Any Use Plastic Bullets for Home Defense?

[hambam105]

Plastic 11 grain bullet, ha! Everybody knows that anything less than 15 grains of plastic bullet is useless.

[DannyInSoCal]

As a back up - Try the towel snap technique. Aim for the taint...

[Intimid8tor]

At short ranges this stuff will penetrate through and through. It loses velocity very quickly and past 50 yards the accuracy is non existent but close up it will kill. Don't screw around with this stuff. They are not like blanks.

I don't think anyone is saying its not dangerous just that it makes no sense to use it as a HD round.

[smle-man]

I don't think anyone is saying its not dangerous just that it makes no sense to use it as a HD round.

Thanks, I posted my comments in the interest of stopping another firearms related tragedy.

As Sergeant Esterhaus always said, "Let's be careful out there".

[Intimid8tor]

Thanks, I posted my comments in the interest of stopping another firearms related tragedy.

As Sergeant Esterhaus always said, "Let's be careful out there".

I hear you. We're talking about the lack of lethality and someone takes that to mean they are not dangerous and shoots their friend with one. Good to put those disclaimers in there. Same with blanks.

[nitroxdiver]

There's a cool German 7.62 plastic military training round, and requisite replacement bolt carrier group without rollers, available for the HK 91/G3/PTR91 series rifles at Dans ammo. Certainly an interesting collectible, and lethal at close range, but I wouldn't count on it as a SD round, even in a rifle.


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[safety-1st]

If your intent is not to kill the intruder then a stun gun would be your best bet. Your life and your family's is on the line though.

[SactoDoug]

My thought was for my neighbor's well being, not the intruder's.

[bigger hammer]

At short ranges this stuff will penetrate through and through. It loses velocity very quickly and past 50 yards the accuracy is non existent but close up it will kill. Don't screw around with this stuff. They are not like blanks.

This is a bit off topic and I'm sure that YOU know this, but don't screw around with blanks either. At very short ranges they can kill too.

[captbilly]

Pretty casual attitude towards human life.

Dead intruders don't sue for medical bills...

That's true. And dead people can't raise their children, or find a cure for diseases, or do any of the things that the person killing them, because that person felt their life was worth another's, can do. When one even considers killing another person he/she needs to have exhausted all the other possible solutions.

This kind of casual attitude towards killing with guns is the one of the reasons anti-gun people are so concerned.

[Merc1138]

That's true. And dead people can't raise their children, or find a cure for diseases, or do any of the things that the person killing them, because that person felt their life was worth another's, can do. When one even considers killing another person he/she needs to have exhausted all the other possible solutions.

This kind of casual attitude towards killing with guns is the one of the reasons anti-gun people are so concerned.

Sorry, but someone breaking into my home and posing any sort of threat to me has decided that my TV or whatever it was they were trying to steal or do, is worth more than their own life. Those people are not going to cure cancer, likely don't give a damn about their kids if they have any, or anything worthwhile on this planet.

Does that mean the focus should be to kill the threat? No, it just happens that shooting a threat dead is an excellent way of quickly stopping a threat. I have no compassion for dirtbags who go out of their way to detrimentally affect others.

edit: The train of thought that someone defending themselves against a threat is the one making the decision that someone else's life is meaningless, is one of the bull**** points that gets brought up whenever some sweet little angel who would never harm anyone gets killed by a law abiding citizen in defense. That thinking is wrong. It attempts to put some sort of guilt on the person defending themselves that they could have should have would have used some other option life is sacred blah blah blah. It's bull**** because the attacker is the one who made the decision about their own life to steal a TV, punch someone in the head, rape or even try to murder someone.

[smle-man]

This is a bit off topic and I'm sure that YOU know this, but don't screw around with blanks either. At very short ranges they can kill too.

Indeed, very true. It has happened more than once on movie sets for example.

[19K]

That's true. And dead people can't raise their children, or find a cure for diseases, or do any of the things that the person killing them, because that person felt their life was worth another's, can do. When one even considers killing another person he/she needs to have exhausted all the other possible solutions.

This kind of casual attitude towards killing with guns is the one of the reasons anti-gun people are so concerned.

Quite possibly the dumbest thing I've heard. Looks like your house is the place to go to in the middle of the night.

[Donk310]

WOW! Never seen those before. I wouldn't mind trying them out on the range.

[AK4me]

Heck no!

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