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Interesting study of shotgun ammo for self-defense

Right here. It concludes that for most purposes the best load is No. 1 plated buckshot.

I haven't been blogging much since, well -- week of April 9 I was in California for my niece's wedding, week of April 16 I was in Carbondale Illinois for a 2A symposium at Southern Illinois University, week of April 23 I was in St. Louis to present on the Dred Scott case, and this week I'll be in Dallas for the NRA convention. THEN I can finally stay off planes for months!

The trip back from Carbondale was the roughest. It's 105 miles from the nearest big airport (St. Louis), and the hotel staff gave me bad directions. I wound up on a "highway" that was a two-lane farm road, with towns and 25 mph speed limits and stop signs and big farm machinery being moved at 5 mph. I got to the airport and checked in at the American Airlines machine, just about half an hour before takeoff, with no checked baggage. The machine rejected me -- I'd barely missed the 30 minute in advance limit. I was given stand-by on another flight later. I got to the gate, noticed another flight was about halfway thru boarding, and wandered off to grab a soda and a magazine and see what was going on. I came back and realized the flight was the original one I'd been booked on! I asked if I could get on, but they were just closing the cabin door. So I could easily have boarded despite the machine deciding I had missed the "boarding window"!As it was, I got back home eight hours after my original arrival time, having spent some 14 hours in the air or in airports. I've always favored American Airlines, but now must re-think things a bit.