How does everyone set up their home defense AR?

[Creedmoor]

Don't need to move iff you kill 'em all as they come in

That's iffffffff.

 

[Leadeye]

Have to agree with the comments about the AR fired in a building.

Quiet, fast and 45 ACP.

 

[chezuki]

 

[Noble Sniper]

I have grandkids that live with me so would either use a handgun or if I’m feeling really surgical my 1301……. I would like to play with those hornets best rounds…. Interesting!!

 

[profjeremy]

Banshee looks interesting, as an aside implants are life changing.

I told my fiancée that and she still won’t get them…

 

[wcd]

I told my fiancée that and she still won’t get them…

I think we may be referring to different things, cochlear implants while not perfect but imagine processing sound for the first time. Life changing

 

[profjeremy]

While I was joking around, it wasn’t meant to be at your expense. It’s amazing what technology can do, glad it’s working for you!

In reference to the topic at hand, most of my PDWs/rifles are set up similarly, but my home defense gun tends to be whatever SBR I’m shooting the most at the time… currently this one:

 

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[wcd]

While I was joking around, it wasn’t meant to be at your expense. It’s amazing what technology can do, glad it’s working for you!

In reference to the topic at hand, most of my PDWs/rifles are set up similarly, but my home defense gun tends to be whatever SBR I’m shooting the most at the time… currently this one:

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No expense or offense taken, it’s just something that has altered my world. I took some adjustments well a lot of adjustment and getting used to.

Does the longer mag effect handling?

 

[profjeremy]

No expense or offense taken, it’s just something that has altered my world. I took some adjustments well a lot of adjustment and getting used to.

Does the longer mag effect handling?

No, I don’t think so. I haven’t measured, but it’s not much longer than a 30 round AR mag. Plus with it having roughly a 9” barrel, the gun does feel a little better balanced than a rifle with a can, which helps with handling.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Banshee looks interesting, as an aside implants are life changing.

They are indeed. My old girlfriend's tips as a dancer increased exponentially after she got hers. Had them paid for in no time.

 

[BigMoose]

Dont forget to go shorter you either have to SBR it and get a tax stamp, or get an AR Pistol instead*. But a pistol as we have seen is fraught with the peril of the ATF's whims.

*once the receiver is a rifle on a 4473, its ALWAYS a rifle. A receiver transferred as just a receiver or as a pistol config can switch to a rifle and back. But if it started its life as a rifle, its permanent. (unless you SBR it)

Well there are pinned and welded 14.5s out there sold from the factory that way.

My home defense AR

 

[Cameramonkey]

Well there are pinned and welded 14.5s out there sold from the factory that way.

My home defense AR

You are correct. But for this discussion it’s irrelevant. There is no point on changing out a 16” barrel with a pinned and welded shorty that still has the same OAL to remain legal.

 

[BigMoose]

You are correct. But for this discussion it’s irrelevant. There is no point on changing out a 16” barrel with a pinned and welded shorty that still has the same OAL to remain legal.

Well that is just the thing. Unless you have an 16 inch AR with just a crowned barrel, the threaded 16 inch barrel will always be longer then 16 inches depending on what muzzle device you running. The standard A2 adds about an inch, so most civilian carbines are somewhere in the 17+ inches range. (Again it depends on what you run)

This compared to the 14.5 with a pinned and welded extended A2 to bring it to exactly 16.1 inches

 

[Cameramonkey]

Well that is just the thing. Unless you have an 16 inch AR with just a crowned barrel, the threaded 16 inch barrel will always be longer then 16 inches depending on what muzzle device you running. The standard A2 adds about an inch, so most civilian carbines are somewhere in the 17+ inches range. (Again it depends on what you run)

This compared to the 14.5 with a pinned and welded extended A2 to bring it to exactly 16.1 inches

So all that money and effort to save a whopping 1 inch.

Sounds worth it.

 

[Born2vette]

I currently rock a 9mm suppressed nightstand pistol with a WML and a 500 lumen flashlight in the drawer with 19+1 and a spare 19 next to it and a 18.5” Mossberg 500 also with a WML. AR is in the safe and unless there is a riot that I hear coming not likely to come out but I have a rehearsed plan to fight my way to the safe if necessary. I am considering a 9mm PDW I can suppress to gain some accuracy and capacity and if it were in the budget an M4 properly kitted out.

 

[Born2vette]

And in case you ever wondered how big a blast a 5.56 pistol makes, take a look at our own @llh1956 shooting a Churchmouse build. And it was pretty loud even with ear pro.

 

[henry0reilly]

Mossberg 500C 20 ga. 20" barrel reamed and ported to reduce recoil.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Mossberg 500C 20 ga. 20" barrel reamed and ported to reduce recoil.

What loads are you running? 20 is known for being pretty light on good defensive load choices.

 

[henry0reilly]

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