If it only needs to work once... It’s only stupid if it doesn’t work.
Criminals will do ANYTHING to make it easier to hunt their victims.
This is Reason #1 behind our Constitutional protection for the Individual Right to keep and bear Arms.
The logic is sound and inescapable. To deny it is to deny reality.
Which, doesn’t slow gun haters and politicians down one iota btw...
When I was lived in Thailand, the local talent used to make 12 gauge and .410 handguns, I saw a quite a few and they looked pretty good but I would not fire them.
They were single shot break open jobs.
Up country there were a lot of bus hijackings where small groups of Bandits would raid buses and steal what little they could from the locals who were riding the buses out in the middle of the bush and what they used were guns of this nature.