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This is generally my preferred set-up as well, although I would sub out the 5.56 for .300 AAC.There are lots of variables.
Like in most Blue states, shooting and only wounding a Home Invader could = him suing you and maybe winning, while he's in prison. Birdshot is probably not enough. It looks scary as shit blasting through water jugs & plywood, but will it really stop someone on drugs, etc. I wouldn't want to get shot in the face with a pellet gun neither, but it doesn't mean that it's the best choice of weapon. 00 buckshots will kill but may keep going through many walls killing other people when missed. You're slinging like 9 pellets with each being the size of a 9mm round and it's coming out of a long barrel.
I would sooner go with an AR-15 w/hollow points than a shotgun with 00 when in the suburbs. But a 9mm with good hollow points would be my choice.
Shotguns may very easily require follow-up shots that are harder to take because it's a shotgun, while something on the AR platform will be much easier. A 9mm would work very well also, but that implies that you can actually take accurate shots with a pistol on a moving dinner-plate-sized target from across a room