shotgun

A smoothbore gun that fires shells containing pellets, rifled slugs, or other munitions.

Shotguns have short effective range but high close-range destructive power due to the spread of the pellets. Shotguns generally have smoothbore barrels for firing multiple projectiles at once or in quick succession.

Examples

Remington 870

Double-barreled shotgun

Related tags

• double-barreled shotgun
• bullpup
• break action
• lever action
• pump action
• sawed-off shotgun
• underbarrel shotgun

See also

• shotgun speedloader
• List of Weapons

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