At one time I lent towards a number of 5.56 options, a unsuppressed 6933 was my original choice. Until I used it in a darkened shoot house and the reality of the flash and the affect of the deafening blast of a 11.5 barrel both on my situational awareness as well as the unavoidable damage to my children's hearing was really brought home to me. I then moved on to a AAC suppressed HK 416 upper/Colt lower and more recently a Surefire suppressed Swiss Arms 553, neither of which I was totally happy with.
At the urging of a former colleague I started looking at 300 BO options and have just started the class 3 paperwork on a Q Honey Badger. Hopefully in 4-5 months time I will be able to report back my experience with that platform. Honestly, I think I would be happy with the ballistics of a subsonic 300 BO, given that I live in a decently populated area I don't see my legally defensive range to be much beyond 50-100 yards at most.
“Like a sword, a word can wound or kill, but as long as one does not touch the blade, the sword is no more than a smooth piece of steel. Someone who knows the qualities of a sword does not play with it, and someone who knows the nature of words does not play with them.”-- Miyamoto Misashi
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