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Originally posted by cj2112
If you are determined to buy a handgun over a shotgun, look at a good quality .357, and load it w/ either black talon rounds (now very difficult to come by) or load it w/ shot-shells (yes they make them for the .357). Shot-shells are loads w/ lots of little bb's and in a situation where you may have to actually shoot someone, the risk of missing is almost nil.
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I disagree completely. Don't use either of these loads! Modern high quality handgun ammunition is just as good as black talon, and it doesn't have a stigma attached to it. Black talon (wrongly) got labeled a cop killer bullet, is now out of production, and is illegal in many states. If you ever shoot someone with a black talon bullet, you open yourself up to all kinds of legal trouble after the fact. Shot shells are useless for self defense. The pellets are way to small to penetrate deep enough to do serious damage. They also spread out so quickly that most of the pellets would end up missing your target anyway.
There is a lot of room for bickering over what handgun ammunition is best for self defense use, but most shooters would probably agree that it would be one of these bullets (situation dependent):
Glaser Safety Slugs/Magsafes--These are frangible to reduce the potential for a bullet to go through a wall and kill your kid.
Hydrashock, Speer Gold Dot, and Corbon all make top not personal defense ammunition. If you don't have to worry about over penetration, you probably want to choose one of these.