I've seen discussions before about how you would handle a home invasion and wanted to see what the general consensus was, and why you feel it is the appropriate thing to do.
I choose to already have one in the chamber...no need to rack one. Sure it sounds cool, and may scare the living crap out of the BG, but that isn't why I have my 12 ga. It is to eliminate the threat, and I see no advantage to rack one to give the BG a warning, and in certain situations, delays my ability to react. Plus, if you were attempting to be in stealth mode, racking your shotgun certainly would make that difficult.
This is the way I see it. I feel that if the first two wasn't enough to make you go down or at least want to, the third will make cherry pie of your gourd.Locked and cocked... but I will give a warning-
The first two in your chest is the warning, if you don't hit the floor the next one is in your face!
Ready to rock and roll!!!!
As far as the Remington 870 goes, the safety is a trigger block only, and does not prevent the hammer from striking the firing pin, or the firing pin from moving forward with sufficient force to strike the primer of a live round, if the gun is struck with enough force to do so. This is why police departments that use the 870 ALWAYS mandate that it is carried in "cruiser ready" condition....which is a fully loaded tube, empty chamber. There have been cases with 870's in which a buttstroke with a loaded chamber caused the firing of a live round.
I don't know about the Mossberg design, but I always kept my shotguns in the house with an empty chamber, loaded mag tube. I don't rely on them for first line home defense, however, preferring a pistol with a tactical light for that purpose. Shotguns are excellent for static defense, but they are a pain to try to maneuver with in tight quarters, or to operate with one hand. My pistol is always kept with a loaded chamber, since it is drop safe and will not fire without the trigger being pulled.
Really good looking alarm system!!after the alarm has been sounded by these two
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I would like to hear some more about the 870 firing with safety on. Can any of the guys over at TSH help us out? Zoub?
The reason I ask that that a lot of guns do not have a firing pin block. Take the old (series 70) and many new 1911's. They do not have a firing pin block but you would have to drop them just right from a decent height to make the light firing pin move against the strong spring enough to pop a primer off.
Is this similar with 870s? was the above mentioned gun dropped 20' from a tree stand height or 5' human height (like in dropping while fighting, walking, running, etc)
Basically is this like saying that carrying your CCW or OCW loaded is dangerous because it could slide out of the holster and snag the trigger if you are jumping upside down on a 300lb purple tiger???