[TriLUG] OT: Guns

[Greg Brown]

Well, for what it's worth I bought my pump action Mossberg for home defense
and almost strictly for the sound.. that pump action is LOUD when you do it
fast and let me tell you your blood will run ice cold if you hear that noise
and it wasn't you that made it.  I'd much rather have someone try to break
in and run away than break in and get shot (or worse, them shooting me).

Plus that and with 00 Buck you really don't have to aim well, and that's am
important factor.  The annals of police work show dozens of gun fights
between two more people all within 10 feet of each other where neither
person hit the other.  Lighting off a 00 buck will spray 9 .32 caliber
pellets with each shot that will cover and ever-increasing area the further
they travel.

Another factor is safety.  A shotgun is devastating at close range but the
effective penetration of, say, a neighbor's house by an errant group of
pellets is not as likely as a .45 or .357 rifled slug traveling at a much
greater feet per second rate.  If you go with something lighter than 00 Buck
the effective range drops even further.  Good stuff if you don't want to get
dragged into an unintentional manslaughter case, not to mention the guilt of
having killed someone unintentionally while defending your home.

(plus shotgun pellets aren't marked by barrel rifling so it's much harder to
trace a pellet back to a shotgun source, if not impossible)

Greg

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Warren Myers <volcimaster at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Personally, I like a slug-barreled 12ga with 00buck for home defense - but
> that's only because I can use it as a bludgeon if I miss :)
>
> Then again, 14rds of 45acp oughta stop anyone ;)
>
> WMM
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Paul McLanahan <pmclanahan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Tim Jowers <timjowers at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > OK, can't resist, does anyone have any experience with the "Judge".
> This
> > is
> > > what my cousin told me to buy for self-defense.
> > >
> >
> > In "guns for home defense" discussions, people often tell me that a
> shotgun
> > is better than a handgun (often followed by a flawed argument for banning
> > them). While I respectfully disagree that a (non-modified) shotgun is of
> > much use in close quarters, the Judge is very intriguing. I had never
> heard
> > of it. Thanks for the tip!
> >
> > Paul
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