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For when you need to shoot four guys who are standing equally spaced
Say your prayers Weezer
smooth bore though, so who knows if you'll hit literally any of them
Evenly spaced and no more than 4 feet away.
I think these were intended for ship captains as a last resort against mutineers.
More about threatening a crowd than actual marksmanship.
I just visited a historical battleship museum and at the small arms locker they had a list of all the dozens of pistols, rifles, light machine guns, and so forth they had on board... and also three or four short-barreled shotguns that a contemporary crewman account affectionately referred to as "mutiny guns."
Oh, hey! Same one Mechagodzilla uses!
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2024
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