Hollow points jam in all my M1s, for some reason.

I agree a 12 ga is the most effective for burglars etc, but I was speaking to the threads main thrust, which seems to be cheaply built or acquired assault type weapons for civil unrest situations, for example, having a fire fight with your Anthrax-crazed Flesh Eating Zombie neighbor across the street, while not wanting the bullets to travel much further than that, an M1 Carbine would be a good choice.

The reason why I asked the other question is because in Texas they are running Brady checks on guys who pawn weapons, which actaully is not really giving up ownership. The practice is becoming controversial. A lot of times when the pawner goes back to get the gun out if hock, the cops are waiting for them, so its not really a bad thing, but it bothers me that they are doing a background check (and hence entering you and your gun's identity into a federal computer database) when the gun doesn't really change ownership. I was wondering if they were now doing this anytime you drop a gun off at a FFL, repair, consignment, appraisal, whatever. If they can do it for pawns, why not everything else?