Oh, and two or three loads of birdshot is not 60 shotgun blasts.
Yeah, that looks like a couple #8 quail/dove shot from some beered-up good old boy. Only a gerbalist could see “60 shotgun blasts”.
IN any event, they’re only heathens so who cares.
I was amused by that. I’m not sure this journalist knows what a shotgun is. He might guess it’s some form of pump action AK-47 semi-automatic Glock assault rifle, but beyond that he would be stumped.