"I agree with you all that the Judge is useless beyond 10 or 15 feet. I think it's more of home defense weapon that would be more effective than a shotgun. A shotgun is hard to maneuver around in a house/apartment due to the long barrel. The Judge is much more compact and has the same scatter effect. My father bought one for this reason. I have no doubt it will fatally take down whoever breaks into their house. "

"Like a pistol AR15, traits of both but good at neither."

"If someone's carjacking me, can I just used a .38 instead?"

"The idea was to put something like #4 shot in it and just hose the person in the face. It may not kill them, but I promise they won't be having a great day either.

My major issue at first was that the Original judge only held 2.5" .410 shells, so the maximum size shot was 000 buck with only 3 pellets per round. This was remedied later with the Judge Magnum Edition, which can handle 3" shells, but still that's only 5 pellets of 000 shot."

"Really? I guess it would depend on the size house a person would have, but I'm pretty sure a shot to even the stomach would put a person down. Maybe they'd be alive but I doubt they could get back up again without being in serious discomfort. "