How many bullets do you need??...

[Harrier]

I need as many as it takes for the situation at hand.
If i am hunting big game, hopefully I only need one but better carry three
If I'm hunting varmint, I may need anywhere from a box for groundhogs to 200 for prairie dogs
If I'm going into town, hopefully I won't need any but if I do, I want as many as I can carry in the gun.
If I'm going to the range, I probably will shoot 200
If I'm buying to stock up I need 1000 to get a decent price
If SHTF for any reason I need as many as I can get
but then it's not about need... it's a matter of how many do I want, which is nobody's business.

[smithers599]

Those people must be referring to the part of the Constitution known as the Bill of Needs, in which the government has the right to decide what people need.
How many abortions do you need? How many books do you need? How many electronic devices? How many pairs of shoes? How much money do they really need? If liberals really want to go there, then they better not whine and snivel when the government tells them what they need.

[smithers599]

If the gun is for self defense, I suppose you could put a limit on it. If the purpose of the gun is to keep the government from rounding up fugitive slaves, Native Americans, Japanese-Americans, Jews, or homosexuals, and putting them on trains and shipping them to camps, then 30 is not nearly enough.

[Harrier]

Oh! OK, I see I read the question and didn't click the link...
I thought we were talking about the typical anti-gun rhetoric.

The answers of how much you would carry out and about don't address the video of a potential home invasion either. So the real question is how many bullets does one keep at ready for potential home invasions? News reports I have read so far indicate usually 2 or 3 perps but this video shows that it could be a lot more. 5 guys could take a while to supress depending on how committed they are and their shooting ability.

Like many indicated, you should have a pistol but it is to make them take cover while you get to your rifle or shotgun. Then an AR pistol or SBR with proper ammo for the situation would be more useful. Many would have to be aware of wall penetration and neighbors so that has to be thought out before shooting willy-nilly throughout the house.

So in light of the new video, I have 12 loaded in my .40 and 2 loaded mags plus a couple other surprises I won't mention.

Whats wrong with stucco? Wouldn't it stop errant round better than alum or vinyl siding?

[Azbuilder]

19 in the XDM and 10 in the Mossberg + 5 in the saddle . That is a basic start : )

[Bigmalcolm]

JUST ONE!!! THE RIGHT ONE!!! THE ONE THAT'S GONNA FINISH THE JOB AFTER THE FIRST BANG!!

[Chuck]

Review video from the Watts riots.

J frame with 5 rds would not have been enough.

[Steve_In_29]

JUST ONE!!! THE RIGHT ONE!!! THE ONE THAT'S GONNA FINISH THE JOB AFTER THE FIRST BANG!!

And if there are 2...3...or more people involved? Or you miss (gasp!!!). Ever been attacked or under fire before? Big difference between that and punching holes in paper or even doing run and gun drills as there is no actual danger involved in those.

That kind of false bravado helps the antis as they can point to it and say, "look even a gun guy says he doesn't need a 30rd mag".

[792mauser]

Barney Fife only needed one

[shooter444]

JUST ONE!!! THE RIGHT ONE!!! THE ONE THAT'S GONNA FINISH THE JOB AFTER THE FIRST BANG!!

Bigmalcolm, you made your point perfectly clear, to me, and I agree!

[Shifty]

All of them...

[Steve_In_29]

Barney Fife only needed one

I don't seem to recall Barney ever having to shoot anyone though.

It also wasn't that he only needed one...it was that he was only ALLOWED one and that one had to be kept in his pocket until needed.

[792mauser]

True.

As to how many I need, I reload so I plead the 5th.

[Shoot th3 moon]

17+1 plus one extra mag for the G17, 30+1 plus 3 full mags for the AR.... so I need 156 bullets

[shooter444]

Barney Fife only needed one

That's because Sheriff Taylor knew his deputy was slick, quick, and an expert marksman!