I would agree with PT99 about a small handgun (low recoil) being better in this case than a 44 magnum, but the AK carbine is even easier to use then a small 380 auto. The worst thing about the AK is that it's loud, but I assure you, that's not going to be what you are thinking about if your life is on the line.
As a former US Marine and also in the employ of the DOD for several years, I have trained thousands of men and women in combat tactics. I have used and tested more kinds and types of weapons then I can easily count.
Please trust me on this issue. It's best to divorce yourself from the "conventional wisdom" that is bantered around all the time if the threat is real.
If the budget would allow, and if I could "write the script" what I would recommend would be to buy 2 small handguns for both this gentleman and another one for his wife, with an AK-47 Folder as the "common weapon" for the car.
The handguns “live” on your body at all times. By quality, but buy guns that are “easy to get along with”.
The propose of the handgun is to break contact and/or buy time. You use a handgun to kill an enemy if at all possible, but in most cases causing an enemy to take a defensive position instead of an offensive position gives you some time to get the “real weapon” into action, and that is usually when things go REAL BAD for the enemy. A wounded enemy is usually not as effective as a healthy enemy, so a handgun in your hand in 2 seconds is better then a rifle in your hand in 10 seconds, but if the handgun can buy you 15 seconds, the enemy is going to be wishing he’d picked a fight with someone else (ANYONE else) when you get your rifle
And Spacecoast, you are correct in that you would have problems shouldering an AK from the inside of a car. So what? You don't shoulder a handgun either. Hence the folding stock.
Try it some time. Set a target out at 5 yards and shoot it from a chair. Do it at odd angles as you might have to in a car. Use a carbine with 2 hands and use a hand gun with both one and two hands. See which one you get better hits with.
Not think of the same scenario, but put a car door in front of the target.
Shoot through the car door to make the hits
Do this kind of test honestly and shoot about 100 rounds from every weapon you can.
See what the results are when you are finished.
5 will get you 10, you'll be 100% in agreement with me when the test of finished.
As a former US Marine and also in the employ of the DOD for several years, I have trained thousands of men and women in combat tactics. I have used and tested more kinds and types of weapons then I can easily count.
Please trust me on this issue. It's best to divorce yourself from the "conventional wisdom" that is bantered around all the time if the threat is real.
If the budget would allow, and if I could "write the script" what I would recommend would be to buy 2 small handguns for both this gentleman and another one for his wife, with an AK-47 Folder as the "common weapon" for the car.
The handguns “live” on your body at all times. By quality, but buy guns that are “easy to get along with”.
The propose of the handgun is to break contact and/or buy time. You use a handgun to kill an enemy if at all possible, but in most cases causing an enemy to take a defensive position instead of an offensive position gives you some time to get the “real weapon” into action, and that is usually when things go REAL BAD for the enemy. A wounded enemy is usually not as effective as a healthy enemy, so a handgun in your hand in 2 seconds is better then a rifle in your hand in 10 seconds, but if the handgun can buy you 15 seconds, the enemy is going to be wishing he’d picked a fight with someone else (ANYONE else) when you get your rifle
And Spacecoast, you are correct in that you would have problems shouldering an AK from the inside of a car. So what? You don't shoulder a handgun either. Hence the folding stock.
Try it some time. Set a target out at 5 yards and shoot it from a chair. Do it at odd angles as you might have to in a car. Use a carbine with 2 hands and use a hand gun with both one and two hands. See which one you get better hits with.
Not think of the same scenario, but put a car door in front of the target.
Shoot through the car door to make the hits
Do this kind of test honestly and shoot about 100 rounds from every weapon you can.
See what the results are when you are finished.
5 will get you 10, you'll be 100% in agreement with me when the test of finished.
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