[LibWhacker]

and a 38-year-old man was hit in his shoulder as he walked past the double shotgun where Arabian, her mother, her siblings and other relatives lived

They lived in a shotgun? Well, that was a bad idea.

[BBell]

Double Shotgun

Single Shotgun

[Texan5]

At the risk of being pedantic, the “shotgun” referred to is a southern term for a type of house in which the rooms open into one another without a hall, designed for ventilation in our hot summers.

Modified ones here-also called shotgun houses-have a straight breezeway/hall/corridor with rooms opening off it and with doors at either end, also for ventilation. It is a very energy efficient design-the first floor of my house is that type of modified shotgun-they have always been common in rural areas where there is actually a breeze unimpeded by lots of buildings...

Whether it is smart to live in such a house in a shooting gallery neighborhood would depend on whether the doors faced the street or not, I suppose...

[MeshugeMikey]

A “shotgun house” is a narrow rectangular domestic residence, usually no more than 12 feet (3.5 m) wide, with rooms arranged one behind the other and doors at each end of the house.

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