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Gun Control & RKBA

S_B_Jackson

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8. It stopped the man who was sexually assaulting my friend

Reply to Kaleva (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 17, 2016, 11:36 PM

Apr 2016

(now wife). Here roommate came home, heard the commotion in the wife's bedroom and then ran to retrieve the shotgun in her room. Assailant heard the sound of the 12 gauge shotgun's action being racked, stopped his attack and jumped out of the 2nd story window. I guess he didn't want to find out what a load of 00 buckshot fired from 10 feet away felt like.

As for the bedboard hiding place, I vote for "Bad Idea".

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good idea or bad? [View all] gejohnston Apr 2016 OP

I'll pass tortoise1956 Apr 2016 #1

Is there any evidence that loudly racking a pump shotgun deters intruders? Kaleva Apr 2016 #2

I don't know of any actual studies done, gejohnston Apr 2016 #3

I'd bet that if you were breaking into a house ... JustABozoOnThisBus Apr 2016 #4

I have one anecdote tortoise1956 Apr 2016 #6

Some wag in the late 1950s remarked the slice action of a pump shotgun was the most recognizable... Eleanors38 Apr 2016 #10

It stopped the man who was sexually assaulting my friend S_B_Jackson Apr 2016 #8

Totally bad idea. JonathanRackham Apr 2016 #5

It'd be a great place to store the sex toys. Kaleva Apr 2016 #7

i like the way you think beergood Apr 2016 #9