Quoted: are you kidding me....honestly i hope you live in the country if you're using a 5.56 round for home defense.....you know how many walls that round will penetrate....how many lives you'll endanger....for me it's the good ol 12 ga. or 20 ga. w/ buckshot......in CQB you're gonna need a wide dispersed shot especially in low light/ unaware/ scared conditions...not a small precision shot where you may not even have time to aim thru your a2 sights....jmho
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(1)Ive seen testing where 5.56 M193 and 12 Ga. mag 00 buck were shown to have similar penetration in walls.
(2)Inside of 7 meters (you dont live in a mansion do you? you wont shoot someone farther away then) even my cylinder bore patterns the whole payload inside an area I can cover with the palm of my hand. Since my 12 Ga. holds five shots, compared to 30 in the AK, that means precision is even more important in the 12 Ga. The idea that shotguns are an area effect weapon are a hollywood myth. The idea of "knockdown power" is also a hollywood myth.
So what is the REAL reason shotguns are better for CQB against unarmored targets:
The fact that inside of 25 meters shooting somebody once with what is in my mossberg right now is roughly the same as shooting the son of a bitch nine times with my AK.
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Thus endeth the lesson and misplaced talk of shotguns.