Rethinking the best home defense weapons: a look at the .22

[Midnitemo]

in a 2 up 2 down how do you come down the stairs and enter either the kitchen or the parlour without the muzzle arriving 10 minutes before you...some body could grab it and disarm you while you were still on the usually very narrow , steep and enclosed stairs?

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that's an example of unwieldy.