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ONE GOOD SELF DEFENSE TECHNIQUE
The Best Home Defense Gun
A lot of people made sure they bought
a gun before the inauguration of
President Obama. Did you buy one for
home defense? What is the best home
defense gun? Three types of firearms
can be considered, a pistol, rifle or
shotgun.
Most people consider a handgun first. They are portable, concealable and tend to be less expensive. But, they
have considerable draw backs. They require the most amount of skill to hit a target and therefore require the
most training and practice. If you do not have a great deal of experience with guns, it would be smart to choose
a home defense gun with a minimum of complications so that it is easy to use under stress. If someone else in
your household may also need to use the gun you choose, you must take this into consideration.
While handguns possess the advantages of portability and concealability, handguns lack knock down power for
self defense. To get real knock down power, the kind reliably sufficient to halt an aggressor, you need to use a
rifle or shotgun. This is especially true of the criminal that has been drinking, is on drugs, or is the kind of
endorphin junkie that gets excited by pain. (Yes, the latter does exist, and if you run into him you have a real
problem on your hands.)
Rifles have knock down power, and are accurate over a greater distance. If you miss or even if you hit the
criminal you have to worry about over penetration. The bullet may go through the criminal and then through the
wall behind them striking a family member or innocent by stander.
In the vast majority of defensive encounters the range is short -- inside your home.
In this situation, a short-barreled shotgun loaded with one of the larger sizes of bird shot is the best choice. It
offers excellent "stopping power," but the pellets won't blow through several walls to possibly hit someone
else, like a pistol or rifle bullet will. At close range inside a house, the shot doesn’t have time to spread out.
The longer weapon lets an inexperienced shooter hit their target.
My personal favorite
the Remington 870
Another advantage is that the sound of the slide of a pump-action shotgun is very intimidating. The .62 caliber
bore of a 20 gauge is pretty scary if it's pointed at you, too. According to Professor Gary Kleck, who has
researched the million or more defensive gun usages which occur in the
U.S. every year, the vast majority never see a shot fired. The threat of being shot is usually enough to stop the
crime in progress. Intimidating appearance or sound is very valuable. A short-barreled 20 or 12 gauge shotgun
is the best home defense gun. (Good shotgun choices are the Winchester 1300 Defender, Mossberg 500 and
590 or Remington 870)
Your choice of what gun to use for home defense is really only a very small part of the equation. Before you
can be truly well protected, you must have more than a good gun. You need training in how to use it, and just
as importantly, when to use it. You need to make yourself familiar with your jurisdiction's laws regarding the
use of deadly force. You should have a plan in place on what you'll do if your home is invaded. E.g., do you
have a "safe-room" to retreat to if your home is invaded, where you and your family can wait until the police
arrive? Do you have access to a cellular phone to call the police if the crooks are smart enough to cut your
telephone lines before they break in?
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