Home invasions, and violence in general is a lot less in the US than most realize. For many people in the US owning a firearm for self/ home defense is the same as owning a fire extinguisher, smoke detector, or having a spare tire for your car, or keeping blankets in your car during winter if you live up north. It is not that most of us are worried or scared, rather it’s just a tool to have Incase something goes wrong. I have never had to use one in defense, though there’s been a couple of close calls over the years
Well said! Only experienced one home invasion in my life. I was in middle school and we suspected our lowlife neighbor was looking for something to steal. It was early morning on a holiday so everyone was still in bed. Mom heard footsteps and assumed it was me. Later in the day she noticed the back door lock had been forced open. Nobody was harmed.
Same thing I came here to say. I have a fire extinguisher, in my house and my car. Have never used one in either. Never had my smoke alarm go off due to an actual fire. Better to have and not need it, than to need it and not have it.
You think we're the only ones who are so star-spangled awesome that we're the only ones who have freedom? Over the last dozen years I've lived in two countries outside the US--both with heavy gun restrictions and both free, First-World Western nations. In fact, I'm MORE free in those countries b/c there has NEVER been a school shooting. Mass shootings are once every decade or two instead of every week or two. And guess what? People have guns! You can't have an AR-15, or bump-stocks, or high-capacity mags, but in New Zealand, hunting is hugely popular and half the population has a rifle.
@@InfoStrike since google had to translate, you don't have a constitutional like America that gives you freedom of speech, the right to keep and bear arms etc.... When you do, you can correct us.
This bit of foundational political theory becomes important in times of crisis and takes a back seat the rest of the time. Unfortunate that we seem to be inching towards the former category these days.
2 things: 1. Nearly no homes in America have stone walls. Most are drywall or plaster. So, ammo matters so you don't shoot your neighbor. 2. More importantly... Americans right to own guns was not rooted in hunting or self-defense. It was expressly written into our Constitution to be able to overthrow our government if it became tyrannical. THAT is why Americans have the express right to own guns. There is NO other reason why it is in our Constitution.
8:57 American interior walls are not made of brick generally. Our walls are wood studs covered with sheetrock or drywall which is a 1-2cm thick pressed gypsum sheet sandwiched with paper. It can be easily penetrated by nails so of course bullets too.
My father who drove for the Red Ball Express during the Second World War driving trucks with supplies from Normandy to Bavaria was wounded when a bullet went through the front fender into his cab through steel... He would switch the television channel and cuss if he saw a bullet on a television program bounce off a vehicle...
I grew up in Europe, so I understand the confusion. The superlight American-style construction of a typical wall - a couple of sheets of sheetrock held up by a few 2x4s is completely alien of there, where walls are either brick and mortar, or even reinforced concrete. Older wood homes would have very thick wood. But then that's why you can build a house in the US for a fifth of the cost in Western Europe.
@@richardhansen3225 Also: besides having a fire department, any common sensed citizen would feel and be safer, with a fire extinguisher at home...cause fire fighters may take a while to arrive...same with a gun ...
I have never had to use a firearm to defend my home, but I appreciate the peace of mind that comes with knowing I have the means to protect myself and my family if necessary. It's important to recognize that the reasons for owning firearms can vary depending on geographic location and individual circumstances. In some areas, there may be concerns about break-ins or theft, while in others, protection from wildlife such as bears or mountain lions may be a primary consideration.
Germany was featured in a good movie where citizens could not own guns and only the police and the government were allowed to have guns. It was called…… Schindlers List
Yeah, but the US does kill probably a million brown people a decade. So the ownership of firearms is neither here nor there. The Germans wanted to have a country like the US that had vast lands and agricultural properties. The big plan was to kill 30 million people in the general area of Poland and the Ukraine. They were reassured that this was something a civilized nation might do because the US got it's lands through the genocide of the Plains Indians. Or one could look at the French in Algeria. And of course Russia, and later China also racked up huge numbers. I don't know what the US numbers are, which is interesting in and of itself. But here is Clinton's Sec State talking about killing 500K children being "worth It". th-cam.com/video/KP1OAD9jSaI/w-d-xo.html Of course the killing didn't end there, it carried on, and there were equal numbers of adults. Stahl mentions that number is more the Hiroshima, yeah, at least 10X. Of course who knows what is required to maintain order in the world. I don't.
Texan here. We are a group that’s set on living as free as we can. We are armed to keep it that way. Part of our culture (Texan) is a general mistrust of government. Having said all that. We also understand that an armed society is most likely a polite society. 😅
@@MarkStoddard - Depends on the youth culture. In our neighborhood the youth are armed law abiding citizens who watch out for their families and neighborhoods and during the 2020 riots we didn't get a single Antifa/BLM thug looking for trouble because the moment they saw all of us standing with our AR/AK rifles they decided that they didn't want to "Protest" anywhere near us, meanwhile the urban areas in NY, Chicago, California and DC are filled with armed violent thugs that are protected by Democrat politicians like AOC, C-Waters, Pelosi and all the other leftist gun hating Democrats.
@@MarkStoddardThe urban youth were raised by the worst culture in this country, a course you have middle schoolers running around with switches on their glocks.
@@_Clayton.Bigsby_ it's just a fact You can think it's dumb or not. I agree an armedsociety is a polite one, doesn't change thr fact that higher per capita number is the higher the deaths from fun shot wounds per capita is. That includes suicides, the majority of Deaths and accidents, and why a gun in your house is many times more likely to kill a family member than an imtruder.
Dear Chris , I to am Chris and of German decent . I would like to get you to think. Being a pacifist isnt a thing. If you are incapable of violence then you have no choice due to inability . A truely good Man is capable of great violence . The only true virtue is being able to create damage and violence and choosing the peaceful path . What value is a man that cant , in time of need , use violent action to defend family and those who cant defend themselves. Pacifism is a pretty word for fragile and weak. My mother lived through WWII as an orphan in Germany . And I was raised to abhor violence and for first part of my life I became a weak coward and a bullied young man . I still abhor violence but the only way to stop someone determined to be violent against you is to be capable of meeting that head on and overcoming it .
@@willong1000 We are free to own and use firearms for self-defense. Chris is free to hide under his Mommy's bed, curl up in a ball and cry about all those scary-looking guns.
You miss the point that if you must expect every random guy to have the ability to unleash lethal force, it is way more likely that proactive lethal force in false and unneccessary self defense is being applied. So you have a devils spiral (as the Germans say) of growing force against growing force. Germans are clever enough to not initiate that process.
I’m 70 years old and I’ve been hunting, shooting and carrying a weapon for almost 50 years. Here at home I keep a 40 cal and a 9mm next to my bed and when I move the living room I take them with me. My parents lived behind me until they passed but they were gone to town one Saturday and a thug kicked in the door. My folks called me from town and I was at their house within minutes and came out of my car with my pistol in my hand. A neighbor came from across the street but the perp got away before we could get to the house. Here we have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. I’ve read that when Hitler came to power in Germany that one of the first things he did was confiscate the citizens weapons. People like him are the reason our nations founders felt so strongly about the right to keep and bear arms. Most of the men I know hunt deer, target shoot and enjoy shooting sports and a good many carry for self defense.
"I’ve read that when Hitler came to power in Germany that one of the first things he did was confiscate the citizens weapons." That statement, often repeated by those trying to equate the rise of Nazi tyranny with the establishment of any form of gun control, is factually wrong and intellectually dishonest, especially because when the Nazi's took over from the democratic Weimar Republic, EXISTING gun ownership rules were actually LOOSENED by the Nazis. While new laws DID systematically disarm so-called "unreliable" persons, especially Jews, restrictions for Nazi party members were relaxed. However populations in occupied territories were understandably not allowed to possess weapons. Your statement's origins come from biased, flawed and incomplete historical analysis with the intent to suggest that the Holocaust might have been lessened had the Jews been armed, not that the population as a whole could have risen up and resisted. Remember the Nazi's were ELECTED. With Jews comprising at best only 1% of the population, even had they been armed, expecting successful resistance or insurrection from such a small population is unrealistic and intellectually dishonest.
I would say that you have a human right endowed by our creator, whoever that might be. The constitution just tells our government that they can't take that away from us.
Sorry for TLDR. Was anyone home in that house? If not, you were lucky the perp got away, and I am just basing this off how it is written, so If my interpretation of the situation was wrong, then my apologies. I am not really replying directly, but just sort of using this to help do a bit of edumacation. I've taught firearms and firearms safety for 25 years now, both civilian and DOJ. The biggest misconception I come across is WHEN you can use a firearm. A GREAT place for quick overviews on the legal side are from Ayoob at Wilson Combat. Anyways, you can only use lethal force when you are in imminent threat of being killed or receiving grievous bodily injury, and that includes brandishing. The castle law assumes that anyone breaking into your home with you inside of it has life threatening intentions towards you. Now the big issues, you can NOT protect property with lethal force (depending on state laws, TX allows it for some felonies, in certain areas, mostly farms) An empty house with a perp inside is not a immediate threat to your life, and unfortunately, should you have entered and shot the guy, you'd be facing charges, especially if he wasn't armed. If your parents were home, with the perp inside, different story, IF you are in a castle state. SO yeah, that means If a guy is carrying your stuff out the front door as you arrive home, you can't use a firearm or other forms of lethal force, you gotta break out the fisticuffs to defend your stuff from being taken. Seems not fair when the criminals don't follow the rules, but that is what makes them criminals.
I'll add the satisfaction of seeing steel shake a full second (or two if you're good) before hearing the ping. Slapping steel at a distance should be experienced by anyone who wants to safely
It's so bad what's happened to England. They import invaders, and when the invaders take over, the police do nothing and the English citizens are powerless.
An armed society is a polite society. Imagine living someplace where you know for a fact that every adult you meet has a gun on them. Road rage, muggings, or simply getting into an fight is probably something to be avoided when you know that your victim - or anyone who sees what you are doing - has the right and the ability to put holes in you.
When he says "I have been doing a lot of work with the Kriss Vector," he means he has taken the weapon to the shooting range and has been practicing with it over and over to develop competence. A Mossberg 500 either 12 or 20 gauge is a good choice for home defense. Practice matters.
Wrong shotguns are overrated as if the home invader has someone in their arms the spread will hit the victim and the home invader and especially if it's pump action as it takes more time to get a shot off when a AR-15 is more practical even a pistol at that point.
Those outside the US who hear about "gun violence" need to realize that the vast majority occur in the highly-regulated, Democrat run cities. Most of us in rural "middle America" own multiple guns and live in very peaceful neighborhoods.
And the places these happen are usually in places with the harshest hun control we’re only criminals have them. Automatics are illegal yet Chicago and Detroit neighborhoods are full of guys running around blasting people with glocks with switches they got from wish.
Yeah, middle America is peaceful. On the other hand, big cities are always more violent, and so are guns helping there? They might. Maybe some day we will try. The reality is one can't compare different countries with different circumstances, the US is unique, and a package of attributes.
Left-leaning American democrat here and I actually agree. The facts don't lie. The problem with gun regulation in the US is that it is too little too late. Regulating guns in the US is like prohibition in the early 20th century, you just push the sales and distribution underground which actually makes it even more of a problem. Places in the world where gun regulation actually works in keeping the peace weren't already littered with guns so it had a real possibility to eliminating the issue before it really started. The US is far too deep into guns that any attempts to limit gun sales is like trying to patch up a ruptured dam after the valley behind it is already flooded. I don't necessarily oppose background checks prior to sales, but I also don't believe that will even come close to solving the problem. And before anybody says anything, I am a proud gun owner and grew up in a family of Army and Navy vets who loved guns so I am very familiar, and even appreciate American gun culture.
I was born, raised, and still live in the southern US. So far, nobody has been dumb enough to try and break onto my property. Probably because of the multiple signs we have posted reading "intruders will be allowed 1 warning shot. After that, pray."
The vast majority of Americans will never have to use their gun on another person in their entire life. But I can guarantee you, the ones that do, aren't thinking back afterwards and going "man, I wish I didn't have a gun back then" lol
What if it gets used on someone other than a "home invader," either accidentally or deliberately? Because that scenario is a couple of orders of magnitude more likely than "home defense."
@@elizabethhenning778 If you leave a fire extinguisher in the middle of the living room would your family screw with it or would've you taught them its not a toy? Everyone under my roof knows how to safely handle & operate a firearm. Hell, my kids comment on movies when actors don't press check or clear the firearm when handing it to someone else. On average, there are 526 unintentional deaths and another 43,729 unintentional injuries due to firearms each year. There are 3,000,000 uses of firearms for self-defense annually.
The FBI estimates that firearms are used in self defense between 1 and 5 million times every year (normally just showing the weapon scares off the attacker). I have two good friends who, in separate instances, had to brandish a gun to stop attackers. One in a parking deck. The other was an attempted highway robbery.
@@cdesez358Car pulled alongside his, pacing him. Passenger pointed a gun at him and motioned for him to pull over. He pulled out his own firearm and they sped off. Funny enough for you??
@@WarriorPoet01 buddy of mine had that happen to him in memphis tn on the highway...lets just say the carjackers went away in a wooden box. guess they thought flashing a gun was gonna make them less likely to get shot.
Chris, most walls in American houses are generally made with sheet rock / drywall that's 3/8th to 3/4" thick. Most bullets will penetrate both sides and more.
Oh, i get it. In America we have trees, lots of them. We use them, instead of rocks, to build homes. Interior walls are also thinner than walls on the outside.
In the U.S. 8 out of 10 home invasions are considered 'cold' invasions, meaning that nobody is home at the time of the invasions. In Europe 8 out of 10 home invasions are considered 'hoot' invasions, meaning someone is home at the time of the invasion. Top reasoning for invaders to go into homes when people are away? Fear that the owner has a weapon.
I remember seeing an interview that spoke to this years ago. I forgot who was doing the interview but they were interviewing people in jail for burglary and other crimes. One of them was said they only broke into houses if they were confident no one was there because the worse that can happen was the cops showing up. He said, "I don't fear the cops, they generally wont shoot you, just arrest you. It's a homeowner I'm scared of, beause he will kill me."
@josephburleton9758 Germany has criminals too. But they don't have gun violence because they don't have guns in their country. Guns are just force multipliers, like conservatives have said all along. That's why they have no place in a civil society
My mother in law from Ukraine once said "OH! I could never own a gun". My answer was, "you do not need to own a gun to be protected by guns. As a thief is driving down the street deciding what house to rob...he has no idea who has a gun and who does not". Your neighbor owning a gun is also protecting you. Home invasions while the owners are at home almost never happen...except in gun regulated states
👍👍 Incidentally, my wife was born in Ukraine during the Soviet Union. She is now a naturalized US citizen and LOVES shooting and guns. She has her own collection of rifles, shotguns and handguns.
Here in Arizona, most gun crimes are gang related as we have, for a long time, had constitutional carry, and criminals generally don't want to go after one who is likely to be armed. Fun note: while proof reading I saw I wrote (hopefully due to auto correct) "fun crimes" rather than "gun crimes." For legal reasons after this, I do not endorse the commiting of crimes, fun or otherwise.
Growing up in a subdivision, my wife's home got broken into several times while they were there. She was so used to hiding in the closet with the police on the phone. Her dad was anti gun. When he found out that I owned guns, he got angry with me. Asking me why did I own guns? There was no crime out where I live. Well, a former classmate of my brother, Christopher "Scott" Kilgore stole his dad's guns. Later on he shot dead his brother, his brother's friend, and tried to murder his dad just five minutes away from where I live. Manhunt went on for four days. Cops came by and told us to lock our doors and pray that Christopher Scott Kilgore did not break into our house and murder us. That is when my wife saw me load up all the guns that I had. She finally realized that we had a fighting chance against an intruder. Reading the police report that a local news station put on Scribd (sic), Kilgore was holding up a gas station when an unarmed man tried to attack him. Kilgore raised his gun at the guy, and told him to go to the restroom, and if he did not, Kilgore would shoot him dead. It was an armed homeowner whom forced Kilgore to flee on foot, narrowing the search radius. When the homeowner confronted KIlgore, it was dark out, but he said he saw the shotgun in Kilgore's hand as he fled into the woods. Cops found Kilgore hiding in a boat in someone's yard close by and shot him dead. The last report said that nobody posed a threat to Kilgore, that he intentionally shot and murdered innocent people in cold blood with no one armed to shoot back.
I was even the intended victim of an attempted armed carjacking in the middle of the day. I had my infant son with me in the car while waiting for my wife in the public library. I noticed the guy trying to avoid my mirrors. I had my handgun pointed at him once he made it to the driver side door with his own pistol. Scared him off without a single shot having to be fired. It made me wonder, why did this guy do this at a public library, in the middle of the day, where we were supposed to feel safe? Then it hit me, the public library itself is a gun free zone. The guy must of thought, no guns allowed in the building, therefore no guns in the parking lot, easy pickings. When I was on a date with a woman, she told me about how when she was a kid in an apartment in New Jersey (gun control state) when her mom demanded that she get underneath the bed and not make a sound as the apartment door was being bashed in. Two guys raped her mom. Then one shot her dead. She remembered hearing the other guy say, "Man, what did you do that for?!" before they took off. She asked me what I thought about that. Apparently saying, "Your mom should of had a gun," was not the answer she wanted to hear. She wanted more gun control despite these criminals not obeying gun control laws.
Sounds a bit high to me. As someone who has and occasionally still does carry, both concealed and open (Usually concealed) Firearms (especially concealed) are just not comfortable to carry, particularly in hot weather. I have yet to find a harness that can both breath well and hold a weapon securely and discreetly. It's a big part of the reason when I chose to not carry. Sometimes it is just more of a PITA than it's worse. (Of course Murphy's law dictates that the one time I ever need it would be on the day that I wasn't carrying but that is just another thing you have to think about when choosing to carry or not.) I carry myself and encourage all who are legally able to and are willing to train to a moderate proficiency should at least consider their carry options. However for simple practical reasons (some good, some not so good) I seriously doubt that many carry daily.
@@Snipergoat1Honestly the biggest pain is finding clothes that are appealing as well as finding a place to holster my 43x. Most of the time I'm okay because I just wear leggings. It just sucks trying to conceal in the summer like you mentioned.
@contumelious-8440 to be fair, they use montana as a gateway to Canada. They run the I-15 the whole way up. It's also an artery for meth, primarily to the oil fields and the reservations, which are difficult to police because of their remote locations and unique policing rules. We aren't the market, we're a distribution hub.
@@contumelious-8440 - Cartels are also running around New Mexico and southern Texas from what I heard. Good to see that our Democrat politicians are not racist enough to kick Mexican Cartels out of our country in fear of being labeled racist, good job Democrats, RIP American citizens........
I live in Georgia and I’ve met Eric a couple of times. He’s extremely down to earth and friendly. Even though he has a huge following on TH-cam he still takes the time to talk to people if you run into him at a gun show or something.
It's so cool to see a perspective from someone who does not have the same access to guns as us Americans. As a gun owner and instructor myself it was very insightful and may help me when introducing firearms to new people in the future.
The first rule of gunfighting is to have a gun. Any gun is better than no gun but yes, there are different guns for different scenarios. When you grow up around guns one tends to never think about them, but I guess it would be strange to someone from a country where guns are not allowed.
About 15 years ago I made friends with a fellow university student, a german guy. I brought him out to visit my family out in the country, we visited a local gun range and shot a few of our guns. At the end I asked him which one would he like to have if he could choose one. He said "none of them!" Viel Gluck with what you're doing in germany, we'll be keeping our weapons over here tyvm.
in case no one has explained, in the us the walls are made with a wooden frame with 1/2 inch thick panels nailed or screwed on each side. if you swing a hammer it will break through drywall. if someone is angry enough they can even punch a hole with their fist. think of the panels as cardboard, with chaulk inside.
Oh there was a fight alright. It was called World War 2, maybe you heard of it? The victors wrote the rules for the defeated, and that's why guns are banned in Germany and Japan.
@@shag139 Settled land for thousands of years. We killed all our wolves in Britain before America was even discovered. I'm just saying, in the specific case of Germany, those laws date to the late '40s.
I really appreciate your honest reaction, but being open to learning more. I can't say that I go to bed at night frightened that someone will break in, home invasions are very rare where I live. However, it only needs to happen once. I keep a handgun with a lot of stopping power next to the bed, just in case. I have a smaller handgun that I carry when away from the house. And I have one that's between those two when I'm mowing, cutting firewood, etc. We have bobcats, coyotes, wild dogs and the occasional rattlesnake in the area. Even smaller animals like raccoons can be extremely dangerous, especially if that animal has rabies. It's better to have a thing and not need it than to need a thing and not have it. ;)
Hi Chirs, I lived in both American and Germany. There is a huge difference between US home construction and German home construction. In Germany, walls are generally brick and solid. In the US, they are what we call stud walls. So, wood 2x4 studs 16-inches on center and then just drywall (gypsum) between them. Maybe with some insulation, but even tough our walls are 5 or 7 inches thick, there is only 1 inch of actual material and it is like chalk, so not very hard and easy to shoot through.
I live in Texas so to legally buy a gun I must have a Valid ID with my current address and at the Firearm dealer I must pass a background check at the time of purchase. This usually only takes 20-30 minutes. There are restrictions on the type of firearm I am able to purchase as was mentioned in the video.
Same with every state, New Jersey, notwithstanding. In a few states eg Illinois you have to have a goat license to have a firearm. Which is Blatantly unconstitutional by the way.
@@PeskyCitizenTX incorrect in texas along with a few other states, a ltc takes the place of a nics check, just like showing law enforcement credentials takes the place of a nics check. since i got my ltc, after i fill out the 4473, all that is left is running my credit card and printing my receipt. the 4473 has a box where the dealer fills in the alternative to the nics check, there are several alternatives, owning an nfa weapon is also one as i recall, the background check for that is 100 times more thorough than a nics check.
Most homes in America are framed with wood 2x4’s every 16 inches and have 1/2” thick sheets of drywall on each side for interior walls. The space between the 2x4’s are hollow. Exterior walls vary on thickness and material depending on location. Either way, most ammunition will easily penetrate walls. Every gun owner hopes to never have to use their weapon in self defense. It’s less about how often you need it, and more about having it IF you ever need it. When he said he’d been working with that weapon it just means he was training with it.
Hallo Chris, I’m from Austria living in the US for over 30 years. We live in a gated community and most of us are well armed and responsible gun owners. We frequently go to range shooting our ARs and pistols and having a great time. Viele Grüße, Herbert.
@@BillRobinson1805 Yes, they had "common sense" firearms laws in 1933 as well, requiring people to apply for a "permit" to own a firearm. Which, of course, all Jews were denied and I think we all know what happened shortly thereafter.
In America, mostly in the South, the walls are made of what is called 'dry wall'. Dry wall is essentially plaster covered in thick paper, and about 3/4" thick. In Europe ( I've been there ) the homes are of much better quality construction apparently made to last a long time.
It's always interesting seeing a European react to US gun videos, it's easy to forget just how different we are in terms of gun ownership. It's also nice that you're super chill about it-I've seen more than a few folks just about freak out any any talk of guns.
I'm a US citizen and have a concealed carry license. I've never had anyone break into my home while I was there but I carry more for protection against animals. In the mountains where I worked for years the animals sometimes entered homes or garages and could be quite a surprise.
In most of America, one doesn't technically "need" a gun for the worry you are expressing. We don't generally fear someone breaking in and killing us. Of course, if you live in a bad area, your mileage may vary. HOWEVER, even though I am a liberal democrat who favors more stringent gun laws to prevent crime, I understand and support our 2nd Amendment even though I personally don't own a gun. It is the 2nd Amendment which drives our desire to own guns, not the fear of someone breaking in. The rationale behind the 2nd Amendment is that the people's right to defend themselves against potential authoritarian rule should never be abridged. You only need to look to Russia to see how their rights and freedoms have been stripped away legally by their government to see how easily it can happen anywhere. So even though I don't like guns, I recognize the importance of the 2nd Amendment.
At a philosophical level. You think that not having firearms will make you safer? How do you address the basic problems like "criminals don't obey the law, why would they obey gun laws?" or "Given that there is a good chance that should you be a crime victim the criminal will use a firearm. Do you really think not having the option to respond likewise will really keep you more safe?" Also I don't know your gender, physique, background or anything else about you but even if you are someone who can reasonably expect to be able to take on someone who wishes to do you harm in a hand to hand fight, most potential victims will not be. (After all few predators are going to attack someone who looks like they could squash them.) What go you recommend (other than situational awareness, always the best defense) for your average 120 lb woman who is not going to be a physical match for almost any aggressor, likewise a disabled or elderly person. They need force multipliers and a firearm is hands down the best thing there is for that. That is a philosophical difference I suppose. Still mad respect to you for recognizing that there is another and even more important facet to having an armed citizenry.
@@Snipergoat1as a gun owner and nra member, I thought his comment was written with respect, and while I don’t completely agree with everything he said, he does have the right to his opinion, and I respect him for how he stated his opinion.
I mostly agree, though I do appreciate being armed for home defense. I suppose that is because my husband frequently travels for work, and when I am alone there with our children, it is a fear. Not because we live in a bad area, but in rural area without quick response time. But then again, if people came in armed when my husband was here, I would still want defense because although he's stronger, what could anyone do? Break ins can happen anywhere. Hunting cabins in the middle of nowhere can be a target. And drug problems and desperate people are everywhere, including rural areas and small towns.
"Wait, it goes through the wall? How does it go through the wall, walls are very solid?" I've lived in Germany and seen the archetecture out there. Here in the US, our walls are only about 14cm thick tops not the thick walls like Germany.
I love this guy now. He does not simply show arrogance, he shows curiousity, sonething hardly anybody has these days. As someone that is not from united states. I myself, own a Zastava Arms M70. i recently moved to the USA from bulgaria. I was born in Azerbaijan and grew up there.
People say the whole “when seconds count politics are minutes away” as a sort of meme but it’s way way more true then most realize…America is BIG and while we have a lot of very good people at helping during emergencies the idea that the government can’t or won’t get to you to help you in time is one that has over and over and over again been shown to be legitimate… from animal attacks in the backwoods to shoots in cities to looting seen after hurricanes and natural disasters, people deserve to be able to take responsibility for themselves and their loved ones if that happens. Especially if the government refuses to
12:57 the walls on most American houses are hallow. They are wooden framed walls with drywall attached to the frames to make a wall. So most gun rounds will go through a couple of walls before they stop.
It's hard to make people understand that for the vast majority of Americans, you will never even hear a gunshot outside. It's very specific areas of places made up of very specific demographics where the stereotypes come from. The much publicized shootings are statistically not a thing you will encounter in the vast nation. Country where hunting happens, yes you will hear people target shooting occasionally. Most people who buy home defense weapons will lock them in a closet and not see them again for years.
@@kramermccabe8601not true at all. The people who live normal lives are the targets. They work and have money. A lot of them don’t have guns so they are really a target.
@@kramermccabe8601gangs are the aggressors. They are mostly a city problem. People in the rural areas are the ones that get targeted for multiple reasons. We need to protect our homes as the police could be an hour or more away. “Defund the Police” movement really hurt a lot of urban areas.
Yes, in the US, we have human predators and animal predators to worry about. Even in the more densely populated areas in the northeast have wild life that could be a threat. We also hunt for our own meat around the country and that makes us vulnerable to other predators that may cross our path.
In America our houses are made of wood the walls are just 2x4 wood frame will dry wall on each side of the wall. High velocity ammo or any ball ammo will go straight through. To other rooms.
You asked, “What work do you do with a gun?”… besides law enforcement and armed security guards and federal agents there are many people who defend their animals with guns from predators. We have them in all sizes, minks, weasels, bobcats, foxes,cats, dogs, cougars, badgers, coyotes, wolves, black and grizzly bears. Some people do go to work with a gun on them, and no badge…..Hope that helps….
It really depends where I am in the home. I have guns (mostly pistols) hidden away around the house, so that I have one handy if sh*t happens. But two of them are a 9mm carbine, and a bullpup 5.56 (same as the AR15, but much shorter and easier to use in close quarters). Hunting rifles and other guns are in a gun safe. Some people say that they should all be in the safe, but do you really want to be spending a whole minute or so fiddling with a safe when someone is trying to break down your door? Yes, that happened to me. I had about 10-15 seconds to react, and fortunately I had a 45 on hand and they fled when they got through the door and were looking down the barrel.
personally, I've found the Scorpion Evo 9mm version would be unbelievably effective, small, lightweight have an eotech holo, surefire pressure pad light and suppressor so target acquisition and identification are amazing plus the report is quieter than bullet impact. plus 9mm isnt gonna zip through a few walls like 5.56 from a 16in barrel
i dont think thats necessarily true, the ar-15 doesn't really excel in the home environment as much as many other firearms. The media just like to use the term "ar-15 style rifle" because people have been trained to fear that gun.
Your "descendants?" So your children used to live in Germany? I'm trying to guess why they don’t anymore. Maybe spend more time reading than dreaming about killing a human for trying to steal your $200 tv.
Yes, both I and a friend chased of intruders. Mine when 911 kept passing me back and forth between two towns’ dispatchers. My friend heard some test his door poked his head outside heard another door being checked, racked a load with his shotgun and heard someone take off through some hedges and jump in a car and take off.
I'm 22 and I'm a lefty. I have owned about 5 guns since turning 18. Currently have 2. If you handle them frequently and learn them as tools, they become a lot less scary. There are only 4 major rules of gun safety and they're not hard to follow. Edit: oh yeah, and our walls are basically paper machet. It honestly was hilarious to me that a German whose used to nice brick walls being like "IT GOES THROUGH THE WALL??HOW??"😭😭😭
walls: you're probably used to plaster construction. That will stop.... many firearms, but not all. In the US we have drywall, which a regular person can punch through with their fist and most firearms will blow through like klexnex.
When I worked night shift my apartment was burglarized several times until I finally moved into a apartment complex that had a security guard and fence... Burglars can figure out who is at home and who isn't...
"How can it go through a wall?" Like a knife through hot butter, that's how. When he's talking about "the right gun with the right ammo" he means making sure you don't hit someone in an adjoining room, or your neighbors.
Most exterior walls are just 5mm plywood with thin plastic or wooden siding..Almost any firearm will go right through it..p.s. and yeah..any gun is better than none..
Every place I've ever lived the exterior walls are brick or block. Interior walls are drywall over wood, but exterior walls are usually solid, unless you live in a mobile home or something.
@@VME-Brad Depends on what part of the country you're from. If you're on the West Coast and some of the warmer places, there's a lot of drywalls that you practically could kick a hole through your wall. Are you in the east coast or mid-west? Because I haven't seen a brick house since I left the Midwest as the teen.
Also in the US according to studies house thieves stake out and observe targets for 3-4 times longer than their European counterparts. This is because they don't want to deal with an armed homeowners. Because of this in the US if someone breaks in while someone is home and doesnt IMMEDIATELY leave when they realize someone ia there it can be assumed it is a home invasion and they are after the occupants and are not burglers
9:09 most American houses don’t have hard concrete walls. Instead they have drywall which is essentially just paper some random powder in between it and then more paper and on the outside thin wood covered by thin plastic.
@@eq1373 When attributing a quote, the burden should be on the person offering the quote to cite to a primary or at least contemporary source. I am not aware of either existing. If you have one, I'd love to be wrong.
The plaster in the house I lived in while in Germany was as hard as cement. Same as a house that I lived in a 1950's built Illinois house. For penetration purposes, drywall is more like several layers of cardboard. Most drywall is 1/2'-5/8' thick.
Dry wall is nothing like plaster. Plaster is hard as f**k. We got plaster walls at my old hotel and it takes forever and a half to drill holes through that stuff.
@@Princess_Celestia_ They're literally the same thing, both are gypsum plaster, the only difference that drywall is precast in a factory and shipped as boards, while plaster is applied on site.
My husband and I carry a side arm daily. They are both personal protection firearm and home defense firearms. Interior walls in American homes are usually just two layers of drywall with 2"x4" wooden studs every 16". Exterior walls are usually drywall, studs, insulation (either a foamboard type or fiberglass and tyvek) and brick/wood/metal/concrete/a material made of concrete and other materials that I can't remember the name of. "Work" for a firearm could be hunting, wildlife predator control in mostly rural areas (we have bears, bobcats, and mountain lions where I live), and livestock protection from foxes and feral dogs.
I have had 2 occasions where I had to defend my home from 'uninvited guests '...thankfully, both times I was armed, and said 'guests' did not succeed in whatever they thought they were going to do. Also thankfully I never had to fire a shot, my mere presence with my firearm dissuaded them from any further unsavory activity.
In Germany, maybe you guys have stone homes but in the United States we have half inch thick drywall. On our interior walls we have a half inch thick drywall on each side of a stud. So a total of 1 inch of drywall from room to room. The only exception is the outside walls that separate the interior from the outdoors. They’re still half inch on each side, but there’s insulation in between. It’s not hard for a handgun round to go through several layers or more of drywall.
Burglary is a BIG part of FBI crime statistics. Home Invasions are where several burglars break-in, KNOWING you are home, and not caring if they have to hurt you to rob you. And frankly, your other question, well, the BEST gun to use is the one you are familiar with, have used and trained on, and are most proficient with.
Home invasions (any robbery where the resident is present) are exceedingly rare. We had an extremely drunk woman wander into our home one day. She used to live a few houses away but had moved away at least a year before. Apparently, she checked herself out of rehab, got falling down drunk and the walked to where she used to live. For some reason, she walked into our house, one of two on the block that look nothing like her old home. But we quickly identified she wasn't a threat. We called the police and they helped her get somewhere safe. That said, understand that the laws in most US states not only authorize deadly force to someone who illegally enters your home, you don't even have to prove that your use of force was necessary. There is a legal presumption that the person was a threat and that force is justified.
HOWEVER, THEY DO HAPPEN! Like the one that happened to my Dad some years back. I warned him about keeping the doors locked and NOT answering a knock after midnight BUT he was raise in the country at a time when EVERYBODY kept their doors unlocked and at 60 + he still fancied himself able to take care of himself. UNTIL one night! He opened the front door to a knock at 11 PM and before he could do ANYTHING two young guys pushed their way in! Fortunately they were looking for some other guy, and realized they were in the wrong house and made a quick exit. HOWEVER dad DID KEEP THE DOORS SHUT AND LOCKED FROM THEN ON!!!!!!
"A legal presumption that the force was justified"? Source? That is absolutely not the case in most places. Most states don't have a "Castle Law". Florida, Arkansas, Kansas, sure. But even then, a local DA in Miami, Little Rock, or Kansas City can absolutely pursue charges anyway, because Castle Doctrine still includes the caveat "reasonable force". There are plenty of people in prison for shooting home invaders.
@@CetomimusGillii I admit that I haven't done a recent count and analysis of each states laws. But if you look at states with some version of a "Stand your Ground" law, there are roughly 25-30 states. www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-law-basics/states-that-have-stand-your-ground-laws.html If you add in "Castle Doctrine" laws, it is roughly the same number of states. From the National Conference of State Legislatures: "Laws in at least 28 states and Puerto Rico allow that there is no duty to retreat an attacker in any place in which one is lawfully present. (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia Wyoming.) " and "Self-defense laws in at least 23 states (Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee West Virginia and Wisconsin) provide civil immunity under certain self- defense circumstances." www.ncsl.org/civil-and-criminal-justice/self-defense-and-stand-your-ground
@kcgunesq Ok, I left out Stand Your Ground states, but that doctrine is even further from resembling "legal presumption that the force was justified". Perhaps you're thinking of Qualified Immunity for government officials, which includes law enforcement. Unlike civilians, they hardly ever face repercussions for shooting people
@@CetomimusGillii No. As noted above, many states actually prohibit prosecution unless the state can prove that the use of force was unjustified. The issue is who has to prove what. Presumption is not immunity. It is just a default, but can be overcome if warranted.
Hello Chris. I, myself, am a Veteran. USMC Enlisted Weapons Instructor, who served in Quantico, Virginia back in 1979-1980. This video is presented as fairly inexpensive 'home defense' weaponry that almost anyone can buy here in the US. The pair of shotguns are 'classic' weaponry. Fairly easy to use, and they can be loaded with 'buckshot' instead of a solid round. This allows the user to fire the weapon inside a home and not have the chance that a bullet will penetrate interior walls and harm someone else. An example: Shooting at a target inside your home with a solid shot (called a slug round). If you miss the target, the round would penetrate the wall or door behind them and continue on into the other room to hit something else before it ceases movement. If you were firing 'buckshot' instead and missed, it is unlikely that the buckshot would penetrate a wooden door, and if it did, the buckshot pellets would be drastically reduced in speed and fail to penetrate things behind the door or wall. The revolver shown is something that most would never need. It can fire shotgun shells and .45 caliber rounds of several types. Even a 410 shotgun shell, fired out of a revolver, is going to have a considerable recoil, and you would need a very strong grip as well as have to deal with the muzzle rise firing such ammunition. The folding stock weapon is something that I would think that veterans might use, since it mimics some of the weapons used in the military. The weapon, folded, is a 'bull pup' type of weapon. The barrel is quite short, and it has a fairly short recoil when fired. Folding out the stock is just making the weapon a bit longer and giving the shooter a way to firmly seat the weapon into one's shoulder for better accuracy when firing. This is NOT to say that the weapon needs the folding stock to work. It works fine as is. Especially for short-ranged 'combat', like shooting inside one's home. The fact that the bull pup weapon has a built in light and the sight, is not really all that important. You can get such sights and lights for any of the other weapons shown. Especially easily for the Glock pistol. Ah, now I've done it. I said Glock. You do not need to fall into the whole Glock-anti-Glock issue. Some like Glocks, some hate them. Personally, I prefer the Mossberg MC2C. Which is a Glock-like weapon made by the Mossberg corporation. But then again, I like having a small, portable, handgun available to me, should I need to use a firearm for protection. I also get special loads for the 9mm ammunition the MC2C uses. Standard rounds for target shooting at the range, and more lightly loaded rounds for 'home protection'. What I mean by 'lightly loaded' is that the gunpowder charge in each shell is less than 'normal'. Thus, safer to fire inside one's home, since the round will not penetrate very far if you miss the target. Now, about shooting through walls. The man in the video is distinctly describing the penetration of 'sheet rock' walls. Commonly called plasterboard walls. NOT exterior walls made of brick, stone thick concrete, etc. Myself, I own a Mossberg MC2C, two shotguns, and two rifles. And I am looking for more weapons that I can afford. It is sort of like eating cookies. You have one, then try another. The two sit in your belly and talk about inviting friends in for the party. Soon, you have eaten an entire package of cookies and wonder why you were so greedy. Another way to think of it is collecting your favorite fan item. Be it Pokemon cards, cars, toy cars, beanie babies, whatever. You get one, you find another you like, then a third, and eventually you have quite the collection. Believe it or not, such collecting behavior is 'normal' for humans. Finally. Remember the key issue. It is NOT the weapon that is dangerous. The weapon is a tool. The person behind it is the danger. Especially those that are only minimally trained, or totally untrained. Like driving a car, one needs training to use a weapon safely and effectively. And with weapons, frequent and repetitive training is best to ensure safety and accuracy. Take my advice and knowledge if you wish. Or not. That is YOUR choice.
Larger gauge buckshot DOES penetrate interior walls. You have to scale down below the aughts before you get pellets that two sheets of sheetrock can stop.
work with a gun means gunsmithing when he says penetrate most homes in the US are drywall and wood, apartments only between you and your neighbor is drywall, you want something that doesnt pentrate to the next apartment or house
Just saw your video Chris. Two days ago the local Police broadcast for everyone to stay in doors, lock windows etc as a man was shot and killed 5 blocks away from my Apartment. The shooter was loose in the neighborhood. I contacted several neighbors included a retired Police Officer and checked one of my weapons. Thankfully the badguy was arrested in an hour but most of the time violent crimes are not solved in that short time span. I let the Police handle however was ready to defend myself and my neighbors. Same as last year a escaped convict was on the loose for a week and broke into multiple homes. He was convicted of two murders but finally was caught. I grew up in the Germantown Section of Philadelphia which now is not so nice but my currently neighborhood is "safer" but as anywhere is not immune...🇩🇪...🇺🇸
This guy seems to often pick 'home defense guns' that have more to do with what he wants to sell or thinks are cool rather than what may be needed in the extremely rare occurrence of home defense. Also, my grandparents home was once robbed, but they were not at home and the robbers weren't armed, they were just rather dumb drug addicts.
in America most people don't have stone houses they are made of wood and the drywall inside walls are thin and can easily be shot through , love your channel and your openness to discuss and watch things with an open mind keep up the good work
Chris, you'll notice in videos about guns/firearms, bullets will be referred to by number of grains. That's the weight of the actual projectile that leaves the barrel. Basically, 16 grains equals 1 gram. So the .45 ACP (11.43mm) he mentions used by the Kriss Vector weighs 14.3g and travels around 259 metres per second. Funny enough, that's actually slow for a bullet. Basically, .45 ACP acts like a sledgehammer on its target. For comparison to another pistol calibre, 9mm Parabellum (aka Luger) typically weighs 8g and moves between 350 and 400 m/s. It's a very capable round and is used by militaries, police and civilians around the world. I'm sure you'll be interested to know that the new assault rifle and light machinegun (plus the current pistol) of the US Military takes advantage of German engineering. SIG Sauer designed and builds all three of those weapons. The rifle and machinegun are both chambered in the all-new 6.8x51mm cartridge. The rifle is also sold on the civilian market as the SIG MCX Spear.
I live in Midwest USA in a smaller town. I've never had a home intruder nor a burglar. Until very recently, I never locked the doors to my home. I wasn't even certain of where the key was located. I didn't care. I didn't worry about it. None of my friends or family have had an intruder or burglar. I don't know anyone who has shot anyone, except for soldiers. Defensive firing of a gun is actually very, very rare. One reason for that is rural people and small town tend to behave better. One reason for that is the knowledge among violent criminals that many of the homes have armed residents. That's a serious deterrent.
Americans who grew up with guns don't have just one. You have the guns you inherited from your father, and maybe HIS father's guns too. Then the more modern ones you wanted to buy. Most guys I know have maybe a dozen firearms on average.
@@zibbitybibbitybopIf you only circulate amongst anti-self defence anti-2A pansies..of course you won't run into people who own even a single firearm. It could also be that people, knowing your position, simply don't share with you that they possess them. 🤷
15:55 In the USA The FBI maintains extensive crime reporting tools. According to the FBI UCR (Uniform Crime Reporting Program) website, "In 2019, there were an estimated 1,117,696 burglaries, a decrease of 9.5 percent when compared with 2018 data. The number of burglaries decreased 29.6 percent when compared with 2015 data and was down 48.5 percent when compared with the 2010 estimate." "Burglaries of residential properties accounted for 62.8 percent of all burglary offenses." "By subcategory, 55.7 percent of burglaries involved forcible entry, 37.8 percent were unlawful entries, and 6.5 percent were attempted forcible entry."
I love your genuine and honest curiosity. I've been a gun owner for over 30 years. Here in America guns are a part of our culture and guns just like people come in all shapes, sizes and capabilities. Bullets can penetrate thru many different objects and depending both on the object as an example drywall (just layered chalk paper) understanding the type of ammunition you're using is a key factor. I've carried firearms primarily for work and self defense, but I thoroughly enjoy just spending some time at the shooting range for quiet meditation.
It's funny to see a German appreciate the shot gun. During ww1 Germany protested the shot gun as a inhumane weapon. But it was good for Americans to clear a trench out fast. Because the shot spreads.
The Criss Vector is an SBR - short barreled rifle, which requires you to register the gun with the ATF and pay for a tax stamp, thanks to the NFA or National Firearms Act, which is constitutionally questionable but has never been successfully challenged in court. The NFA also requires the registration of all suppressors.
My husband has many guns, including shotguns, I have a big black dog that you can't see at night until it's too late, so if someone comes through my window at night they have a big surprise waiting for them! My husband is a hunter. He is also an Air Force Veteran!
@@mhrcracing Guns don't hurt people, people hurt people, it would do no good to ban guns, besides then the only people that have them would be criminals, so no thank you on the gun banning!
Chris in the US people use guns in defensive situations between 250,000 to 3,000,000 times a year thats inside and out in the streets of themselves or others. Not all mean some were shot it means sometimes a person may have just brandished the weapon. No grounded gun owner ever wants to have to use their gun, but we always want to be well trained and prepared to use them safely. Nothing says you must own a gun but if you chose to just for defending your home these are his picks also, this video is 10 years old find some that are no older than 5 years old. You can buy a flashlight, aka gun light or a laser pointer for all of the other guns except for the Smith & Wesson Governor and all perfectly legal. Yes, bullets can penetrate a home's walls. The only walls you can't shoot through with a single shot are stone or concrete.
"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." - Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776
Southern people say "Some work with..." means he's shot it a lot. Different types of shooting and ammo. In the north it would normally mean he did security or something with the gun. But not always.
It's not a Southern/Northern thing. It's a Gun Culture thing. He means training with it, practicing with it, and running drills with it. There are lot of videos showing handgun drills, carbine drills, etc to show you what I mean.
@JohnDoe-fu6zt you're probably right. I'm from MN and I've been involved in gun culture my whole life, but never heard the expression till about 10 years ago. Heard it a lot from southerners. So I naturally assumed it was a southerner thing. Because MN is weird af lol
@colddarkmatter1731 Frankly, it's a bit of "cool guy" talk, like saying "I run a Geissele trigger," or "I run a Wilson Combat grip module on my EDC." The really cool guys don't use accessories, they RUN them.
Lol as a gun owner this dude is cracked, no one is buying the Kriss Vector for home defense, it's a $1500+ gun. It's also difficult to obtain depending on where you live in the states. Compared to a handgun which I've seen going for $200 and less.
@@omok2 Eh, more like mid ranged. $1500 is mid-upper mid prices, with the more gucci guns in the 2K+ range. Granted you can get Budget AR's for $5-600 if you're frugal but you can also find Kriss' for like 12-1400 often enough on the used market that you can get good deals too, plus they were also a bit cheaper back when the video was made like 10 years ago and were a similar price to the used market
US homes aren't typically made of stone, but wood, plywood and drywall, also there are various jacketed rounds of high caliber that could easily penetrate a stone home. Most home defense/self defense gun owners carry hollow point rounds because the quick expansion stops it from going through objects without dumping energy. You dont use full metal jacket rounds because they may go clean through your target, the wall, and down the street which isnt good for anyone.
The ‘work with guns’ that he’s talking about is anything from shooting, doing drills, training of some sorts, also to include taking it apart and making fixes or upgrades and playing around with different attachments etc.
![[UNCUT] “บอสณวัฒน์” ลากไส้!! ใครหนุนหลัง "แม่ตั๊ก ป๋าเบียร์" I คนดังนั่งเคลียร์ I 30 ก.ย. 67](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/QlD7mU2KKRk/mqdefault.jpg)
Home invasions, and violence in general is a lot less in the US than most realize. For many people in the US owning a firearm for self/ home defense is the same as owning a fire extinguisher, smoke detector, or having a spare tire for your car, or keeping blankets in your car during winter if you live up north. It is not that most of us are worried or scared, rather it’s just a tool to have Incase something goes wrong. I have never had to use one in defense, though there’s been a couple of close calls over the years
Well said! Only experienced one home invasion in my life. I was in middle school and we suspected our lowlife neighbor was looking for something to steal. It was early morning on a holiday so everyone was still in bed. Mom heard footsteps and assumed it was me. Later in the day she noticed the back door lock had been forced open. Nobody was harmed.
Same thing I came here to say. I have a fire extinguisher, in my house and my car. Have never used one in either. Never had my smoke alarm go off due to an actual fire. Better to have and not need it, than to need it and not have it.
@@sgtm7 its bad business to have invaders coming in your home and all u have is a golf club to save your life
Lol "tool" 😂
@@rods6741And you didn't need a gun for that, did you?
"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787
Chris: "It's crazy that you can buy these kinds of guns in America!"
Us: "No, it's evil that YOUR government won't allow YOU to own firearms."
You think we're the only ones who are so star-spangled awesome that we're the only ones who have freedom? Over the last dozen years I've lived in two countries outside the US--both with heavy gun restrictions and both free, First-World Western nations. In fact, I'm MORE free in those countries b/c there has NEVER been a school shooting. Mass shootings are once every decade or two instead of every week or two. And guess what? People have guns! You can't have an AR-15, or bump-stocks, or high-capacity mags, but in New Zealand, hunting is hugely popular and half the population has a rifle.
@@InfoStrike since google had to translate, you don't have a constitutional like America that gives you freedom of speech, the right to keep and bear arms etc.... When you do, you can correct us.
No one's trying to enslave you, bro. Stop watching media telling you otherwise.
That’s exactly what socialism is policies to make ppl feel better over liberty like all the people leaving California
In the US the theory is that the people have inherent rights INDEPENDENT of the government. And the government exists with our approval
That approval is pretty low atm...
@@johnl5316 💯
@dbelow_1556 same with me but I didn't vote any of the stuff in either
Citizens give approval to the government
Slaves get approval from the government
This bit of foundational political theory becomes important in times of crisis and takes a back seat the rest of the time. Unfortunate that we seem to be inching towards the former category these days.
2 things:
1. Nearly no homes in America have stone walls.
Most are drywall or plaster. So, ammo matters so you don't shoot your neighbor.
2. More importantly... Americans right to own guns was not rooted in hunting or self-defense. It was expressly written into our Constitution to be able to overthrow our government if it became tyrannical. THAT is why Americans have the express right to own guns. There is NO other reason why it is in our Constitution.
Amen brother 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Much more stone houses in the northeast but for the most part they're all wood and drywall.
Preeeaaach!✌️❤️
Partially for self defence but thats included in overthrowing a tyrannical government
" unless you are able to do violence, you are not a pacifist, if you can not do any violence, you are not a pacifist , you are just harmless"....
Wow...This.
8:57 American interior walls are not made of brick generally. Our walls are wood studs covered with sheetrock or drywall which is a 1-2cm thick pressed gypsum sheet sandwiched with paper. It can be easily penetrated by nails so of course bullets too.
Think a mixture of cardboard and chalk.
Also not hard to just punch threw and not hurt your hand to much pending the thickness and quality. Just hope you don't punch where the studs are lol.
My father who drove for the Red Ball Express during the Second World War driving trucks with supplies from Normandy to Bavaria was wounded when a bullet went through the front fender into his cab through steel... He would switch the television channel and cuss if he saw a bullet on a television program bounce off a vehicle...
@@ronclark9724and the fender and floorboard of that truck were infinitely more "bulletproof" than today's tinfoil and plastic vehicles.
I grew up in Europe, so I understand the confusion. The superlight American-style construction of a typical wall - a couple of sheets of sheetrock held up by a few 2x4s is completely alien of there, where walls are either brick and mortar, or even reinforced concrete. Older wood homes would have very thick wood. But then that's why you can build a house in the US for a fifth of the cost in Western Europe.
Guns for home defense is like home insurance for fires. You dont expect your house to burn down but you want to be covered in case it happens anyway
Si vis pacem, parabellum.
Exactly!
@@ConservativeGrouch ?
@@richardhansen3225 Also: besides having a fire department, any common sensed citizen would feel and be safer, with a fire extinguisher at home...cause fire fighters may take a while to arrive...same with a gun ...
@@BigJohnson6"if you want peace, prepare for war."- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus/Vegetis
I have never had to use a firearm to defend my home, but I appreciate the peace of mind that comes with knowing I have the means to protect myself and my family if necessary. It's important to recognize that the reasons for owning firearms can vary depending on geographic location and individual circumstances. In some areas, there may be concerns about break-ins or theft, while in others, protection from wildlife such as bears or mountain lions may be a primary consideration.
YES REMEMBER, "WHEN SECONDS COUNT THE POLICE ARE ONLY MINUTES AWAY!!"
@@mhrcracingMolon Labe .
I'm up to 10 snakes and 3 wild dogs this year
@@dramspringfealdI'm up to 6 snakes myself. I had to fence my entire property in to keep hogs and gators out. Joys of living in a swamp.
@@God__Emperor_what state? I’m in LA and have to chase gators and snakes out of my yard too 🤠👍 Damn I lost swamp life!
Germany was featured in a good movie where citizens could not own guns and only the police and the government were allowed to have guns. It was called…… Schindlers List
Ooooooo savage😅.
@@omegaerwin5417 He's 14 and this is deep.
Yeah, but the US does kill probably a million brown people a decade. So the ownership of firearms is neither here nor there. The Germans wanted to have a country like the US that had vast lands and agricultural properties. The big plan was to kill 30 million people in the general area of Poland and the Ukraine. They were reassured that this was something a civilized nation might do because the US got it's lands through the genocide of the Plains Indians. Or one could look at the French in Algeria. And of course Russia, and later China also racked up huge numbers.
I don't know what the US numbers are, which is interesting in and of itself. But here is Clinton's Sec State talking about killing 500K children being "worth It". th-cam.com/video/KP1OAD9jSaI/w-d-xo.html
Of course the killing didn't end there, it carried on, and there were equal numbers of adults. Stahl mentions that number is more the Hiroshima, yeah, at least 10X. Of course who knows what is required to maintain order in the world. I don't.
Facts and the u.s government wants it like that here we cannot give up our nature rights for anything
I like my guns as a sport, but thinking you're going to intimidate anyone above your local SWAT team is hilarious and self-important.
Texan here. We are a group that’s set on living as free as we can. We are armed to keep it that way. Part of our culture (Texan) is a general mistrust of government. Having said all that. We also understand that an armed society is most likely a polite society. 😅
Stay strong and conservative Texans, California is coming for your freedoms.
A civilized society is a polite society. I couldn't call America's armed urban youth "polite".
@@MarkStoddard 'urban.' There's your problem.
Pack people in too tightly and things are going to go wrong
@@MarkStoddard - Depends on the youth culture. In our neighborhood the youth are armed law abiding citizens who watch out for their families and neighborhoods and during the 2020 riots we didn't get a single Antifa/BLM thug looking for trouble because the moment they saw all of us standing with our AR/AK rifles they decided that they didn't want to "Protest" anywhere near us, meanwhile the urban areas in NY, Chicago, California and DC are filled with armed violent thugs that are protected by Democrat politicians like AOC, C-Waters, Pelosi and all the other leftist gun hating Democrats.
@@MarkStoddardThe urban youth were raised by the worst culture in this country, a course you have middle schoolers running around with switches on their glocks.
If you didn’t already know ,Glock handguns were originally from your neighboring country of Austria .
Gaston is think the maker is called Gaston Glock.
They just cant be used in Poland😂😂😂
@@mhrcracing Shut up Adolf
@@mhrcracing Right as governmental officials have NEVER abused an unarmed populace…………….
@mhrcracing that would cause a civil war. 100 million gun owners will never surrender our 2nd Amendment Rights.
People think more guns mean more crime, when in reality, an armed society is a polite society.
Well more guns does mean more gun deaths.
Dumb@@tedhaubrich
@@_Clayton.Bigsby_ it's just a fact
You can think it's dumb or not. I agree an armedsociety is a polite one, doesn't change thr fact that higher per capita number is the higher the deaths from fun shot wounds per capita is. That includes suicides, the majority of Deaths and accidents, and why a gun in your house is many times more likely to kill a family member than an imtruder.
@@tedhaubrich And when there are no guns you just get knife deaths instead.
@@tedhaubrich More deaths, or more gun deaths? Talking exclusively about gun deaths is purely lying.
Dear Chris ,
I to am Chris and of German decent . I would like to get you to think. Being a pacifist isnt a thing. If you are incapable of violence then you have no choice due to inability . A truely good Man is capable of great violence .
The only true virtue is being able to create damage and violence and choosing the peaceful path .
What value is a man that cant , in time of need , use violent action to defend family and those who cant defend themselves.
Pacifism is a pretty word for fragile and weak.
My mother lived through WWII as an orphan in Germany . And I was raised to abhor violence and for first part of my life I became a weak coward and a bullied young man .
I still abhor violence but the only way to stop someone determined to be violent against you is to be capable of meeting that head on and overcoming it .
To paraphrase Robert Heinlein, a "pacifist male" is an oxymoron!
@@willong1000 We are free to own and use firearms for self-defense. Chris is free to hide under his Mommy's bed, curl up in a ball and cry about all those scary-looking guns.
Be dangerous -JBP
"What value is a man that can't?" Is there a trigger that a woman can't pull?
You miss the point that if you must expect every random guy to have the ability to unleash lethal force, it is way more likely that proactive lethal force in false and unneccessary self defense is being applied. So you have a devils spiral (as the Germans say) of growing force against growing force.
Germans are clever enough to not initiate that process.
I’m 70 years old and I’ve been hunting, shooting and carrying a weapon for almost 50 years. Here at home I keep a 40 cal and a 9mm next to my bed and when I move the living room I take them with me. My parents lived behind me until they passed but they were gone to town one Saturday and a thug kicked in the door. My folks called me from town and I was at their house within minutes and came out of my car with my pistol in my hand. A neighbor came from across the street but the perp got away before we could get to the house.
Here we have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. I’ve read that when Hitler came to power in Germany that one of the first things he did was confiscate the citizens weapons. People like him are the reason our nations founders felt so strongly about the right to keep and bear arms. Most of the men I know hunt deer, target shoot and enjoy shooting sports and a good many carry for self defense.
"I’ve read that when Hitler came to power in Germany that one of the first things he did was confiscate the citizens weapons."
That statement, often repeated by those trying to equate the rise of Nazi tyranny with the establishment of any form of gun control, is factually wrong and intellectually dishonest, especially because when the Nazi's took over from the democratic Weimar Republic, EXISTING gun ownership rules were actually LOOSENED by the Nazis. While new laws DID systematically disarm so-called "unreliable" persons, especially Jews, restrictions for Nazi party members were relaxed. However populations in occupied territories were understandably not allowed to possess weapons.
Your statement's origins come from biased, flawed and incomplete historical analysis with the intent to suggest that the Holocaust might have been lessened had the Jews been armed, not that the population as a whole could have risen up and resisted. Remember the Nazi's were ELECTED. With Jews comprising at best only 1% of the population, even had they been armed, expecting successful resistance or insurrection from such a small population is unrealistic and intellectually dishonest.
Coward
I'm 72. My father bought me my first gun,( 20 gauge Stevens) when I was 12 years old. I've owned guns ever since then.
I would say that you have a human right endowed by our creator, whoever that might be. The constitution just tells our government that they can't take that away from us.
Sorry for TLDR. Was anyone home in that house? If not, you were lucky the perp got away, and I am just basing this off how it is written, so If my interpretation of the situation was wrong, then my apologies. I am not really replying directly, but just sort of using this to help do a bit of edumacation. I've taught firearms and firearms safety for 25 years now, both civilian and DOJ. The biggest misconception I come across is WHEN you can use a firearm. A GREAT place for quick overviews on the legal side are from Ayoob at Wilson Combat. Anyways, you can only use lethal force when you are in imminent threat of being killed or receiving grievous bodily injury, and that includes brandishing. The castle law assumes that anyone breaking into your home with you inside of it has life threatening intentions towards you. Now the big issues, you can NOT protect property with lethal force (depending on state laws, TX allows it for some felonies, in certain areas, mostly farms) An empty house with a perp inside is not a immediate threat to your life, and unfortunately, should you have entered and shot the guy, you'd be facing charges, especially if he wasn't armed. If your parents were home, with the perp inside, different story, IF you are in a castle state. SO yeah, that means If a guy is carrying your stuff out the front door as you arrive home, you can't use a firearm or other forms of lethal force, you gotta break out the fisticuffs to defend your stuff from being taken. Seems not fair when the criminals don't follow the rules, but that is what makes them criminals.
I feel sorry for people that live in countries that have no rights to defend themselves! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I'll add the satisfaction of seeing steel shake a full second (or two if you're good) before hearing the ping. Slapping steel at a distance should be experienced by anyone who wants to safely
It's so bad what's happened to England. They import invaders, and when the invaders take over, the police do nothing and the English citizens are powerless.
They not only have no rights, but also have no wish to have rights 😮
P. S. God bless 2nd Amendment!
States also. Md, you can defend yourself but the state will encourage the burglers family to sue. Jersey is probably the worst I know about
I live in Maine, USA. In this state, we can carry a concealed gun with no permit. Crimes and abuse gets stopped by citizens. Look up our crime stats.
An armed society is a polite society. Imagine living someplace where you know for a fact that every adult you meet has a gun on them. Road rage, muggings, or simply getting into an fight is probably something to be avoided when you know that your victim - or anyone who sees what you are doing - has the right and the ability to put holes in you.
@@mhrcracingCome and take them .
@@mhrcracing come get them lib
@@Rabbit6ix Obviously the call to ban them is an appeal for someone else to do the actual work for them . A common theme on the left ...
@@mhrcracingonly tyrants, criminals and morons hate guns
You don’t “need” firearms…
Until the day you need them REALLY BAD!
Here’s the key: You don’t get to choose when that day is.
Thus endeth the lesson.
When he says "I have been doing a lot of work with the Kriss Vector," he means he has taken the weapon to the shooting range and has been practicing with it over and over to develop competence. A Mossberg 500 either 12 or 20 gauge is a good choice for home defense. Practice matters.
Wrong shotguns are overrated as if the home invader has someone in their arms the spread will hit the victim and the home invader and especially if it's pump action as it takes more time to get a shot off when a AR-15 is more practical even a pistol at that point.
Those outside the US who hear about "gun violence" need to realize that the vast majority occur in the highly-regulated, Democrat run cities. Most of us in rural "middle America" own multiple guns and live in very peaceful neighborhoods.
And the places these happen are usually in places with the harshest hun control we’re only criminals have them. Automatics are illegal yet Chicago and Detroit neighborhoods are full of guys running around blasting people with glocks with switches they got from wish.
A lot of the guns are straw purchases. Bought legally from outside the cities and smuggled in.
Yeah, middle America is peaceful. On the other hand, big cities are always more violent, and so are guns helping there? They might. Maybe some day we will try. The reality is one can't compare different countries with different circumstances, the US is unique, and a package of attributes.
Left-leaning American democrat here and I actually agree. The facts don't lie. The problem with gun regulation in the US is that it is too little too late. Regulating guns in the US is like prohibition in the early 20th century, you just push the sales and distribution underground which actually makes it even more of a problem. Places in the world where gun regulation actually works in keeping the peace weren't already littered with guns so it had a real possibility to eliminating the issue before it really started. The US is far too deep into guns that any attempts to limit gun sales is like trying to patch up a ruptured dam after the valley behind it is already flooded. I don't necessarily oppose background checks prior to sales, but I also don't believe that will even come close to solving the problem.
And before anybody says anything, I am a proud gun owner and grew up in a family of Army and Navy vets who loved guns so I am very familiar, and even appreciate American gun culture.
I was born, raised, and still live in the southern US. So far, nobody has been dumb enough to try and break onto my property. Probably because of the multiple signs we have posted reading "intruders will be allowed 1 warning shot. After that, pray."
You need to upgrade your sign to do to increased price of ammo there will be 'NO' warning shot fired!
@@billmeade9029 I'm a fan of the one that says "If you hear a warning shot, check yourself for holes."
The vast majority of Americans will never have to use their gun on another person in their entire life.
But I can guarantee you, the ones that do, aren't thinking back afterwards and going "man, I wish I didn't have a gun back then" lol
What if it gets used on someone other than a "home invader," either accidentally or deliberately? Because that scenario is a couple of orders of magnitude more likely than "home defense."
@@elizabethhenning778 your fuck up is not my problem
@@elizabethhenning778 "orders of magnitude" not even close defensive uses of firearms greatly exceed the accidental or misuse scenarios.
It's like a smoke detector. You can *probably* get away with not having one. Probably.
@@elizabethhenning778 If you leave a fire extinguisher in the middle of the living room would your family screw with it or would've you taught them its not a toy? Everyone under my roof knows how to safely handle & operate a firearm. Hell, my kids comment on movies when actors don't press check or clear the firearm when handing it to someone else. On average, there are 526 unintentional deaths and another 43,729 unintentional injuries due to firearms each year. There are 3,000,000 uses of firearms for self-defense annually.
The FBI estimates that firearms are used in self defense between 1 and 5 million times every year (normally just showing the weapon scares off the attacker). I have two good friends who, in separate instances, had to brandish a gun to stop attackers. One in a parking deck. The other was an attempted highway robbery.
lol attempted highway robbery? Did he hold up a store bc the prices were too high?
@@cdesez358Car pulled alongside his, pacing him. Passenger pointed a gun at him and motioned for him to pull over.
He pulled out his own firearm and they sped off. Funny enough for you??
@@WarriorPoet01 buddy of mine had that happen to him in memphis tn on the highway...lets just say the carjackers went away in a wooden box. guess they thought flashing a gun was gonna make them less likely to get shot.
@@davidredden9732 Always nice when a story has a happy ending 👍
Chris, most walls in American houses are generally made with sheet rock / drywall that's 3/8th to 3/4" thick. Most bullets will penetrate both sides and more.
Also, the gun he was holding while he made that comment could kill a bear.
@@I-Have-The-Cuckoo yeah that gun could probably penetrate a damn refrigerator
@@l3ftie578just about any gun can penetrate a refrigerator, it’s just thin sheet metal and foam.
@@stephencooper5040 -- It would depend upon how much, and what type, of food is in the icebox.
@@gregb6469 Penetrating a container only means entering, not going through. Furthermore, if it hits the food, it has entered, therefore penetrated.
Oh, i get it. In America we have trees, lots of them. We use them, instead of rocks, to build homes. Interior walls are also thinner than walls on the outside.
Most of us think it’s crazy that everyone else can’t.
In the U.S. 8 out of 10 home invasions are considered 'cold' invasions, meaning that nobody is home at the time of the invasions. In Europe 8 out of 10 home invasions are considered 'hoot' invasions, meaning someone is home at the time of the invasion. Top reasoning for invaders to go into homes when people are away? Fear that the owner has a weapon.
I remember seeing an interview that spoke to this years ago. I forgot who was doing the interview but they were interviewing people in jail for burglary and other crimes. One of them was said they only broke into houses if they were confident no one was there because the worse that can happen was the cops showing up. He said, "I don't fear the cops, they generally wont shoot you, just arrest you. It's a homeowner I'm scared of, beause he will kill me."
Are they called that because when you break into a Scottish house when the resident is home, he yells, "Hoot, mon! What're ye doin?'"
@@bwilliams463 🤣😄🤣
And a dog!!!
Ban guns
Um, you would think that a German of all people would be hesitant to trust the government to keep them safe. You have history books in Germany, right?
Ban guns
@@mhrcracing Ban criminals first.
@josephburleton9758 Germany has criminals too. But they don't have gun violence because they don't have guns in their country. Guns are just force multipliers, like conservatives have said all along. That's why they have no place in a civil society
@@mhrcracing Go play with your toy cars.
The Nazis banned guns, b cause they wanted a monopoly on use of force.@@mhrcracing
My mother in law from Ukraine once said "OH! I could never own a gun". My answer was, "you do not need to own a gun to be protected by guns. As a thief is driving down the street deciding what house to rob...he has no idea who has a gun and who does not". Your neighbor owning a gun is also protecting you. Home invasions while the owners are at home almost never happen...except in gun regulated states
A bit of irony about a Ukrainian not wanting guns in hindsight
👍👍
Incidentally, my wife was born in Ukraine during the Soviet Union. She is now a naturalized US citizen and LOVES shooting and guns. She has her own collection of rifles, shotguns and handguns.
Here in Arizona, most gun crimes are gang related as we have, for a long time, had constitutional carry, and criminals generally don't want to go after one who is likely to be armed.
Fun note: while proof reading I saw I wrote (hopefully due to auto correct) "fun crimes" rather than "gun crimes." For legal reasons after this, I do not endorse the commiting of crimes, fun or otherwise.
Sum the question up with....choices.....and not letting the government disarm the population.
The public owning guns is herd immunity against crime.
Freedom can be scary especially if you dont enjoy it where you live .😁🇺🇸
German people have a higher quality of life and longer life expectancy than Americans they are arguably more "free" than the US
Growing up in a subdivision, my wife's home got broken into several times while they were there. She was so used to hiding in the closet with the police on the phone. Her dad was anti gun. When he found out that I owned guns, he got angry with me. Asking me why did I own guns? There was no crime out where I live. Well, a former classmate of my brother, Christopher "Scott" Kilgore stole his dad's guns. Later on he shot dead his brother, his brother's friend, and tried to murder his dad just five minutes away from where I live. Manhunt went on for four days. Cops came by and told us to lock our doors and pray that Christopher Scott Kilgore did not break into our house and murder us. That is when my wife saw me load up all the guns that I had. She finally realized that we had a fighting chance against an intruder. Reading the police report that a local news station put on Scribd (sic), Kilgore was holding up a gas station when an unarmed man tried to attack him. Kilgore raised his gun at the guy, and told him to go to the restroom, and if he did not, Kilgore would shoot him dead. It was an armed homeowner whom forced Kilgore to flee on foot, narrowing the search radius. When the homeowner confronted KIlgore, it was dark out, but he said he saw the shotgun in Kilgore's hand as he fled into the woods. Cops found Kilgore hiding in a boat in someone's yard close by and shot him dead. The last report said that nobody posed a threat to Kilgore, that he intentionally shot and murdered innocent people in cold blood with no one armed to shoot back.
I was even the intended victim of an attempted armed carjacking in the middle of the day. I had my infant son with me in the car while waiting for my wife in the public library. I noticed the guy trying to avoid my mirrors. I had my handgun pointed at him once he made it to the driver side door with his own pistol. Scared him off without a single shot having to be fired. It made me wonder, why did this guy do this at a public library, in the middle of the day, where we were supposed to feel safe? Then it hit me, the public library itself is a gun free zone. The guy must of thought, no guns allowed in the building, therefore no guns in the parking lot, easy pickings.
When I was on a date with a woman, she told me about how when she was a kid in an apartment in New Jersey (gun control state) when her mom demanded that she get underneath the bed and not make a sound as the apartment door was being bashed in. Two guys raped her mom. Then one shot her dead. She remembered hearing the other guy say, "Man, what did you do that for?!" before they took off. She asked me what I thought about that. Apparently saying, "Your mom should of had a gun," was not the answer she wanted to hear. She wanted more gun control despite these criminals not obeying gun control laws.
@@AstanaxKnight -- I trust that was the only time you dated that stupid woman.
There are 130 million legal gun owners in the US, of those 56% or 72 million carry a side arm daily.
Sounds a bit high to me. As someone who has and occasionally still does carry, both concealed and open (Usually concealed) Firearms (especially concealed) are just not comfortable to carry, particularly in hot weather. I have yet to find a harness that can both breath well and hold a weapon securely and discreetly. It's a big part of the reason when I chose to not carry. Sometimes it is just more of a PITA than it's worse. (Of course Murphy's law dictates that the one time I ever need it would be on the day that I wasn't carrying but that is just another thing you have to think about when choosing to carry or not.)
I carry myself and encourage all who are legally able to and are willing to train to a moderate proficiency should at least consider their carry options. However for simple practical reasons (some good, some not so good) I seriously doubt that many carry daily.
@@Snipergoat1Honestly the biggest pain is finding clothes that are appealing as well as finding a place to holster my 43x. Most of the time I'm okay because I just wear leggings. It just sucks trying to conceal in the summer like you mentioned.
It's rare I feel the need to be armed while in public. I'm not a child, woman, or frail. I just don't get it.
@@BillRobinson1805 that's your choice, have a great day.
😂 gonna be young forever?
That's why Anyone who blindly follows a party or individual person is a real threat and our founders knew that.
I haven't ever had someone break into my home, but i live in rural Montana. I've had grizzly bears in my front yard.
AWWW! I want a cuddly grizzly in MY front yard!!
@Milkspothero lol, yes the cartels are pining over the 1 million people in the ENTIRE state. Need that revenue.
@contumelious-8440 to be fair, they use montana as a gateway to Canada. They run the I-15 the whole way up. It's also an artery for meth, primarily to the oil fields and the reservations, which are difficult to police because of their remote locations and unique policing rules.
We aren't the market, we're a distribution hub.
@@contumelious-8440a lot of drug trafficking along the Canadian border since the southern one is mostly where border patrol is patrolling.
@@contumelious-8440 - Cartels are also running around New Mexico and southern Texas from what I heard. Good to see that our Democrat politicians are not racist enough to kick Mexican Cartels out of our country in fear of being labeled racist, good job Democrats, RIP American citizens........
I live in Georgia and I’ve met Eric a couple of times. He’s extremely down to earth and friendly. Even though he has a huge following on TH-cam he still takes the time to talk to people if you run into him at a gun show or something.
It's so cool to see a perspective from someone who does not have the same access to guns as us Americans. As a gun owner and instructor myself it was very insightful and may help me when introducing firearms to new people in the future.
The first rule of gunfighting is to have a gun. Any gun is better than no gun but yes, there are different guns for different scenarios. When you grow up around guns one tends to never think about them, but I guess it would be strange to someone from a country where guns are not allowed.
Primary reason for this right is defense against government secondary is personal defense.
Ban guns
@@mhrcracing shut up Adolf
@@mhrcracing Ban yoursef Eidolph
@@mhrcracingStop being a wuss
@@mhrcracingboot licking shill lol
About 15 years ago I made friends with a fellow university student, a german guy. I brought him out to visit my family out in the country, we visited a local gun range and shot a few of our guns. At the end I asked him which one would he like to have if he could choose one. He said "none of them!"
Viel Gluck with what you're doing in germany, we'll be keeping our weapons over here tyvm.
It's not working out for them with violent crime and grapes.
in case no one has explained, in the us the walls are made with a wooden frame with 1/2 inch thick panels nailed or screwed on each side. if you swing a hammer it will break through drywall. if someone is angry enough they can even punch a hole with their fist. think of the panels as cardboard, with chaulk inside.
It’s weird to us that you can’t have guns or gave up the ability to own guns without a fight.
Oh there was a fight alright. It was called World War 2, maybe you heard of it? The victors wrote the rules for the defeated, and that's why guns are banned in Germany and Japan.
@@WJS774 and the rest of Europe and UK?
@@shag139 Settled land for thousands of years. We killed all our wolves in Britain before America was even discovered. I'm just saying, in the specific case of Germany, those laws date to the late '40s.
I really appreciate your honest reaction, but being open to learning more. I can't say that I go to bed at night frightened that someone will break in, home invasions are very rare where I live. However, it only needs to happen once. I keep a handgun with a lot of stopping power next to the bed, just in case. I have a smaller handgun that I carry when away from the house. And I have one that's between those two when I'm mowing, cutting firewood, etc. We have bobcats, coyotes, wild dogs and the occasional rattlesnake in the area. Even smaller animals like raccoons can be extremely dangerous, especially if that animal has rabies. It's better to have a thing and not need it than to need a thing and not have it. ;)
Hi Chirs, I lived in both American and Germany. There is a huge difference between US home construction and German home construction. In Germany, walls are generally brick and solid. In the US, they are what we call stud walls. So, wood 2x4 studs 16-inches on center and then just drywall (gypsum) between them. Maybe with some insulation, but even tough our walls are 5 or 7 inches thick, there is only 1 inch of actual material and it is like chalk, so not very hard and easy to shoot through.
I live in Texas so to legally buy a gun I must have a Valid ID with my current address and at the Firearm dealer I must pass a background check at the time of purchase. This usually only takes 20-30 minutes. There are restrictions on the type of firearm I am able to purchase as was mentioned in the video.
Same with Florida.
Same with every state, New Jersey, notwithstanding. In a few states eg Illinois you have to have a goat license to have a firearm. Which is Blatantly unconstitutional by the way.
If you have a concealed carry permit in TX, do you still need to pass the background check?
@@clwomble Form 4473 still has to be filled out and the check takes less time because of the permit to carry license. The check is still done.
@@PeskyCitizenTX incorrect in texas along with a few other states, a ltc takes the place of a nics check, just like showing law enforcement credentials takes the place of a nics check. since i got my ltc, after i fill out the 4473, all that is left is running my credit card and printing my receipt. the 4473 has a box where the dealer fills in the alternative to the nics check, there are several alternatives, owning an nfa weapon is also one as i recall, the background check for that is 100 times more thorough than a nics check.
Most homes in America are framed with wood 2x4’s every 16 inches and have 1/2” thick sheets of drywall on each side for interior walls. The space between the 2x4’s are hollow. Exterior walls vary on thickness and material depending on location. Either way, most ammunition will easily penetrate walls.
Every gun owner hopes to never have to use their weapon in self defense. It’s less about how often you need it, and more about having it IF you ever need it.
When he said he’d been working with that weapon it just means he was training with it.
Hallo Chris, I’m from Austria living in the US for over 30 years. We live in a gated community and most of us are well armed and responsible gun owners. We frequently go to range shooting our ARs and pistols and having a great time. Viele Grüße, Herbert.
I always pray I will never have to defend myself, my family and my home. However, I want to be ready in case I have to.
The difference is we’re citizens here, not subjects. At least for now.
He lives in Germany and is a citizen as well, you're thinking of a monarchy, like Britain. Germany has common sense laws governing firearms. Simple.
@@BillRobinson1805 Yes, they had "common sense" firearms laws in 1933 as well, requiring people to apply for a "permit" to own a firearm. Which, of course, all Jews were denied and I think we all know what happened shortly thereafter.
😂
@@BillRobinson1805 if you can’t defend yourself, against criminals or a tyrannical government, you’re a subject.
@@BillRobinson1805 What you call 'common sense' I call sheer stupidity.
Having a gun for home defense is like having insurance for your car, ideally, you'll never need it.
In America, mostly in the South, the walls are made of what is called 'dry wall'. Dry wall is essentially plaster covered in thick paper, and about 3/4" thick. In Europe ( I've been there ) the homes are of much better quality construction apparently made to last a long time.
It's always interesting seeing a European react to US gun videos, it's easy to forget just how different we are in terms of gun ownership. It's also nice that you're super chill about it-I've seen more than a few folks just about freak out any any talk of guns.
I'm a US citizen and have a concealed carry license. I've never had anyone break into my home while I was there but I carry more for protection against animals. In the mountains where I worked for years the animals sometimes entered homes or garages and could be quite a surprise.
Florida just got permitless carry. I carry 24/7. Retired professional.
In most of America, one doesn't technically "need" a gun for the worry you are expressing. We don't generally fear someone breaking in and killing us. Of course, if you live in a bad area, your mileage may vary. HOWEVER, even though I am a liberal democrat who favors more stringent gun laws to prevent crime, I understand and support our 2nd Amendment even though I personally don't own a gun. It is the 2nd Amendment which drives our desire to own guns, not the fear of someone breaking in. The rationale behind the 2nd Amendment is that the people's right to defend themselves against potential authoritarian rule should never be abridged. You only need to look to Russia to see how their rights and freedoms have been stripped away legally by their government to see how easily it can happen anywhere. So even though I don't like guns, I recognize the importance of the 2nd Amendment.
The 2nd amendment was created so Americans are able to prevent a slave uprising
MAGA bro:😲😲😲 wow, just wow👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 mad respect.
At a philosophical level. You think that not having firearms will make you safer? How do you address the basic problems like "criminals don't obey the law, why would they obey gun laws?" or "Given that there is a good chance that should you be a crime victim the criminal will use a firearm. Do you really think not having the option to respond likewise will really keep you more safe?" Also I don't know your gender, physique, background or anything else about you but even if you are someone who can reasonably expect to be able to take on someone who wishes to do you harm in a hand to hand fight, most potential victims will not be. (After all few predators are going to attack someone who looks like they could squash them.) What go you recommend (other than situational awareness, always the best defense) for your average 120 lb woman who is not going to be a physical match for almost any aggressor, likewise a disabled or elderly person. They need force multipliers and a firearm is hands down the best thing there is for that.
That is a philosophical difference I suppose. Still mad respect to you for recognizing that there is another and even more important facet to having an armed citizenry.
@@Snipergoat1as a gun owner and nra member, I thought his comment was written with respect, and while I don’t completely agree with everything he said, he does have the right to his opinion, and I respect him for how he stated his opinion.
I mostly agree, though I do appreciate being armed for home defense. I suppose that is because my husband frequently travels for work, and when I am alone there with our children, it is a fear. Not because we live in a bad area, but in rural area without quick response time. But then again, if people came in armed when my husband was here, I would still want defense because although he's stronger, what could anyone do? Break ins can happen anywhere. Hunting cabins in the middle of nowhere can be a target. And drug problems and desperate people are everywhere, including rural areas and small towns.
"Wait, it goes through the wall? How does it go through the wall, walls are very solid?"
I've lived in Germany and seen the archetecture out there. Here in the US, our walls are only about 14cm thick tops not the thick walls like Germany.
East and West Germany have very different construction methods. East Germany tends to have very cheap construction.
I love this guy now. He does not simply show arrogance, he shows curiousity, sonething hardly anybody has these days.
As someone that is not from united states. I myself, own a Zastava Arms M70. i recently moved to the USA from bulgaria. I was born in Azerbaijan and grew up there.
People say the whole “when seconds count politics are minutes away” as a sort of meme but it’s way way more true then most realize…America is BIG and while we have a lot of very good people at helping during emergencies the idea that the government can’t or won’t get to you to help you in time is one that has over and over and over again been shown to be legitimate… from animal attacks in the backwoods to shoots in cities to looting seen after hurricanes and natural disasters, people deserve to be able to take responsibility for themselves and their loved ones if that happens. Especially if the government refuses to
12:57 the walls on most American houses are hallow. They are wooden framed walls with drywall attached to the frames to make a wall. So most gun rounds will go through a couple of walls before they stop.
It's hard to make people understand that for the vast majority of Americans, you will never even hear a gunshot outside. It's very specific areas of places made up of very specific demographics where the stereotypes come from. The much publicized shootings are statistically not a thing you will encounter in the vast nation. Country where hunting happens, yes you will hear people target shooting occasionally. Most people who buy home defense weapons will lock them in a closet and not see them again for years.
Don't sell drugs or be in a gang and you're fine
We are more worried about people getting into the house. Most criminals here don’t shoot at us outside of the house.
@@kramermccabe8601not true at all. The people who live normal lives are the targets. They work and have money. A lot of them don’t have guns so they are really a target.
@@kramermccabe8601gangs are the aggressors. They are mostly a city problem. People in the rural areas are the ones that get targeted for multiple reasons. We need to protect our homes as the police could be an hour or more away. “Defund the Police” movement really hurt a lot of urban areas.
Yes, in the US, we have human predators and animal predators to worry about. Even in the more densely populated areas in the northeast have wild life that could be a threat. We also hunt for our own meat around the country and that makes us vulnerable to other predators that may cross our path.
In America our houses are made of wood the walls are just 2x4 wood frame will dry wall on each side of the wall. High velocity ammo or any ball ammo will go straight through. To other rooms.
You asked, “What work do you do with a gun?”… besides law enforcement and armed security guards and federal agents there are many people who defend their animals with guns from predators. We have them in all sizes, minks, weasels, bobcats, foxes,cats, dogs, cougars, badgers, coyotes, wolves, black and grizzly bears. Some people do go to work with a gun on them, and no badge…..Hope that helps….
This video is 10 years old now. A lot of people have swapped to AR15s for protecting their homes.
It really depends where I am in the home. I have guns (mostly pistols) hidden away around the house, so that I have one handy if sh*t happens. But two of them are a 9mm carbine, and a bullpup 5.56 (same as the AR15, but much shorter and easier to use in close quarters). Hunting rifles and other guns are in a gun safe. Some people say that they should all be in the safe, but do you really want to be spending a whole minute or so fiddling with a safe when someone is trying to break down your door? Yes, that happened to me. I had about 10-15 seconds to react, and fortunately I had a 45 on hand and they fled when they got through the door and were looking down the barrel.
personally, I've found the Scorpion Evo 9mm version would be unbelievably effective, small, lightweight have an eotech holo, surefire pressure pad light and suppressor so target acquisition and identification are amazing plus the report is quieter than bullet impact. plus 9mm isnt gonna zip through a few walls like 5.56 from a 16in barrel
@@acfiv1421Yeah I keep a Kimber 1911 in my night stand. My next go to is a pump 12 with either 3" magnum 000 buck or turkey loads.
i dont think thats necessarily true, the ar-15 doesn't really excel in the home environment as much as many other firearms. The media just like to use the term "ar-15 style rifle" because people have been trained to fear that gun.
Ban guns
American here of Jewish descent. My ancestors used to live in Germany. Guess why we don’t anymore. Damn right these guns are legal here.
Your "descendants?" So your children used to live in Germany? I'm trying to guess why they don’t anymore. Maybe spend more time reading than dreaming about killing a human for trying to steal your $200 tv.
BEST COMMENT!
You got that right; SKYNYRD, STREET SURVIVORS, 1977
"My descendants used to live in Germany"
Homie, your descendants never lived in Germany, your ancestors lived in Germany....
We have the second amendment because self defense is a God given right. You don't even believe in Christ.
Yes, both I and a friend chased of intruders. Mine when 911 kept passing me back and forth between two towns’ dispatchers. My friend heard some test his door poked his head outside heard another door being checked, racked a load with his shotgun and heard someone take off through some hedges and jump in a car and take off.
I'm 22 and I'm a lefty. I have owned about 5 guns since turning 18. Currently have 2. If you handle them frequently and learn them as tools, they become a lot less scary. There are only 4 major rules of gun safety and they're not hard to follow.
Edit: oh yeah, and our walls are basically paper machet. It honestly was hilarious to me that a German whose used to nice brick walls being like "IT GOES THROUGH THE WALL??HOW??"😭😭😭
walls: you're probably used to plaster construction. That will stop.... many firearms, but not all. In the US we have drywall, which a regular person can punch through with their fist and most firearms will blow through like klexnex.
in larger cities the odds of getting broke into are higher
When I worked night shift my apartment was burglarized several times until I finally moved into a apartment complex that had a security guard and fence... Burglars can figure out who is at home and who isn't...
@@ronclark9724 it's usually your own neighbors, believe it or not.
"How can it go through a wall?" Like a knife through hot butter, that's how. When he's talking about "the right gun with the right ammo" he means making sure you don't hit someone in an adjoining room, or your neighbors.
Most exterior walls are just 5mm plywood with thin plastic or wooden siding..Almost any firearm will go right through it..p.s. and yeah..any gun is better than none..
Every place I've ever lived the exterior walls are brick or block.
Interior walls are drywall over wood, but exterior walls are usually solid, unless you live in a mobile home or something.
@@VME-Brad Depends on what part of the country you're from. If you're on the West Coast and some of the warmer places, there's a lot of drywalls that you practically could kick a hole through your wall. Are you in the east coast or mid-west? Because I haven't seen a brick house since I left the Midwest as the teen.
@@VME-Brad I've literally never been in a home that wasn't paneling/drywall/obs, insultation, and siding.
Also in the US according to studies house thieves stake out and observe targets for 3-4 times longer than their European counterparts. This is because they don't want to deal with an armed homeowners.
Because of this in the US if someone breaks in while someone is home and doesnt IMMEDIATELY leave when they realize someone ia there it can be assumed it is a home invasion and they are after the occupants and are not burglers
9:09 most American houses don’t have hard concrete walls. Instead they have drywall which is essentially just paper some random powder in between it and then more paper and on the outside thin wood covered by thin plastic.
Yamamoto was asked about invading america after pearl harbor. He said there will be a rifle behind every tree.
Likely never happened.
It's a nice story, but I understand he never said that.
@@kcgunesq....according to left wingers
@paulx2777 according to who?
@@eq1373 When attributing a quote, the burden should be on the person offering the quote to cite to a primary or at least contemporary source. I am not aware of either existing. If you have one, I'd love to be wrong.
"dry wall" is thin; it is not solid; it is like a thick layer of plaster
The plaster in the house I lived in while in Germany was as hard as cement. Same as a house that I lived in a 1950's built Illinois house. For penetration purposes, drywall is more like several layers of cardboard. Most drywall is 1/2'-5/8' thick.
Dry wall is nothing like plaster. Plaster is hard as f**k. We got plaster walls at my old hotel and it takes forever and a half to drill holes through that stuff.
Not solid? Is it liquid?
@@Princess_Celestia_ They're literally the same thing, both are gypsum plaster, the only difference that drywall is precast in a factory and shipped as boards, while plaster is applied on site.
My husband and I carry a side arm daily. They are both personal protection firearm and home defense firearms.
Interior walls in American homes are usually just two layers of drywall with 2"x4" wooden studs every 16". Exterior walls are usually drywall, studs, insulation (either a foamboard type or fiberglass and tyvek) and brick/wood/metal/concrete/a material made of concrete and other materials that I can't remember the name of.
"Work" for a firearm could be hunting, wildlife predator control in mostly rural areas (we have bears, bobcats, and mountain lions where I live), and livestock protection from foxes and feral dogs.
I have had 2 occasions where I had to defend my home from 'uninvited guests '...thankfully, both times I was armed, and said 'guests' did not succeed in whatever they thought they were going to do. Also thankfully I never had to fire a shot, my mere presence with my firearm dissuaded them from any further unsavory activity.
In Germany, maybe you guys have stone homes but in the United States we have half inch thick drywall. On our interior walls we have a half inch thick drywall on each side of a stud. So a total of 1 inch of drywall from room to room. The only exception is the outside walls that separate the interior from the outdoors. They’re still half inch on each side, but there’s insulation in between. It’s not hard for a handgun round to go through several layers or more of drywall.
Burglary is a BIG part of FBI crime statistics. Home Invasions are where several burglars break-in, KNOWING you are home, and not caring if they have to hurt you to rob you. And frankly, your other question, well, the BEST gun to use is the one you are familiar with, have used and trained on, and are most proficient with.
Home invasions (any robbery where the resident is present) are exceedingly rare. We had an extremely drunk woman wander into our home one day. She used to live a few houses away but had moved away at least a year before. Apparently, she checked herself out of rehab, got falling down drunk and the walked to where she used to live. For some reason, she walked into our house, one of two on the block that look nothing like her old home. But we quickly identified she wasn't a threat. We called the police and they helped her get somewhere safe.
That said, understand that the laws in most US states not only authorize deadly force to someone who illegally enters your home, you don't even have to prove that your use of force was necessary. There is a legal presumption that the person was a threat and that force is justified.
HOWEVER, THEY DO HAPPEN! Like the one that happened to my Dad some years back. I warned him about keeping the doors locked and NOT answering a knock after midnight BUT he was raise in the country at a time when EVERYBODY kept their doors unlocked and at 60 + he still fancied himself able to take care of himself. UNTIL one night! He opened the front door to a knock at 11 PM and before he could do ANYTHING two young guys pushed their way in! Fortunately they were looking for some other guy, and realized they were in the wrong house and made a quick exit. HOWEVER dad DID KEEP THE DOORS SHUT AND LOCKED FROM THEN ON!!!!!!
"A legal presumption that the force was justified"? Source?
That is absolutely not the case in most places. Most states don't have a "Castle Law". Florida, Arkansas, Kansas, sure. But even then, a local DA in Miami, Little Rock, or Kansas City can absolutely pursue charges anyway, because Castle Doctrine still includes the caveat "reasonable force". There are plenty of people in prison for shooting home invaders.
@@CetomimusGillii I admit that I haven't done a recent count and analysis of each states laws. But if you look at states with some version of a "Stand your Ground" law, there are roughly 25-30 states.
www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-law-basics/states-that-have-stand-your-ground-laws.html
If you add in "Castle Doctrine" laws, it is roughly the same number of states.
From the National Conference of State Legislatures:
"Laws in at least 28 states and Puerto Rico allow that there is no duty to retreat an attacker in any place in which one is lawfully present. (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia Wyoming.) "
and
"Self-defense laws in at least 23 states (Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee West Virginia and Wisconsin) provide civil immunity under certain self- defense circumstances."
www.ncsl.org/civil-and-criminal-justice/self-defense-and-stand-your-ground
@kcgunesq Ok, I left out Stand Your Ground states, but that doctrine is even further from resembling "legal presumption that the force was justified". Perhaps you're thinking of Qualified Immunity for government officials, which includes law enforcement. Unlike civilians, they hardly ever face repercussions for shooting people
@@CetomimusGillii No. As noted above, many states actually prohibit prosecution unless the state can prove that the use of force was unjustified. The issue is who has to prove what. Presumption is not immunity. It is just a default, but can be overcome if warranted.
Hello Chris.
I, myself, am a Veteran. USMC Enlisted Weapons Instructor, who served in Quantico, Virginia back in 1979-1980.
This video is presented as fairly inexpensive 'home defense' weaponry that almost anyone can buy here in the US.
The pair of shotguns are 'classic' weaponry. Fairly easy to use, and they can be loaded with 'buckshot' instead of a solid round. This allows the user to fire the weapon inside a home and not have the chance that a bullet will penetrate interior walls and harm someone else.
An example: Shooting at a target inside your home with a solid shot (called a slug round). If you miss the target, the round would penetrate the wall or door behind them and continue on into the other room to hit something else before it ceases movement. If you were firing 'buckshot' instead and missed, it is unlikely that the buckshot would penetrate a wooden door, and if it did, the buckshot pellets would be drastically reduced in speed and fail to penetrate things behind the door or wall.
The revolver shown is something that most would never need. It can fire shotgun shells and .45 caliber rounds of several types. Even a 410 shotgun shell, fired out of a revolver, is going to have a considerable recoil, and you would need a very strong grip as well as have to deal with the muzzle rise firing such ammunition.
The folding stock weapon is something that I would think that veterans might use, since it mimics some of the weapons used in the military. The weapon, folded, is a 'bull pup' type of weapon. The barrel is quite short, and it has a fairly short recoil when fired. Folding out the stock is just making the weapon a bit longer and giving the shooter a way to firmly seat the weapon into one's shoulder for better accuracy when firing. This is NOT to say that the weapon needs the folding stock to work. It works fine as is. Especially for short-ranged 'combat', like shooting inside one's home.
The fact that the bull pup weapon has a built in light and the sight, is not really all that important. You can get such sights and lights for any of the other weapons shown. Especially easily for the Glock pistol.
Ah, now I've done it. I said Glock. You do not need to fall into the whole Glock-anti-Glock issue. Some like Glocks, some hate them. Personally, I prefer the Mossberg MC2C. Which is a Glock-like weapon made by the Mossberg corporation. But then again, I like having a small, portable, handgun available to me, should I need to use a firearm for protection. I also get special loads for the 9mm ammunition the MC2C uses. Standard rounds for target shooting at the range, and more lightly loaded rounds for 'home protection'. What I mean by 'lightly loaded' is that the gunpowder charge in each shell is less than 'normal'. Thus, safer to fire inside one's home, since the round will not penetrate very far if you miss the target.
Now, about shooting through walls. The man in the video is distinctly describing the penetration of 'sheet rock' walls. Commonly called plasterboard walls. NOT exterior walls made of brick, stone thick concrete, etc.
Myself, I own a Mossberg MC2C, two shotguns, and two rifles. And I am looking for more weapons that I can afford. It is sort of like eating cookies. You have one, then try another. The two sit in your belly and talk about inviting friends in for the party. Soon, you have eaten an entire package of cookies and wonder why you were so greedy. Another way to think of it is collecting your favorite fan item. Be it Pokemon cards, cars, toy cars, beanie babies, whatever. You get one, you find another you like, then a third, and eventually you have quite the collection.
Believe it or not, such collecting behavior is 'normal' for humans.
Finally. Remember the key issue. It is NOT the weapon that is dangerous. The weapon is a tool. The person behind it is the danger. Especially those that are only minimally trained, or totally untrained. Like driving a car, one needs training to use a weapon safely and effectively. And with weapons, frequent and repetitive training is best to ensure safety and accuracy.
Take my advice and knowledge if you wish. Or not. That is YOUR choice.
Tl,dr
Larger gauge buckshot DOES penetrate interior walls. You have to scale down below the aughts before you get pellets that two sheets of sheetrock can stop.
work with a gun means gunsmithing
when he says penetrate most homes in the US are drywall and wood, apartments only between you and your neighbor is drywall, you want something that doesnt pentrate to the next apartment or house
Just saw your video Chris. Two days ago the local Police broadcast for everyone to stay in doors, lock windows etc as a man was shot and killed 5 blocks away from my Apartment. The shooter was loose in the neighborhood. I contacted several neighbors included a retired Police Officer and checked one of my weapons. Thankfully the badguy was arrested in an hour but most of the time violent crimes are not solved in that short time span. I let the Police handle however was ready to defend myself and my neighbors. Same as last year a escaped convict was on the loose for a week and broke into multiple homes. He was convicted of two murders but finally was caught. I grew up in the Germantown Section of Philadelphia which now is not so nice but my currently neighborhood is "safer" but as anywhere is not immune...🇩🇪...🇺🇸
This guy seems to often pick 'home defense guns' that have more to do with what he wants to sell or thinks are cool rather than what may be needed in the extremely rare occurrence of home defense.
Also, my grandparents home was once robbed, but they were not at home and the robbers weren't armed, they were just rather dumb drug addicts.
in America most people don't have stone houses they are made of wood and the drywall inside walls are thin and can easily be shot through , love your channel and your openness to discuss and watch things with an open mind keep up the good work
Chris, you'll notice in videos about guns/firearms, bullets will be referred to by number of grains. That's the weight of the actual projectile that leaves the barrel. Basically, 16 grains equals 1 gram. So the .45 ACP (11.43mm) he mentions used by the Kriss Vector weighs 14.3g and travels around 259 metres per second. Funny enough, that's actually slow for a bullet. Basically, .45 ACP acts like a sledgehammer on its target. For comparison to another pistol calibre, 9mm Parabellum (aka Luger) typically weighs 8g and moves between 350 and 400 m/s. It's a very capable round and is used by militaries, police and civilians around the world.
I'm sure you'll be interested to know that the new assault rifle and light machinegun (plus the current pistol) of the US Military takes advantage of German engineering. SIG Sauer designed and builds all three of those weapons. The rifle and machinegun are both chambered in the all-new 6.8x51mm cartridge. The rifle is also sold on the civilian market as the SIG MCX Spear.
Vector has such a mean bolt release button when your last round goes out. Watch your left thumb if ur going barehanded.
I live in Midwest USA in a smaller town. I've never had a home intruder nor a burglar. Until very recently, I never locked the doors to my home. I wasn't even certain of where the key was located. I didn't care. I didn't worry about it. None of my friends or family have had an intruder or burglar. I don't know anyone who has shot anyone, except for soldiers. Defensive firing of a gun is actually very, very rare. One reason for that is rural people and small town tend to behave better. One reason for that is the knowledge among violent criminals that many of the homes have armed residents. That's a serious deterrent.
Americans who grew up with guns don't have just one. You have the guns you inherited from your father, and maybe HIS father's guns too. Then the more modern ones you wanted to buy. Most guys I know have maybe a dozen firearms on average.
You must live in Texas or somewhere, I live in urban Ohio and none of the guys I know own any guns at all.
You don't know everyone.😁 I'm in Ohio and have always had guns along with most people I know.
@@zibbitybibbitybop Well, I don't. I live in Oregon. And Ohio has a TON of guns everywhere. Just not in your twinkie circle.
@@zibbitybibbitybop City slickers - useless.
@@zibbitybibbitybopIf you only circulate amongst anti-self defence anti-2A pansies..of course you won't run into people who own even a single firearm. It could also be that people, knowing your position, simply don't share with you that they possess them. 🤷
The point is here the government doesn't allow ITSELF to impose regulations on its citizens so much
Ban guns
@@mhrcracing that would be one of those things that the government and the Citizens would consider government overreach
@@brianburgess3231 speak for yourself. Poll after poll shows the majority of Americans want gun control
15:55 In the USA The FBI maintains extensive crime reporting tools. According to the FBI UCR (Uniform Crime Reporting Program) website, "In 2019, there were an estimated 1,117,696 burglaries, a decrease of 9.5 percent when compared with 2018 data. The number of burglaries decreased 29.6 percent when compared with 2015 data and was down 48.5 percent when compared with the 2010 estimate." "Burglaries of residential properties accounted for 62.8 percent of all burglary offenses." "By subcategory, 55.7 percent of burglaries involved forcible entry, 37.8 percent were unlawful entries, and 6.5 percent were attempted forcible entry."
I love your genuine and honest curiosity. I've been a gun owner for over 30 years. Here in America guns are a part of our culture and guns just like people come in all shapes, sizes and capabilities. Bullets can penetrate thru many different objects and depending both on the object as an example drywall (just layered chalk paper) understanding the type of ammunition you're using is a key factor. I've carried firearms primarily for work and self defense, but I thoroughly enjoy just spending some time at the shooting range for quiet meditation.
It's funny to see a German appreciate the shot gun. During ww1 Germany protested the shot gun as a inhumane weapon. But it was good for Americans to clear a trench out fast. Because the shot spreads.
Yeah the irony there cracked me up.
The Criss Vector is an SBR - short barreled rifle, which requires you to register the gun with the ATF and pay for a tax stamp, thanks to the NFA or National Firearms Act, which is constitutionally questionable but has never been successfully challenged in court. The NFA also requires the registration of all suppressors.
My husband has many guns, including shotguns, I have a big black dog that you can't see at night until it's too late, so if someone comes through my window at night they have a big surprise waiting for them! My husband is a hunter. He is also an Air Force Veteran!
Ban guns
@@mhrcracing Guns don't hurt people, people hurt people, it would do no good to ban guns, besides then the only people that have them would be criminals, so no thank you on the gun banning!
Chris in the US people use guns in defensive situations between 250,000 to 3,000,000 times a year thats inside and out in the streets of themselves or others. Not all mean some were shot it means sometimes a person may have just brandished the weapon. No grounded gun owner ever wants to have to use their gun, but we always want to be well trained and prepared to use them safely.
Nothing says you must own a gun but if you chose to just for defending your home these are his picks also, this video is 10 years old find some that are no older than 5 years old.
You can buy a flashlight, aka gun light or a laser pointer for all of the other guns except for the Smith & Wesson Governor and all perfectly legal.
Yes, bullets can penetrate a home's walls. The only walls you can't shoot through with a single shot are stone or concrete.
"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
- Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776
You know the boy H is looking up at Germany right now with a disgusted face😂
Southern people say "Some work with..." means he's shot it a lot. Different types of shooting and ammo. In the north it would normally mean he did security or something with the gun. But not always.
It's not a Southern/Northern thing. It's a Gun Culture thing. He means training with it, practicing with it, and running drills with it. There are lot of videos showing handgun drills, carbine drills, etc to show you what I mean.
@JohnDoe-fu6zt you're probably right. I'm from MN and I've been involved in gun culture my whole life, but never heard the expression till about 10 years ago. Heard it a lot from southerners. So I naturally assumed it was a southerner thing. Because MN is weird af lol
@colddarkmatter1731 Frankly, it's a bit of "cool guy" talk, like saying "I run a Geissele trigger," or "I run a Wilson Combat grip module on my EDC." The really cool guys don't use accessories, they RUN them.
Lol as a gun owner this dude is cracked, no one is buying the Kriss Vector for home defense, it's a $1500+ gun. It's also difficult to obtain depending on where you live in the states. Compared to a handgun which I've seen going for $200 and less.
“Cracked”? Or maybe he simply has a different view based on his culture. No need to be rude.
@pwbmd yes it's cracked, it's like telling someone to buy a Porsche to drive to and from the grocery store, when you live next to the store.
@omok2 it's one hell of a ride though. 😊
@@omok2 Eh, more like mid ranged. $1500 is mid-upper mid prices, with the more gucci guns in the 2K+ range. Granted you can get Budget AR's for $5-600 if you're frugal but you can also find Kriss' for like 12-1400 often enough on the used market that you can get good deals too, plus they were also a bit cheaper back when the video was made like 10 years ago and were a similar price to the used market
@ComotoseOnAnime still, the point stands there are dozens of options for home defense that are cheaper and more practical.
" It's crazy you can buy that type of gun in America " that's why I'm proud to be American.
US homes aren't typically made of stone, but wood, plywood and drywall, also there are various jacketed rounds of high caliber that could easily penetrate a stone home. Most home defense/self defense gun owners carry hollow point rounds because the quick expansion stops it from going through objects without dumping energy. You dont use full metal jacket rounds because they may go clean through your target, the wall, and down the street which isnt good for anyone.
I dint think they have drywall in Germany. That's one thing I envy about German, their thick stone and brick walls.
The ‘work with guns’ that he’s talking about is anything from shooting, doing drills, training of some sorts, also to include taking it apart and making fixes or upgrades and playing around with different attachments etc.