{"id":8665,"date":"2023-12-10T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/?p=492687"},"modified":"2023-12-10T16:00:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T16:00:43","slug":"why-range-ammunition-is-a-bad-choice-for-your-self-defense-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunbulletin.com\/?p=8665","title":{"rendered":"Why Range Ammunition Is A Bad Choice For Your Self-Defense Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/range-ammo-is-a-terrible-choice-for-self-defense-ammo\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"463\" src=\"https:\/\/gunbulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/why-range-ammunition-is-a-bad-choice-for-your-self-defense-gun-1.jpg\" alt=\"Why Range Ammunition Is A Bad Choice For Your Self-Defense Gun\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin: 0 20px 20px 0;max-width:560px;max-width:100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t use range ammo as self-defense ammo. There are a number of good reasons why it&#8217;s a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>Range ammunition &#8212; meaning full metal jacket or fragmenting ammunition in center fire rifles and pistol, target or bird shot in shotguns &#8212; is a generally poor self-defense ammunition choice. Not that there aren&#8217;t good uses for it (ie the range, the dove field), but ammunition is a tool and you should use the right tool for the job.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/range-ammo-is-a-terrible-choice-for-self-defense-ammo\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Continue reading Why Range Ammunition Is A Bad Choice For Your Self-Defense Gun at The Truth About Guns.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/range-ammo-is-a-terrible-choice-for-self-defense-ammo\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t use range ammo as self-defense ammo. There are a number of good reasons why it&#8217;s a bad idea. Range ammunition &#8212; meaning full metal jacket or fragmenting ammunition in center fire rifles and pistol, target or bird shot in shotguns &#8212; is a generally poor self-defense ammunition choice. Not that there aren&#8217;t good uses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ammo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gunbulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/why-range-ammunition-is-a-bad-choice-for-your-self-defense-gun.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunbulletin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunbulletin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunbulletin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunbulletin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunbulletin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunbulletin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunbulletin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunbulletin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunbulletin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunbulletin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}