Thread: HDPA does indeed lie about firearms

Originally Posted by Maca49

If the police need firearms it is deadly force they should be using, shotguns would be far more effective, without long range stray projectile flying everywhere as was the case in Hamilton. A twelve gauge barrel is pretty hard to run away from!

Long range stray projectiles flying everywhere? That's the reason shotguns are bad news.

My Rem 870 with a improved cylinder choke won't keep all pellets from a OO buckshot load on a NRA D1 target much past 17m or so. Then one or two start missing the target, simply because of spread.

What happens when one of those nine pellets, fired by a cop, misses the felon and hits a bystander? What happens if the bad guy is 40m away, well outside the effective range of a shotgun?

How would some of those tiny WPCs handle the recoil from a shotgun?

I watched a three gun match at the Rotorua range once. It was interesting to see a number of shooters mix up their ammo to the point some got disqualified.

How would an undertrained cop be expected to get OO buckshot and bean bag rounds loaded in the right order?

Your idea is laughable.