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8mm/06
A nomal 2 hour firewall will certainly be pierced if you are shooting steel 4's and/or 00buck and shooting at it from close up with nothing between you and the wall. But I thought we were talking about home defense.
In a home defense situation you are unlikely to be 5 feet away from the wall and hit nothing but wall. If you have a loaded gun in your hands and are hoping to use it on an intruder I'd hope you weren't only 5-6 feet away from the perp, cuz that would mean you're TOO CLOSE.
I believe that using the normal home defense loads, the few buckshot that might pass though into an adjacent apartment would not have a whole lot of oomph left.
I still contend the shotgun is a better option than a pistol for trying to keep the shots within your own domicile.
you are counting on hitting the perp with every shot...ya need to be bettin you are gonna miss 100% of the time..ya need to shoot bullets like the ones they use on airplanes. why put the neighbors lives in jeopardy? would ya put your family on the otherside of this guys wall if he has an intruder come in and misses a shot and its headed their way?