Most popular "Home Defense/Range" pistols/revolvers.

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cluznar

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Obviously more people have home defense guns than carry guns. I often wonder how often people go to the range and practice with those guns? Seems to me that semi-auto pistols are more popular for home defense than revolvers. I realize that a person should buy the highest caliber they can shoot efficiently, but what handguns are really the most popular for home defense? Give me what you keep at home for defense. Here are a few of my top choices for home defense:

Bersa Thunder Pro HC 9mm
Stoeger Cougar 9mm
Beretta PX4 Storm full size 9mm
Ruger SR9 full size 9mm
S&W MP9 full size 9mm

As you can see I am a 9mm guy. I believe a full size gun is best for Home defense. :dirol:
 
For home defense gun(s) I prefer a full size/mid-size revolver.

My wife needs to be able to use them, and there's no safeties, etc to fumble with when the adrenaline is rushing through your body!
cluznar said:
Obviously more people have home defense guns than carry guns. I often wonder how often people go to the range and practice with those guns? Seems to me that semi-auto pistols are more popular for home defense than revolvers. I realize that a person should buy the highest caliber they can shoot efficiently, but what handguns are really the most popular for home defense? Give me what you keep at home for defense. Here are a few of my top choices for home defense:

Bersa Thunder Pro HC 9mm
Stoeger Cougar 9mm
Beretta PX4 Storm full size 9mm
Ruger SR9 full size 9mm
S&W MP9 full size 9mm

As you can see I am a 9mm guy. I believe a full size gun is best for Home defense. :dirol:
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My EDC is also my home defense which is a Sig Sauer P229 9mm loaded with 124gr HST bullets... Am hoping to add a P30 9mm to the list very soon... It'll be a back-up to my P229 but will also serve as a Carry and Home Defense pistol...
 
For EDC I am using a Smith & Wesson MP 40, or a FNH FNS 40. I use 40 in both EDCs so I don't have to buy a new caliber. For HD, I am using whatever handgun to fight my way to one of my long guns, either a Mossberg 930 SPX shotgun or a DPMS AR-15. For a real EOLAWKI moment, I am going for my M1 carbine. It will suppliment the Ruger 10/22 Takedown that I keep in my BO car.
 
Home Defense - Taurus Judge 3" barrel, 2 1/2 chambered with PDX1's for the first two shots then 45 Long Colts.

Every Day - Taurus PT140 Mil Pro (Also home defense too)

Sent from my DROID RAZR using USA Carry mobile app
 
So far, with the SR9c being my EDC and CC and Home Defense, guess it was inevitable it'll be my favorite. Looking forward to either a SR45 and/or a SR1911.

Clint
 
My home defense gun really depends on which room of the house I'm in and how much time I might have to "prepare." I don't have a firearm in every room, but in in 5 or 6, depending on where I put my carry weapon when I return home. If I happened to be in the office, I might go dual AR-15s, or possibly M1 rifle with fixed bayonet, hehe, although firing a .30-06 in the house would be unpleasant and the use of the bayonet might be difficult to explain to a LEO and/or a prosecutor.
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Seriously, I like the Remington 870 shotguns (one upstairs and one downstairs), my Beretta 96 in the coffee table drawer, and I keep a S&W 686 .357 in an armoire by the bed. I love the revolver for the reason the above poster mentioned (no safety, but also no jams or wondering if there's a round chambered or not). Plus, those 158-grain JHPs coming out of that .357 are just devastating. Sometimes I wish I could CC that revolver, but carrying a square-butt, K-frame concealed is about like smuggling a brick with a piece of rebar sticking out of it.
 
Most popular "Home Defense/Range" pistols/revolvers.

I keep my G23 EDC on my nightstand while I'm asleep, my wife keeps her LC9 on hers, and there's a 930 SPX mounted next to the bed in a quick access shotlock incase we need it. I've though about keeping a handgun on the main floor too but realized it was kind of pointless since anytime I'm not in bed I have my EDC on me. Even if I go downstairs for a glass of water in the middle of the night, I take my gun with me. It's just second nature to me at this point. Don't leave the bedroom without a gun.
 
I keep a S&W full-sized 6 shot J frame by my wife's side of the bed (she just loves her "wheel guns" ) and on my side there's a Sig P226 9mm with rail mounted tac-light for those midnight "bumps" that need investigating. As far as EDC, I like my Sig (without the light) because I have gotten use the feel of it and since I'm a slim guy, I can carry it in an IWB or OWB holster covered with a t-shirt no problem......Of course, in a HD situation in which I have enough time, I'm goin for my Bennelli!
 
Home defense gun is a Glock 22 (.40) and a Mossberg 590A1 12 ga. pump if necessary.

Carry gun is a Springfield Armory XD-S .45 Bi-Tone.

I practice with all of them regularly.

Future purchases include an AR or a Glock 27 (again .40) or possibly something for the wife if she ever gets interested in getting something for herself.
 
cluznar said:
Here are a few of my top choices for home defense:

Bersa Thunder Pro HC 9mm
Stoeger Cougar 9mm
Beretta PX4 Storm full size 9mm
Ruger SR9 full size 9mm
S&W MP9 full size 9mm

As you can see I am a 9mm guy. I believe a full size gun is best for Home defense. :dirol:
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My choice and what is in our quick access safe is the Beretta PX4 Storm full size 9mm 17+1 safety off, but a long double action trigger pull for the first shot. The rotating barrel results in very little felt recoil and it is the favourite 9mm of my wife and kids so I am confident that they could use it effectively if I was unable to. Mossberg 500 12 gauge Tactical Persuader with #4 buckshot in the long gunsafe.

Stoeger Cougar 9mm is an older model that the Px4 was based on, is $100 less and made in Turkey. Just spend the extra $100 for the newer design made in USA Beretta Px4.
Bersa Thunder Pro HC 9mm is a heavier and less refined hammer fired pistol. Nothing wrong with Bersa, I have a Thunder 380CC for EDC, but why not get the best for home defense.

While I am not a fan of striker fired pistols, I'd recommend the S&W MP9 over the Ruger SR9 as it has better grip comfort and ergonomic controls. I'd also take a Glock 17 over the SR9.
 
EDC Sig C3 .45ACP, Home defense starts with the same gun if someone has made it in the house. Otherwise home defense starts with a rifle in the .30 range or rifle in the 9mm range. 30+ rounds makes for better chances to end well for me and bad for them. Range guns are the S&W 9mm and .45 and the russian guns.
 
EDC and home defense pistol are the same... G23 or G22 Glock (.40 cal)

However, there is also the pump shotgun (not a pistol though).

The pistol I train with, I carry, and use for home defense. So, yes, I train with my home defense weapon.
 
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