Best firearm for home protection? I realize a lot is personal choice involved?

[two_bit_score]

Why would you pull the trigger twice? Personally I wouldn’t leave a home defense revolver empty chambered but you’re supposed to leave the empty chamber under the hammer. The idea is if it was dropped and landed on the hammer it could go off. When you pull the trigger ( which there’s zero chance of doing accidentally on a double action revolver ) it rotates the cylinder to a live round and fires the first time.

I didn’t say ‘leave the empty chamber under the hammer‘.

Moss explained a little more about the post by Thing that my reply was to.
His idea was that the empty chamber would prevent a child from picking up the gun and pulling the trigger and firing it. So the empty chamber would be the first one up when you pulled the trigger.

You’d have to pull the trigger once to hit the empty cylinder then again to hit a Live round. That is unless you reset the cylinder when you grabbed your gun to confront the home invader. Unlikely but possible, I guess, just very time consuming and fumbling with it would be another chance for something to go wrong when seconds may count.

I think a child is also just as likely to pick up a gun, open the cylinder, spin it, flip it shut and then pull the trigger.

It’s best to never have guns accessible to children. But there is really no telling how kids will act about guns.

None of ours ever showed any curiosity about our firearms that I ever knew about when they were young.

 

[MossRoad]

Well.... funny thing about kids. They might listen to their parents, but not all the time, or their friends' parents might not have the same set of rules. I never knew my father kept a loaded 1911 hidden in his nightstand. Probably because we weren't allowed in their bedroom without permission. When I was around 8, he showed it to me and told me never to touch it, and if I ever wanted to see it, to tell him and we'd look at it together. Now over at my best friend's house, his dad kept a loaded .22LR revolver and a box of shells in his desk drawer. They had no rules at that household. We found it and shot it into the woods in their back yard, reloaded it, and put it back in the drawer. It was easy to squeeze that trigger. Fortunately, we didn't kill ourselves or a neighbor.

When my wife and I got married, the next day we had a big party at her folks' house for all the people that were left in town, and we opened presents, cards, and ate leftovers. My nephew was 3. My sister was anti-gun, and he'd never had a toy gun, or seen one as far as she knew. Well, the nephew wandered over to a neighbor's sandbox to play. He came back, walked over to his mom, pointed a toy silver revolver right at her face and said BANG BANG BANG. My sister started bawling. No matter how you try to protect them, they know what a gun is, even at 3 years old.

About 5 years later, we were staying at her house in Indy. We went to a Stones concert. While sneaking into their house quietly after the concert, so as not to wake her kids, as we walked past her 2nd child's bedroom, the door was cracked open. We peaked in and the little one was standing in his crib in a diaper pointing a toy gun at us and squeezing the trigger with the biggest smile. It was a snub nosed .38 bulldog. But the end of the barrel had a little dogs face, and when you'd pull the trigger, the dog's mouth would open and it would squeak.

Anyhow, be careful with your firearm storage. Kids are curious, and despite best efforts, some of them will figure it out. We did.

 

[4570Man]

Someone earlier suggested leaving the NEXT chamber open so it wouldn't shoot on one pull in case a child picked it up and pulled the trigger.

Personally, I believe your gun should never be accessible by a child ever, but to each their own. There are numerous stories of small children shooting another household member. That's 100% on the gun owner. In a safe, trigger lock, or on your person... that's about it. Even up out of reach doesn't cut it. Kids are curious, and if they know it's there, they might want to touch it.

Stupid idea IMO. You’re putting yourself at a big disadvantage if you ever did need to use your weapon and if a kid pulled the trigger once they could just as well pull it again. Fact being they probably will since nothing happened the first time. Have you ever seen a kid playing with a toy gun shoot it one time and put it down?

 

[MossRoad]

I wouldn't call it stupid. Someone was just thinking of a way to help prevent a tragedy. However, I agree that it probably wouldn't do any good. I mean, a little kid picks up a gun and squeezes the trigger, it goes CLICK, so kid does it again. BANG.

 

[4570Man]

I wouldn't call it stupid. Someone was just thinking of a way to help prevent a tragedy. However, I agree that it probably wouldn't do any good. I mean, a little kid picks up a gun and squeezes the trigger, it goes CLICK, so kid does it again. BANG.

It’s a good way to get yourself shot at little to no positive benefit so I’m filling it in the stupid category. The intruder is presumably armed if you’re shooting to start with and starting a gun fight with a clicking revolver probably isn’t going to end great for you.

 

[PILOON]

Hypothetically speaking, If one did not scrap it and was later found by the "authorities", what would be the fine?

I have been offered $100. for it (I paid $30, it is a H&R cheep 6 shot) but how to explain that ('I lost it' ?) Like 'lost in my home'?
No, I'll eventually bite the bullet and cut it up I guess.
The SN is registered to me so selling is a no/no.

Fine?, don't know but there might even be more serious consequences since it is now banned weapon in same category as AK47 and UZI and with all the political pressures they might just like to make publicity.

 

[Industrial Toys]

We always shot at stuff to see what would happen. Got stuff at the dump, destroyed it and took it back, often in the middle of the night.

I can't say I was ever impressed with 45ACP.

 

[Jstpssng]

Why would you pull the trigger twice? Personally I wouldn’t leave a home defense revolver empty chambered but you’re supposed to leave the empty chamber under the hammer. The idea is if it was dropped and landed on the hammer it could go off. When you pull the trigger ( which there’s zero chance of doing accidentally on a double action revolver ) it rotates the cylinder to a live round and fires the first time.

That hasn't applied for years, since they came out with the transfer bar. You're more apt to have the safety fail on a semi if it was dropped.

I was taught from an early age that no gun is a toy. If my mother ever caught me pointing one at another person I would lose it, permanantly.
I've often wondered what that Roy Rogers cap gun would be worth today, if she hadn't taken it away from me and presumably thrown it into the trash.

 

[two_bit_score]

We always shot at stuff to see what would happen. Got stuff at the dump, destroyed it and took it back, often in the middle of the night.

I can't say I was ever impressed with 45ACP.

Unless you were picking up bodies of some kind at the dump and shooting them up, then Yes, you would probably be disappointed in a .45 ACP. A .357 has more penetrating ability through car doors, etc than a .45 ACP from my experience. Your mileage may vary.

 

[MossRoad]

We always shot at stuff to see what would happen. Got stuff at the dump, destroyed it and took it back, often in the middle of the night.

I can't say I was ever impressed with 45ACP.

You ever been shot with one?