The direct ancestor to the shotgun, the blunderbuss, was also used in a similar variety of roles from self-defense to riot control. Preceding smoothbore firearms, such as the musket, were widely used by armies in the 18th century. Shotguns come in a wide variety of sizes, ranging from 5.5 mm (.22 inch) bore up to 5 cm (2.0 in) bore, and in a range of firearm operating mechanisms, including breech loading, single-barreled, double or combination gun, pump-action, bolt-, and lever-action, semi-automatic, and even fully automatic variants.Ī shotgun is generally a smoothbore firearm, which means that the inside of the barrel is not rifled. A shotgun(Buy Remington 887 Nitro Shotguns-Buy Darknet Guns-Buy Shotguns) (also known as a scattergun, or historically as a fowling piece) is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug.
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