Gun recommendation for home defense? (Canada)

[azxd]

If only drywall is between you and your neighbors, get a 12ga shotgun loaded with birdshot. A .45 will penetrate through about four or five walls constructed of drywall. If the walls between you are construction blocks, then most anything except high caliber rifles should be safe.

Did you read what I wrote about penetration ?

I used #4 buck to dispatch foxes with as a youngster .And regular #4 to hunt ducks with. Number Four buck would likely be hard to find today , probably have to order it off the net .

#4 buckshot is available all over the place, in my neck of the woods, but I can see how it might be geographically restricted.

Myself,
I chose #1 buck, and do have to order it ... A few more balls, and adequate performance (PENETRATION).
I also live in a considerably different situation than the OP, where I'd be recommending #4 buck, if the decision is to go with a shotgun.

ETA:
http://www.chuckhawks.com/home_defense_shotgun_ammo.htm

 

[oyarde]

Yeah , pretty much , common store shelf in my neck of the woods, excluding turkey loads ,excluding the large steel waterfowl shot slections , which are faster to start with ( and , very expensive , you may be shocked to know what I last spent on a couple of boxes of 3 inch , 12 ga,steel ) , usual selection of shot , slugs would be .410 , slugs , 000 , #6 , #7 1/2 , the nice , new mixture of buck & discs .couple ofvarieties .Twenty ga , slugs , #6 , #7 1/2 , # 8 , 12 ga , 00 , maybe some #1 buck , slugs , maybe some # 4 , then #5 , #6 , # 7 1/2 , #8 , maybe some #9 , maybe some CCI #12 in .22. Sixteen Ga & 28 Ga , probably not worth listing... I , do like #4 Buck. Has everything, power , penetration, range , more pellets, better pattern due to the additional pellets.

 

[Intoxiklown]

Wow...just read through these.

The ones saying use a shotgun are correct. Use buckshot, not bird shot. Bird shot, even at close range, is just going to make someone VERY angry. If you are not familiar with guns, stay away from pistols. If you think it is impossible to empty a clip at someone 4 feet away and not hit them, you are mistaken. You will NOT miss with a scatter gun with buckshot.

 

[Burrows14]

Been reading over this thread and there's a lot of good advice, but there is something that really needs to be taken into account....CANADIAN law.

In Canada you do not have the right to use more than "reasonable force" and then only in situations in which you believe there is a credible and imminent threat to your life. So be very careful with how much force you use, you WILL be charged with murder if you exceed "reasonable force" which is very subjective and has not been explicitly set out either in legislation or by the courts.

Criminal Code of Canada

34.

(1) Every one who is unlawfully assaulted without having provoked the assault is justified in repelling force by force if the force he uses is not intended to cause death or grievous bodily harm and is no more than is necessary to enable him to defend himself.

(2) Every one who is unlawfully assaulted and who causes death or grievous bodily harm in repelling the assault is justified if
(a) he causes it under reasonable apprehension of death or grievous bodily harm from the violence with which the assault was originally made or with which the assailant pursues his purposes; and
(b) he believes, on reasonable grounds, that he cannot otherwise preserve himself from death or grievous bodily harm.

Man faces jail after protecting home from masked attackers
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/01/20/man-faces-jail-after-protecting-home-from-masked-attackers/

 

[Intoxiklown]

Been reading over this thread and there's a lot of good advice, but there is something that really needs to be taken into account....CANADIAN law.

In Canada you do not have the right to use more than "reasonable force" and then only in situations in which you believe there is a credible and imminent threat to your life. So be very careful with how much force you use, you WILL be charged with murder if you exceed "reasonable force" which is very subjective and has not been explicitly set out either in legislation or by the courts.



Man faces jail after protecting home from masked attackers
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/01/20/man-faces-jail-after-protecting-home-from-masked-attackers/

Then they are better served to buy alrams and sturdy door locks. Because if you have to shoot at someone, you damn sure don't try to shoot nice. If I'm going to have to face a trial, I'd rather the testimoney be from me about why I killed him, than him being alive to tell why I didn't have to shoot him.

I feel my chances of winning my case are better for a murder defense when it's only my word to explain why I killed an intruder, than my case being an aggravated assault and attempted murder case, where the intruder is allowed to give his version.

 

[brushfire]