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Don't kid yourself unless you paid the trasfer tax for a REAL sawed off you STILL need to AIM your shots with a shotgun.
Shoot at a few clay pigeons with #7 or 9 shot and you'll see what i mean.
The MYTH of pulling the trigger once and filling a hallway with lead pellets is JUST that a MYTH. BUCKSHOT's pattern is generally designed to cover a 9 inch circle at 50 feet. if you doubt it PATTERN your shotgun.
You'll likely see that at 5 to 7 yards (average shot inside a house) the shot is moving as ONE SOLID MASS for the most part. This is why even BIRD SHOT at that range is LETHAL, it would be like getting hit with a one ounce GLASER SLUG at close range. Hell at "in home range" the WAD is a deadly projectile. A hit ANYWHERE with that will cause massive tramua.. if not lethal trauma.
Case AGINST ar's/ak's/galil's etc:
Imagine the brass that your ar/ak/galil spits out 20-30 feet zinging off walls, headboards, windows, mantles etc and back at you spoiling your aim, going into your pj's raining red hot on your wife.. girlfriend.. dog etc. etc.
Imagine that you STILL need a CN/torso hit with such a small projectile to cause serious injury/death to an opponent.
Consider that blasting away with 30 rounds in the dark WILL ruin your night vision and hearing.
Consider that MOST folks DON'T use frangible ammo.. rather mil spec m855 ball or ss109 steel core ammo.. BOTH are notorious overpenetrators. FRANGILBE loads may create nasty "cratering" wounds that don't penetrate enough. A Good SOFT POINT might not feed reliably in your semi auto.
And last but not least your 30 shot bannana clip is EVIL according to some people. "You shot that poor man who was only stealing your silver with a 30 round clip of tracers and armor piercing bullets designed to kill innocent...blahblah blah". (you've heard that before)
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Its REALLY unlikely that the crack head there to steal your stereo to sell for drugs is wearing body armor.. and the average rapist has a difficult time fitting a ski mask over a kevlar helmet. A One Ounce Load of "birdshot" (ie #4 bb's) should be MORE than enough to dissuade a determined agressor from getting to YOU or your loved ones.
So UNLESS you are playing Army.. and have been VERY WELL TRAINED in the use of a semi auto carbine... a shot gun is FAR Better at delivering a lethal wound to STOP an attack.
Hope you NEVER have to use it,
Dr.Rob
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