Okay....good shot he was. What was the caliber?
A once popular six-shooter of modern times was the Ruger Security Six in .38 caliber.
Exterior doors are usually sturdier than interior doors.
I suppose some here would have shot the gun out of the robber’s hand?
Oh wait, that's my gun. Of course the perps rarely get past the Claymores lining the garden path from the alligator-moat.
Dude, who frickin' cares? For homebodies, hittin' the perp is far more important than fashionable big bores and hot rounds. A double-tap from your trusty .32 is way better than a miss from your .44 Magnum, plus the .44 miss is liable to go through the wall and kill the neighbor's pooch..
Good ladies gun? 32 H&R Mag, or 327 Mag. Manageable recoil encourages target practice. BTW, how did the perp know the homeowner was a medical marijuana user? Get me Miss Marple. More here than meets the eye.
BTW, Taos ain't had a good sheriff since Elfego Baca died. He was a Republican. This Romero sounds like your typical affirmmative action nincompoop anchor baby LEO that now infests La Zona de Tolerancia aka the border states.
"At that point, the owner discharged a high-powered rifle through the steel door, striking the intruder six times in the lower extremities."
"High-powered rifle" is an elderly term for a non-rimfire, non-pistol cartridge firing rifle. It could be anything from a .223 to a .45-70. Based on the fact that he ate six rounds and lives I suspect it was a .223.
Somebody needs to get a Garand. Mutants go down and stay down when John Garand talks to them.