[pogo101]

Thanks for your suggestions!

[Sir Gawain]

Just pick up your basic Mossberg for $200 and load birdshot if you're afraid kids might get hit by strays, or load buckshot if you don't care to blow holes through your walls.

[linear]

I have a feeling you will get a myriad of replies, but if you are just looking for home defense, I'd get the Remington 870 Express. It's reliable and inexpensive. Get as short a barrel as possible.

Just MHO.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Captain Kangaroo was a Marine in WWII. Get a Mossberg Pump 12 gauge. Put two inches of white tape around the muzzle end of the barrel for low light visibility.

[RadioAstronomer]

I like the Ithaca model 37

[Joe 6-pack]

See either post #3 or #4. Either is quite suitable for your needs and won't break the bank.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

If you don't think you'll get the hang of a pump, find a nice used Browning Auto-5. You'll like the hump on the old Humpback.

[umgud]

Ditto what Sir Gawain said. Better advise: Get out of LA! I live 125 miles from Los Angeles and I've been to New Orleans. After spending time in both locales, I remember thinking to myself that these are not places I want to live if the SHTF.

[Xenophon450]

Well if you want to keep a crowd of 100 looters at bay id reccomend http://world.guns.ru/shotgun/sh10-e.htm ;)

[Graycliff]

Any pump shotgun, i don't care what gauge, as long as it shots when you pull the trigger.

[michigander]

This or something similar.

[RIGHT IN LAS VEGAS]

My SPAS-12 has scared people just looking at it.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

A sleeper has awakened.

12 gauge anything with no. 4 or 5 shot. If for home defense, the shortest length (legal) barrel will suffice, pumps are nice and easy.

[The KG9 Kid]

Benelli M1 Super 90.

Yes, it's more than triple the price of any shotgun that would suit your needs just as well.

Currently legal in California.

[linear]

I'd also recommend putting a skeet choke on it, just to give you that extra little bit of dispersion. At close ranges this won't matter so much though.

[GianniV]

Baretta, Over and Under.

[ßuddaßudd]

A Remington 870 folding stock is in my toy box. Dont forget the 'green meanies' either.

[Eagle Eye]

Mossberg 500 or Remington 870.

Or any shotgun in good condition and at a bargain price at a pawnshop. I've found some er, uh, steals there.

But after what everyone saw on TV this weekend you might want to ge there before everyone else does.

For me, I'm always BLOATed.

[Echo Talon]

I have a Remingtion 870 Express Super Mag. Got it for like $300 new and its pretty nice for trap.

[speed_addiction]

As a convicted felon I can no longer possess any firearm so my home defense depends on the almost 30 years training and experience that I have with this:




What We Are About To Do Here Is What The Good Lord Would Call A Cleansing of the Wicked. I Call It A Good Old Fashioned Texas Ass Kicking.

[Gator101]

Whatever it is, make sure it's a pump action.

The sound of that getting worked is pretty recognizable, even in a darkened house. It will probably scare off an intruder without you having to get blood on your carpet and holes in your walls.