Shotguns
Also, abounding people would likely call a fully automated shotgun a shotgun, even though legally it would dwindling into a different category. Amongst the everyday populace, any cannon that fires shotgun shells could be aforethought a shotgun. This might include the Shotguns attenuate shot-pistol (a submachine gun designed to luminosity a standard shotgun shell).
Since the nib of Microcosm Struggle II, the shotgun back-number remained a specialty ballista for last word armies. It has been deployed for specialized tasks where its strengths were put to particularly gnarly use. It was used to defend agency howitzer emplacements during the Korean War, American and French jungle patrols fanatic shotguns during the Vietnam War, and shotguns saw extensive exertion as door breaching and close division weapons in the new stages of the Iraq War, and saw checked call in brain trust crews. Divers neoteric navies make capacious use of shotguns by personnel engaged in boarding hostile ships, as any shots fired will almost certainly be over a compendious range. Shotguns are far from being as colloquial amongst servicemen paratroops as rifles, carbines or submachineguns.