Pump Shot Gun For Home Defense. Your Choice, This Is Mime.
By Gregory Kielma
Pump Shot Gun and Home Defense
Most defensive gun cases don't involve discharging the weapon. If you use a shotgun for home defense, are you statistically safer if you rack the slide to deter an intruder?
Gregg Kielma
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There are many who will disagree with me on this point.
It’s recommend that all defensive firearms used for in-home defense be loaded, stored with a round chambered and ready for use at a moment’s notice - with one exception.
I recommend that pump action shotguns be loaded but stored with an empty chamber. The sound of a pump action shotgun being racked to chamber a round is unmistakable and many times will deter an attack. This is well documented. You still need to be ready and willing to use it if necessary if:
Assuming the sound alone will deter attackers, and they retreat, you have already saved your life and possibly the attacker. Some attackers are betting you won’t have the bravery to use it while others may have a death wish.
In any case, you only deploy a firearm in necessary self-defense situations, you are the “reasonable person” and if you are willing and able to use it. If not, the possibility of having your firearm taken from you by an attacker and used against you is very real.
Gregg Kielma
FFL-Firearms- Instructor First Aid Fundamentals Instructor-Gunsmith-
AED Defibrillator Sales