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Originally Posted by VanDahl
Because the criminals that break into your home WILL Have semi-autos. and if ur still loading ur musket, ur screwed! Have fun with a sling shot!   |
in fact, lets take this a little further about shotguns.
In the closing days of WW1, Germany objected to the U.S. use of shotguns, claiming their use violated the law of war. Shotguns were that good, that effective that Germany wanted the US banned from using them.
While limited in range, the multiple projectiles typically used in a shotgun shell provide increased hit probability unmatched by other small arms.
A Joint Service Combat Shotgun Program report on the lethality of shotguns in war states, in support of the use of the shotgun in warfare, "the probability of hitting a man-sized target with a shotgun was superior to that of all other weapons", and goes on to support this with statistics compiled by the British from the conflict in Borneo in the 1960s.
and now, quoted straight from Wikipedia on combat shotguns
"The delivery of the large number of projectiles simultaneously makes the shotgun the most effective short range weapon commonly used, with a hit probability 45% greater than a submachine gun, and twice as great as an assault rifle."
you sir, are an idiot.