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Originally Posted by Cdnone1
Thanks Guys
My wife has never shot gun and she is pretty small. She is 5'7 and 118lbs (and still hot).
She used to be totally against having a gun in the house but she thinks it's a good idea. Not sure what's changed, LA has always been a weird place to live.
Jeff great idea about taking her with me. She really wants a handgun but in one of my previous threads about guns the majority seemed to think a shotgun would be better for what we might need it for. I would imagine that we would need to practice a lot with a handgun and if we use it for protection your hand is probably going to be shaking
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I was going to quote Jeff and post "What Jeff says," but would recommend a handgun now that I hear that was the original thought.
Yes, people always say "get a shotgun for home defense" but I'll bet such people have never tried to maneuver though their home with a shotgun. The shotgun has a lot of "stopping power" but unless one wants to pay the Federal tax (and assuming they are legal in your jurisdiction) to get a short-barreled shotgun, an 18.5 inch barreled shotgun is just
not a practical weapon to use in most homes.
Go with the handgun; a full-sized revolver, or full-sized auto, is quite adequate for home defense. It doesn't take much practice to be accurate with a handgun at the range most would be used if used inside a home.