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It's an 8-shot pistol grip Mossberg, 12-gage



If you still have the original stock, my advice is to remove the pistol grip and reinstall the stock if you use this weapon for home defense. Criminal defense lawyers that I know have told me that juries tend to side with defendants who used deadly force to protect their domiciles when the weapons were primarily long arms for hunting. The premise is basically psycho babble. An individual who buys a handgun regardless of caliber for self-defense is motivated by fear and anxiously anticipates killing another individual notwithstanding circumstance. Those lawyer fellas also emphasized the results of wrongful death suits in civil cases where the defendants were found liable even though they weren't convicted in a criminal court. That nonsense is rare in my home state of Texas, but it's not unfamiliar in the larger urban areas like Austin, DFW, Houston and San Antonio regardless of State law authorizing persons to protect their property outside of their homes with deadly force during nighttime.