I would say well not ideal a 12 gauge shotgun is very easy to train someone to use and there is a minimum of set up and supporting gear and it’s Probably the most reliable low cost weapon
when I went to college I was head of my local university students for concealed carry and dealing with people with break-ins I had have several people ask me what firearm to use and to have me teach them how to use it with a budget of $250-400 (this was 2013-17 btw)
With a pump shotgun the manual of arms is fairly intuitive to teach someone and at home defense distances using a bead sight again it’s pretty intuitive as well because there is only one focal plane to focus on. Within an afternoon and 100 rounds of bird shot I could get someone halfway competent especially if they took some of the time to dry practice.
With someone who is new to guns on an AR ( Or to a lesser extent an AK) just the concept of buying a good optic mounting it , and then getting a good zero can be daunting. And then you have the issue of learning to manipulate the safety and the charging handle ensuring your magazine is fully seated and ammunition selection. There is a lot more time in setting up the gun and training and cost outside of just the purchase of a defensive rifle that a lot of people aren’t really going to follow through on who are not dedicated shooters
Sure I wouldn’t teach people to reload under pressure but with the pump shotgun there was no sites to buy or zero there was no magazines to buy you could use it pretty effectively out of the box with a minimum of maintenance and even the cheapes buck shot you could find for defense inside the home it would be fairly devastating.
The other thing is many of the people that I took out to buy defense of shotguns with got the sporting barrels and ended up shooting clays or hunting which is also nice.
So the shotgun in my mind as a defensive tool is maybe not the most efficient but is a low-cost general purpose every man’s tooso the shotgun in my mind as a defensive tool is maybe not the most efficient but is a low-cost general purpose every man’s tool That will Work very well for most people inside of the United States
when I went to college I was head of my local university students for concealed carry and dealing with people with break-ins I had have several people ask me what firearm to use and to have me teach them how to use it with a budget of $250-400 (this was 2013-17 btw)
With a pump shotgun the manual of arms is fairly intuitive to teach someone and at home defense distances using a bead sight again it’s pretty intuitive as well because there is only one focal plane to focus on. Within an afternoon and 100 rounds of bird shot I could get someone halfway competent especially if they took some of the time to dry practice.
With someone who is new to guns on an AR ( Or to a lesser extent an AK) just the concept of buying a good optic mounting it , and then getting a good zero can be daunting. And then you have the issue of learning to manipulate the safety and the charging handle ensuring your magazine is fully seated and ammunition selection. There is a lot more time in setting up the gun and training and cost outside of just the purchase of a defensive rifle that a lot of people aren’t really going to follow through on who are not dedicated shooters
Sure I wouldn’t teach people to reload under pressure but with the pump shotgun there was no sites to buy or zero there was no magazines to buy you could use it pretty effectively out of the box with a minimum of maintenance and even the cheapes buck shot you could find for defense inside the home it would be fairly devastating.
The other thing is many of the people that I took out to buy defense of shotguns with got the sporting barrels and ended up shooting clays or hunting which is also nice.
So the shotgun in my mind as a defensive tool is maybe not the most efficient but is a low-cost general purpose every man’s tooso the shotgun in my mind as a defensive tool is maybe not the most efficient but is a low-cost general purpose every man’s tool That will Work very well for most people inside of the United States