Need help finding a first rifle.

[scatter]

Scrape up 75 dollars more and get yourself a Rossi circuit judge. Chambered in .410 and .45 lc

No. Don't do that.

 

[DarthRevan]

On "energy" and "penetration":


But any load that is going to be effective will need to penetrate walls to have enough power to penetrate bad guys. If our only concern was to be sure we didn’t penetrate walls, we would use BB guns. However, BB guns will not stop bad guys. Therefore, we must use loads that will STOP bad guys, and this means that they will also penetrate walls. So, be sure you hit the bad guy and do not shoot into walls where loved ones are on the other side.

Let me tell you about that penetration....

 

[Da_lucche]

On "energy" and "penetration":


But any load that is going to be effective will need to penetrate walls to have enough power to penetrate bad guys. If our only concern was to be sure we didn’t penetrate walls, we would use BB guns. However, BB guns will not stop bad guys. Therefore, we must use loads that will STOP bad guys, and this means that they will also penetrate walls. So, be sure you hit the bad guy and do not shoot into walls where loved ones are on the other side.

If an AR is going to be someone's goto SD firearm, then investing in 75 Grain TAP or (if you can find them) MK262 or MK318 would be ideal.