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From: jkh@jade.UUCP
Newsgroups: mod.rec.guns
Subject: Re: handgun advice solicited
Message-ID: <2659@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Mon, 2-Mar-87 18:33:21 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  2 18:33:21 1987
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Approved: jkh@ucbjade
Author: pixar!good@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (There are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots.)
Article: 3:2

In-Reply-To: <2597@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>

In article <2597@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> you write:
>
>For serious home defense, the ONLY choice is a shotgun, whether it started
>life as a shotgun or as a handgun that you have loaded with shotshells.
>The reason is, of course, penetration.  Any, repeat ANY, load you can put
>into a handgun that has reasonable probability (for me, that means 99%+)
>of taking out an intruder will also punch right through the walls of any
>normal house or apartment and still have enough energy to kill your
>daughter, the neighbor, or whomever is in that room.  Something like a
>.357 magnum has a distinct possibility of retaining lethal energy after
>punching through several walls.

I really doubt that my .45 Sierra "super-splat" hollow-points will come
through a body, and any decent wall is likely to do them a lot of damage.
Some remnant could come flying through at an uncomfortable velocity, but
it shouldn't be nearly as bad as a "Warning: I don't brake for nobody"
.357 Magnum.


-- 
		--Craig
		...{ucbvax,sun}!pixar!good