Originally Posted by
MPN11
This was the subject of some debate back in the 70s. The suggestion was that Ground Defence personnel, inside the wire, should be armed with shotguns to minimise the risk of collateral damage. Indeed, this was my chosen subject for my presentation on some course or other back then (OJMC, perhaps?). The average airman would be able to snap-shoot accurately with an SLR at anything much smaller than a hangar door
There were 2 articles in Air Clues arguing the point that pump action shotguns would be a lot better than SLRs - one of the reasons being as MPN11 states. author was a rock Sqn Ldr - with a polish surname.