{"id":3824,"date":"2016-08-23T09:01:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T13:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2016-08-23T09:01:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T13:01:58","slug":"whats-your-home-defense-gun-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/whats-your-home-defense-gun-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT\u2019S YOUR HOME DEFENSE GUN CHOICE?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was a little boy, my dad\u2019s choice of home defense gun was \u201cAmerican Traditional\u201d: a double barrel 12 gauge shotgun and double-aught buckshot. Joe Biden would have approved.<\/p>\n

The shotgun was the home defense standard in this country for centuries, but recently we\u2019ve seen a huge surge in the adoption of the A15 rifle for this purpose. With proper ammo, it won\u2019t penetrate through residential building materials any more than a service pistol bullet, but is very easy for all authorized members of the family to manipulate, particularly when equipped with the telescoping stock so hated by those who scream for the ban of \u201cassault weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the other end of the spectrum, my old friend Rich Grassi made a case in The Tactical Wire<\/em><\/a> for the tiny Ruger LCP .380 pistol as part of the home defense armory. Reason: it can be constantly carried in your pocket, giving you a firearm instantly at hand wherever you are inside or outside the four walls, buying you time to fight your way to something more substantial if necessary.<\/p>\n

As I write this, our current home defense guns<\/span> motel room defense guns are a couple of .45 autos: A Springfield Armory Range Officer 1911A1 on my side, and a ROBAR Custom Glock 30-S for the lady of the house<\/span> hotel room.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your <\/em>current approach to home defense hardware?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a little boy, my dad\u2019s choice of home defense gun was \u201cAmerican Traditional\u201d: a double barrel 12 gauge shotgun and double-aught buckshot. Joe Biden would have approved. The shotgun was the home defense standard in this country for centuries, but recently we\u2019ve seen a huge surge in the adoption of the A15 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearms"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}