12 gauge Shotgun is by far the most deadly in mass shootings. Can’t find it now, but saw a SOF magazine with a breakdown of lethality in spree shootings by weapon type.
Assault rifle was near the bottom. Handguns were far worse, and you don’t want to be there when someone unleashes a shotgun.
just for perspective, in WWI the Germans actually called the doughboys use of pump 12 gauges firing buckshot “inhumane”. They filed a diplomatic protest which we promptly ignored.
But yes, trench warfare, mustard gas, belt fed machine guns in the Somme, the Paris gun, shelling verdun till it was moonscape, unrestricted sinking of passenger ships by Germans, British use of a starvation blockaid against civilians, our digging caverns beneath a enemy and detonating hundreds of tons of explosive beneath them,,,all ok.
But they were horrified by a winchester 97.
“just for perspective, in WWI the Germans actually called the doughboys use of pump 12 gauges firing buckshot “inhumane”. They filed a diplomatic protest which we promptly ignored.”
I’ve never heard of that before. Those krauts start wars and when the tables are turned, start bitching about what they did wrong..
A 3” 12 gauge shotgun shell contains 11 balls (.36 caliber/9mm) of triple ought buck.
Five 3” shells in a pump or semi auto shotgun can unlease 55 balls in a blink of the eye and each one of them capable of killing a human at 50 yards.
As I recall, the Germans in WWI later decided that any doughboy captured while using a shotgun would be summarily executed, though I don't know if they actually carried out that threat.
Mark