I have been scouring the internet trying to find non-lethal 12Guage shotgun ammunition for home protection. I cannot seem to find anything. I have called my local police station and they have ok'ed having non-lethal ammunition, but no store carries it. I have found one website, but it requires me to be of a law enforcement agency. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks in advance!
2007-02-22 06:31:40 · 9 answers · asked by BogSagget 1 in Sports ➔ Outdoor Recreation ➔ Hunting
Note: I am not looking for something thats a toy. I am looking for something that is an alternative to killing someone for home defense. Air-soft ammunition is not powerful enough to stop someone in their tracks.
2007-02-22 06:40:14 · update #1
You need to stop and do some serious soul-searching my friend.
If you do not have the will to take another human life, which is perfectly OK in my opinion, you have no business with a shotgun for home defense. A shotgun is a lethal weapon. It blows a big hole in what you shoot it at. Period.
Every so often, I examine my own will to take a life in defense of my home and loved ones. Any human with a conscious should do the same. The answer for me is not the answer for you. Everyone needs to examine their own heart on the matter and plan their behavior accordingly.
When I dated my wife, I taught her to shoot well. When we got married and started living together, I made her ask the same question of herself and gave her some time to think about it. Only when she was sure that she would have no hesitation killing an intruder in our home did she get her own pistol. Given a life or death situation, she now knows that she has the skill and the will to empty her weapon and live with it afterwards.
Every gun owner needs to do this.
With all that said and many thanks for bearing with me, there are so-called non-lethal loads for shotguns. You must understand that at 5 yards away, probably the distance down your hallway, that shotgun with the 'non-lethal' round will still probably kill a guy. Read the data and warnings. People are killed with 'blanks' because they don't understand physics.
If that's not something you can live with, keep the shotgun for shooting skeet and don't consider it a home defense weapon.
If someone is doing something that warrants being shot with a bean bag out of a potentially deadly shotgun, they need to be shot with a lethal round and go to the cemetary. That's my opinion, so I would never use a non-lethal round.
2007-02-22 07:10:32 · answer #1 · answered by DJ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's no such thing as non-lethal shotgun ammunition. Beanbags, rubber batons, etc. are considered less-lethal and still constitute deadly force - one of these to the head or chest is certainly capable of killing a person.
If for some reason you don't want to run the risk of killing an intruder, you shouldn't be using a firearm for protection.
2007-02-22 15:47:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't rely on "less-lethal" marginalia like riot-loads and beanbag-rounds to save your life and protect your family. If you're not justified in killing someone, you're not going to be justified in wounding him either. And there have been reports of beanbag rounds killing people through the blunt-force trauma. This would be especially true in the five yards and under range of home-defense shootings. It's much like being hit with a major-league fastball . . . catchers wear that thick, heavy padding for a reason. (People have died after being struck in the head or the chest by baseballs and softballs.)
If you're going to shoot someone in self-defense with your shotgun, then load it properly, and that generally means buckshot (don't load with birdshot, thinking those tiny pellets will reduce lethality. At close enough ranges, birdshot emerges from the muzzle of a shotgun as a deadly column of lead. And at farther ranges, sure it may leave a horrific, but shallow wound . . . but again, if you're not justified killing a man, you're not justified in wounding him either.) If not, then keep it locked up in a quality gun cabinet, or gun safe, or even a high-quality trigger-lock; so if you do end up waking up to an intruder at 2 AM, he won't be able to use it on you.
2007-02-22 15:39:08 · answer #3 · answered by Sam D 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look, for home defense, "non lethal" shotgun ammunition would kill, like what the guys already said.
Beanbags and rubber shot is used for police riot control, not home defense.
Before you decide to use the shotgun for home defense, know what you're doing before you prepare a home defense strategy.
2007-02-22 22:44:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
exotic ammo.com i think try a search for that. they also sell the exploding targets incindiary rounds and a shell that barks a 100 ft shower of molten fire out the barrel, it can't be good for the gun but if someone is in your house and is a threat to your family or your children i would be entertained if you burnt them up on the spot with that thing. armed people are not victims. or if you don't want to kill someone a louisville slugger is 19.95 at kmart
2007-02-25 23:10:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
www.ammunitiontogo.com they do not always stock it but they do sell it. i just picked up rubber slugs and rubber 00 buckshot.$4.95 for a box of 5 the manufacturer is sellier and bellot if this helps. remember this though a dead man tells no tales where an injured one sues the **** out of you and your family
2007-02-22 17:38:44 · answer #6 · answered by ratfog2005 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are several "airsoft" type retailers both online and in the phone book of most major cities.
2007-02-22 14:34:39 · answer #7 · answered by Kerry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well here is what you can do...take your shotgun shells and empty them out.....fill with rock salt...this lodges under the skin and stings like hell...trust me
2007-02-23 10:58:37 · answer #8 · answered by Ty D 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
www.ammoman.com
12ga. less lethal ammo
2007-02-22 14:45:47 · answer #9 · answered by Charles B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋