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Originally Posted by PhilB
Gun shows vary widely. I've always found them enjoyable, and sometimes worthwhile. You can often get good deals on ammo at them. Go to one and check everything out, have some fun. Maybe you'll find a good deal, maybe you won't, but at least you'll get a baseline on what's available and what the going rates are for things, and come out knowing more than when you went in.
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Hopefully I'll have a free weekend to go redneckin' with D
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+1! It's all cool in the movies, but entering a potentially dangerous situation with a weapon that is not ready to fire is really stupid.
Seriously, this is a really bad approach. Of course you're hoping not to use it, but if you have to use it you'd better be ready to use it. Bluffing with guns is very bad. Entering a gunfight with an unreadied gun is foolish. You can damn well bet that when a SWAT team enters a building to clear it out, their shotguns are ready to fire; they're not waiting to "rack" them in the building to scare out any bad guys. If the bad guy is armed, then giving away your position for a sound effect could be fatal. If you want the sound that badly, put a file of it on your i-pod and hook it into the stereo before bed each night; you can play the scary sound while standing silently with your readied weapon -- best of both worlds.
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Well, the SWAT team isn't trying to scare em out. An M500 has 5-8 rounds. Minus one isn't going to hurt me much. If dude ain't dead in 4-7 rounds, I think I'm pretty fucked even if I had one more.
Beyond that, I certainly don't want to keep one in the chamber. In fact, it probably won't even be loaded. Thankfully if someone invades my property, I have plenty of time to get to where the firearms will be stored, and pop a few rounds in it. With the dog in the way, it's entirely possible to have up to a minute. Worst case scenario, I have 14 seconds from front door to bedroom closet. I can always train to get up, get the gun, and load 4 rounds in 14 seconds.
The strategy is as much as having the alarm - 2-3 minute response times isn't going to save my ass. But just HAVING the alarm (and the sign outside) should deter most would-be baddies. Just as the sound of the action should deter most ballsy ones that ignore the alarm and shoot the dog.
With, of course, the exception of mindless, brain-eating ghouls.
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OTOH, if you're defending the building against zombies, and want to take them out while they're still climbing the fences of the yard, a good shotgun is definitely the way to go. In that case, R1100S-Rider's recommendation tois the answer. 12 gauge, magazine-fed, semi-auto, based on the ultra-reliable AK-47 type action -- can't go wrong there! 
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Come to think of it, a pre-ban AK and SPAS12 might be in order.