Annika finally gets around to posting the results of the numerous polls that have littered her sidebar over the years, including the answer to this one:

Q — If you busted into Annika’s house, what would she most likely shoot you with?

A — The correct answer is Heckler & Koch USP in .45 ACP, not the Sig Sauer 9 mil that 50% of you guessed.

There are only 11 days left in the Annika’s Journal Farewell Tourâ„¢, which is too bad. You can never have enough good looking, smart (she’s about to pass her bar exams), conservative, gun-totting, blondes in the blogosphere.

She’ll be missed when she’s gone.

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Oh, and if you break into our house, you’re most likely to get shot with a Mossberg HS 410 (a .410 pump shotgun), based on this recommendation:

The smallest of the shotgun calibers does seem like an odd choice to those of the “bigger is better” philosophy and it would be an odd choice for a police or military weapon, but it makes perfect sense for a home security shotgun.

A .410 shotgun, at the typical home security distance of near-contact range out to 25 feet, has more short-range stopping power than the vaunted .45 ACP, the .357 Magnum, or the .44 Magnum. The .410 won’t deafen you the way a 12 or 20 gauge shotgun could, not will it have excessive muzzle flash or recoil.

In addition — and this is very important — the .410, loaded with birdshot will not over-penetrate walls as 12 and 20 gauge shotguns typically will. All bullets fired by pistols and rifles (even .22s) will easily over-penetrate multiple layers of sheetrock, going into other rooms or even other homes, potentially wounding or killing someone other than your intended target.