Oops: Home Invaders Brought Knives To A Rifle Fight In Michigan

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Oops: Home Invaders Brought Knives To A Rifle Fight In Michigan

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http://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2016/11/14 ... -michigan/

One thing I found personally interesting was this:
Rifles—especially today’s wide array of 5.45 and 5.56 semi-automatic carbines and their “pistol” variants—are a very solid home defense choice favored by many firearms experts for their combination of adaptability, maneuverability, on-call volume of fire, precision, power, and magazine capacity, and while it may be a surprise to many, basic FMJ and varmint hunting rounds in these calibers tend to fragment and run less of a risk of over-penetration in common materials when compared to buckshot from a shotgun or a jacketed hollowpoint from a handgun.
I keep my AR-15 loaded with these just for that reason: https://www.midwayusa.com/product/95383 ... ed-varmint
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And then there's that last paragraph.
I know several instructors who sleep with a pistol with a weapon-mounted light on the nightstand, but with a 5.56 carbine (also equipped with a WML and usually a red-dot sight) leaning against the wall within an arm’s reach.
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Re: Oops: Home Invaders Brought Knives To A Rifle Fight In Michigan

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C-dub wrote:And then there's that last paragraph.
I know several instructors who sleep with a pistol with a weapon-mounted light on the nightstand, but with a 5.56 carbine (also equipped with a WML and usually a red-dot sight) leaning against the wall within an arm’s reach.
This is me.
I don't have the light on my pistol but other than that it is me also.
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