A shotgun is all you really need for home defense

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67. Everything has its pros and cons.

Shotguns are great and all, but they have a lot of recoil, are harder to make follow up shots with, are more difficult to operate under stress than a semi-automatic handgun or "military grade" semi-automatic rifle, and it's a myth that they "spray" at home defense distances.

In addition, rounds fired from semi-automatic rifles such as the .223 caliber (typical AR-15 caliber) are less likely to over penetrate through walls than shotgun shot, which is another advantage.

Finally: just because you own a semi-automatic rifle does not mean you have a "personal armory" any more than you owning a shotgun means you have a "personal armory"; knives and shotguns are used in the military too; you don't know what people need; usually does not mean always; semi-automatic rifles are the most important weapon used by the militia, which even modern law defines as all males aged 17 to 49.