home defense choice

[franciscu]

I'm new, first time poster.

In a home defense/ home intrusion scenario what weapon would be preferable -- the Kel-Tec SU16C or a 12 gage shotgun?

[Dragunov]

I'm new, first time poster.

In a home defense/ home intrusion scenario what weapon would be preferable -- the Kel-Tec SU16C or a 12 gage shotgun?

Twelve gauge pump with bird shot. Why? .223 can go through walls and kill/injure your neighbor or another family member. 12 gauge with bird shot is just plain LETHAL to a human being at <7yds, about the longest distance you'll be shooting in the average house and not likely to penetrate walls under most conditions. My second choice is a .380. Buy one, practice with it. At <10yds it is as deadly as a .44mag if you know how to use it.

Rifles in general are more difficult and dangerous to use for home defense. I keep a loaded .380 and a loaded SU16 by my bed at night. The SU is a "backup" in case the .380
fails for some reason.

Hope this helps!

[Joseph]

Twelve gauge pump with bird shot.

I'll second that for all the reasons cited plus one more - the "ca-CHUNK" sound of a round being jacked into the chamber of a pump shotgun is a sound everyone is familiar with. If a bad guy hears it, he's probably going to be long gone before you even see him.

Of course, you'll have a mess to clean up where he was standing...

Joseph

[Dragunov]

Twelve gauge pump with bird shot.

I'll second that for all the reasons cited plus one more - the "ca-CHUNK" sound of a round being jacked into the chamber of a pump shotgun is a sound everyone is familiar with. If a bad guy hears it, he's probably going to be long gone before you even see him.

Of course, you'll have a mess to clean up where he was standing...

Joseph

+1 on the sound of racking one in a 12 gauge Bro'!
+1 on the mess. This would be the downside to the 12 gauge.

[garebel]

+1 again on both of those....especially the mess!

ewwww!