Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct

Please, stop recommending pistols for home defense. Most pistol rounds, even popular hollow points, will penetrate further through common building materials than .223 or 00 buckshot. There's nowhere to mount a proper sight or flashlight (critical for a nighttime defense gun) and only massive revolvers that are unwieldy, heavy, and vastly overpowered for use on human targets approach even half the sight radius of the shortest Title I shotgun (I don't think I have to specify that Title II guns are almost always a bad idea for home defense.)