[Alaska Wolf]

Across a normal living room, you will be talking a 3 to 4 inch pattern.

As opposed to a maximum of 1/2 inch diameter bullet from a handgun. I like the odds of the shotgun pattern.

[DesertRhino]

Fine, but it’s a huge mistake to think you will “spray”, and that “aiming isn’t needed” and that “there’s no aiming so there’s no need to practice”.

[DesertRhino]

And truth be told, if you fire 7 shots in the dark across our living room with a pistol, you’ll have that same 3 to 4 inch pattern of a shotgun. (if you are good at that moment)

So really, a shotgun across the room gives you the same basic accuracy potential someone with a pistol can achieve anyway.