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Califbill

"F.O.A.D." wrote:
On 2/6/14, 1:20 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 12:15:01 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

A shotgun is much better for home defense than a pistol.

I always hear that but I wonder if the theory has ever been tested.

Where do you keep this shotgun and what kind is it?

Do you keep it loaded?

What ammo?

Are you planning on just hiding behind the bed or are you going to
leave your bedroom?

I really question the idea of getting to a long gun safe, loading a
tube fed shotgun and actually maneuvering around the house with a full
sized sporting shotgun without someone taking it away from you.
If you are loaded with 00 buck, you might as well be using a .45 as
far as over penetration goes and the pattern on an 18" cylinder bore
is still going to be a couple inches at any range you are likely to
have in the house so you still have to aim. Where is the advantage?

That Biden quote may have been the stupidest thing I have ever heard,
even from Biden.

There are at least two advantages to a short barrel but legal shotgun for home defense:

Aim is important, but a tad less so than with a pistol since unchoked the
pellets will have a wider spread than a bullet. Shotgun pellets are less
likely to penetrate multiple panels of drywall and kill a kid or your wife two rooms away.

The spread of a shotgun in the house is negligible in the less than 12' you
would be shooting. Length is a real handicap. Major reason the Military
went to M16 type weapons. Lighter and shorter. The Israelis designed the
Tavor for just this type urban combat. Full length barrel in a Bullpup
design short weapon. If you had an old Ithaca Auto & Burglar 20 ga that
would be ideal. Illegal without the correct FFL stuff.