Oh forgot. What is a tactical rifle you ask Girodin. It is a select fire or semiautomatic center fire rifle originally designed to kill humans. As opposed to a hunting rifle (kills innocent animals), or a target rifle (kills time and money). For more info refer to mayor Bloomberg or Ted Nugent, your choice.
I'm sorry but even the earliest firearms were themselves originally designed to kill other humans in battle.
The bolt action and lever action rifles we now consider classic hunting rifles were both originally designed as combat rifles. The lever action was designed to provide a firepower advantage to Union infantry in The War Between The States, or the American Civil War as some prefer to call it.
Almost all modern bolt action rifles trace their heritage to the Mauser rifles of 1896 and 1898. Those rifles armed both sides of combatants in both World Wars.
What you call a target rifle is nothing more than a bolt action rifle or semi automatic rifle with precision aperture sights or a telescopic sight. Mayor Bloomberg, the Brady Campaign, and other anti gun groups would call them sniper rifles.
You also seem to have a love affair with pump shotguns. Those are totally banned in Australia as "Riot Guns". An 18" bbl pump shotgun with buckshot or slugs is as equally well suited to harvesting large game as it is for defending against fellow men who desire to do you harm. The same shotgun with a change in ammo becomes a worthy dove gun. With another ammo change and a choke tube change it becomes a turkey gun.
The distinction of so called sporting firearms and so called non-sporting firearms is a fallacy. There is no difference.
Yep. You are plenty secure with your namesake. My hair is still smoking from being flamed by web experts for saying that.
NO!
No one has said a pump shotgun is a
bad choice for HD. Several of us have given factual reasons that a 5.56 NATO or similar intermediate cartridge rifle or carbine is a
better choice than a shotgun for HD.
No one has flamed either. We have simply countered your ignorant assertion that an AR-15 or similar rifle is not a good choice for home defense. We have presented you with empirical evidence to support our view, and you refuse to accept it. We are not "web experts" either. Most if not all of us are either combat veterans or civilian shooters who have taken time out of our personal lives to learn what the best defensive firearms are and train with them. Why is this so difficult for you to understand?