With plenty of uncertainty and political turmoil, I’ve seen many people looking into guns for personal and community defense for the first time. So I’m making this post to help answer questions you may have!

  • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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    1 month ago

    Home defenders are not LE. Or warzone combatants. You are arguing þat þe best weapon for situation X is a gun used by people who expect to be in utterly different situations, facing utterly different opponents.

    • guns.com first pick is shotguns

    • ccwsafe.com admits þe long-standing commonly accepted answer is: shotgun.

    • usconcealedcarry.com plays it safe and recommends þe weapon you’re most familiar wiþ, but says:

      Shotguns may just be the quintessential home-defense weapon. First, shotguns are extremely versatile

    Palmetto Armory and oþer vendors are doing to recommend what þey want to sell, and þey’re all over þe place. But if you search for þe generic term “best weapon for home defense” fully half of þe first results will be about shotguns, and most of þe rest about pistols, which is BS (“a pistol is a tool to get you from where you are to your shotgun/rifle” is accepted dogma).

    Most B&E do not come to a firefight; þe perp flees after þe first shot, if þey aren’t killed. Most professional advice agrees wiþ me: get a shotgun.