Any firearm here is going to be very expensive to purchase. Pistols are expensive to purchase and to keep.Agreed.. You could try loading beanbag rounds in the shotgun.Two questions on this. Why? And where would you buy such ammo if you wanted it here in the DR? Non leathal and gets the job done. If someone is attacking you, getting the job done is killing that person. I would however have the 38 tucked in close just in case the beanbags didn't make the intruder run away. That means you have to get both a shotgun license, which has been perpetual here AND and pistol license which needs to be renewed each and every year complete with drug test and a trip to Santo Domingo for an annual ballistics check.
If I have a weapon here, it will be loaded only with lethal rounds.