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Originally Posted by jeremyc74
You can shoot from the hip and easily hit a person in a house. Obviously you're not going to do any damage with it pointed completely away from them, but I wouldn't call it "aiming" exactly.
If you pull the trigger on a 12 gauge inside a house, no matter where it's pointed, everyone in the place is going to have a VERY strong desire to GTFO in the fastest way imaginable, and that's really the intended result.
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Aim means to point the weapon at.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aim
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Main Entry: 1aim
Pronunciation: \ˈām\
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French aesmer & esmer; Anglo-French aesmer, from a- (from Latin ad-) + esmer to estimate, from Latin aestimare
Date: 14th century
intransitive verb
1 : to direct a course; specifically : to point a weapon at an object
2 : aspire, intend <aims to reform the government>
transitive verb
1 obsolete : guess, conjecture
2 a : point <aim a gun> b : to direct to or toward a specified object or goal <a program aimed at reducing pollution>
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So to point a shotgun is to aim it. Personally, I'd fire from the shoulder and not the hip, if nothing else because it's tactically easier to move with the weapon forward of the body, it allows you to make yourself a smaller target, and it allows for greater accuracy. Shotguns were designed to be a shoulder fired weapon.