Shotgun/Talk

Areas where this article is still weak:

• History of the shotgun
• police/military use of shotguns (I don't think any armies use them, but don't some SWAT teams use them for urban assault)?

 I seem to recall that the US Coast Guard uses them -do they have a naval use? --rmhermen

• "sawnoff" shotguns?

--Robert Merkel

From http://www.hecklerkoch-usa.com/Pages/news_com_shot.html

12 May 2000: "Designated the M1014 Combat Shotgun, the M1014 is a gas operated, semi-automatic 12-gauge shotgun designed and manufactured by Benelli for HK, Inc. It is being procured for issue to all of the Armed Services, including the US Coast Guard and Special Operations Command, to replace or augment the current inventory of pump-action shotguns."

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