I don't believe you can, but there might be a DIY on YouTube.Over here you could not buy the shotgun shells ... can you make shotgun shells?
They cost a fortune. If you are a hunter, it might be the most practical thing to do, but if you're thinking about home defense, a zip gun would be fine.Just buy a gun.
You are talking to a guy who woke up to an early morning intruder in his house. It was only good luck that the guy wasn't a killer, though he was wacked out on drugs.Get a water pistol and fill it with lemon juice if you want protection...and if you feel protection is teally needed get a hand gun and wear it on your hip.
Spend your smoke money on guns and locks maybe if you are really worried.
Alex
True. I generally haven't a passion for guns. The last one I owned leaned against the wall in my closet for years before I sold it. I never thought there was an honest need for one until one morning I found myself holding a table lamp and was walking into my kitchen to confront an intruder.Only in America, or maybe in parts of central Africa, can such a dystopian precaution be seriously needed.
In my travels in America (USA) ,over a period of no more than six months over 40 years ago I was physically threatened in different circumstances and with varying degrees of directness on 3 separate occasions with a gun and once verbally
...and only in America would one wish to have a gun in such a situation....True. I generally haven't a passion for guns. The last one I owned leaned against the wall in my closet for years before I sold it. I never thought there was an honest need for one until one morning I found myself holding a table lamp and was walking into my kitchen to confront an intruder.
Yes, that is a possibility. Life is dangerous...on rare occasions....and only in America would one wish to have a gun in such a situation....
....because the intruder, er, might have a gun......
And on and on it goes.
I accept that as a possible explanation.Seriously?
I've lived in this country for 70 odd years including in inner cities and have never had that experience.
You must have a strange attraction for the peculiarly violent loonies out there.
Less smokes more locks.You are talking to a guy who woke up to an early morning intruder in his house. It was only good luck that the guy wasn't a killer, though he was wacked out on drugs.
fire arms for self defense in the home only work when 2 things are pre existingThey cost a fortune. If you are a hunter, it might be the most practical thing to do, but if you're thinking about home defense, a zip gun would be fine.
Recently kids were making a sport of kicking in locked doors then running away. The only value of a locked door is that you will hear the intruder crashing through your door.Less smokes more locks.
It would depend on the evolution of the moment, my assessment of the threat.Would you have shot him if you had a zip gun?
Our dog is a great barker, but the home defense would fall on me.What about getting a dog?
Finding a drug induced intruder in your kitchen is no small event.Try not to let one small event upset you too much.
In Montana once I had a bartender threaten to shoot me. She wouldn't even show me her gun but I don't doubt that she had one under the bar. On the same trip, I saw a sheriff - it might have been Jackie Gleason - with a howitzer on his hip. Biggest gun I ever saw. I wonder how he could walk with it, much less shoot straight.In my travels in America (USA) ,over a period of no more than six months over 40 years ago I was physically threatened in different circumstances and with varying degrees of directness on 3 separate occasions with a gun and once verbally with dispatch into the Boston river by my boss when I disagreed with his policy of pay by drip installments.(his weapon on choice being a length of rubber hosing).
I also met a man who gave me a 36 hour lift lift who told me the purpose of his trip was to kill his horse so as not to allow it to become the property of his wife (or ex-wife ;can't remember)
On my return to Europe it felt like a return to civilization but I am no longer so sure.
And what would you have done? Shoot him dead?Finding a drug induced intruder in your kitchen is no small event.
... the guy wasn't a killer...
Yes. Security 101:The only value of a locked door is that you will hear the intruder crashing through your door.
I wouldn't want his death on my mind, no. Again, the evolution of the moment would determine the outcome.And what would you have done? Shoot him dead?
As you said: