Jul 2, 2012
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15rds of 45ACP + suppressor in it's short config should work well. Safety first everyone - hearing damage is serious business.

I know. Every time I experience a home invasion and I'm forced to snap off a few rounds in the house, it totally wrecks my hearing. Never again... next time will be different.
 

adairusmc

Diamond Member
Jul 24, 2006
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I know. Every time I experience a home invasion and I'm forced to snap off a few rounds in the house, it totally wrecks my hearing. Never again... next time will be different.

I know right? My hearing is definitely more valuable than the lives of anyone wanting to come inside my house and the lives of their accomplices. Safety always comes first.
 

rudder

Lifer
Nov 9, 2000
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Under 5 minutes... not allowed to have guns in the building where I work.