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Definitions of shotguns in various dictionaries:
noun - firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges
verb - to shoot with a type of gun
SHOTGUNS - A shotgun (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...
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| Weapons at some weddings? |
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| Hatfield-McCoy arsenal |
| Double-barrelled weapons |
| Firearms |
| Weapons commanders in East deployed around vital centre |
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| In 2004, the National Firearms Museum opened an exhibit on these, highlighting their use in skeet & trapshooting |
| Marlin Firearms of North Haven, Connecticut manufactures these in 12 & 20 gauge varieties |
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A shotgun (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. 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. * A shotgun was originally a smoothbore firearm, which means that the inside of the barrel is not rifled but later rifled shotgun barrels and slugs become available. Preceding smoothbore firearms, such as the musket, were widely used by armies in the 18th century. The direct ancestor to the shotgun, the blunderbuss, was also used in a similar variety of roles from self-defense to riot control. It was often used |