I am against any auto-loaders until a kid has quite a bit of trigger time behind them. They shoot something and want to run to it... with a pump they likely forgot to work the action, but if they did the safety is almost automatic. With a semi-auto they pull the trigger and it returns to hot before they think about anything...
And that goes for all semi-autos of any time. Once they have the trigger time many gravitate to the semi-autos and all is good.
