That's an interesting story. You could make the case that those 14 rounds of 22LR are more powerful than 14 pellets from a shotgun, but most would say that a shotgun would incapacitate much faster.Excaliber wrote:
Many of those who survive the initial perforations from this round eventually die of infection due to the germ laden material carried all along the wound path by the molten lube these bullets are coated with.
From a defensive standpoint, the problem with it is that little holes bleed slowly and folks who need to be stopped right now end up stopping later than a defender can afford.
In one case I saw, a defender fired 14 rounds of .22LR from a rifle into his attacker's torso from across the room distance. He did achieve a stop and the attacker fell at his feet just before he could do damage, but he was pretty shaken up that so many shots had so little initial effect.
I suppose it's the spread of the shots. Those 14 wounds were probably all inches apart from each other, where as, the shotgun wounds would basically be all one big wound.