Well guess you have me convinced. I'll get the AR out of the safe and prime it up. You think I ought to go with the Colt or the Bushmaster? Maybe the Bushmaster in 7.62x39. But I'm still gonna leave the ole 12 gauge under the bed.
As I said earlier, I just picked up a Norinco 98. I plan to stick with it rather than the AR. I travel a lot, some of the states I visit kinda frown on handguns and anything that looks like an assault rifle.
My son recently had an unwanted visitor in his bedroom as he and his wife lay in the bed sleeping. Most likely a firearm of any type would not have helped unless he was sleeping with it his hands (I don't recommend that). I think if he had woke up, someone may have been hurt bad, and at that point the bad guy had the edge. I don't THINK that could happen to me with a barking poodle and schnauzer sharing my bed. If they wake me, I may not have time to reach for the glasses, a light and the gun, so I have the light attached to the shotgun, and as blind as I am I don't think I can miss a bad guy in the hallways of my house even if I can't find the glasses. I'm counting on the dogs to wake me before he gets to the bedroom. My wife's cell phone is already set on speed dial for 911, I told her to that if it does happen, tell the 911 operator we have an intruder and shots were fired. ( that always get a quicker response from the cops) Course before they get in, they gotta get past the pit/rottweiler in the yard. He is a good dog, but will bite a stranger.
It's really a damn shame we even have to consider things like this, I grew up in the 40s, never locked a door, slept with just the screen dore closed, and best I remember never lost anything. I spent 25 years in the military (retired in 1977), been around the world, and even considering Vietnam I never felt as unsafe as I do today here in the good old USA.
I just learned, the cops think they have caught the kids that broke in my son's home. Two seventeen year olds that broke out of a JD facility in San Antonio. One was from this area