yeah mob was like shooting back with BARs and other shit from WW 2 that came back

BAR was favored since its round tore cars to shit

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Tommy guns

@Vanguard this was in the 20s

You get less velocity, but you get a literal wall of lead

with the tommy gun and such

30s*

yeah but BAR didnt come back in vogue until after war

built so many

and so many came back and hit market

even army didnt adopt bar right away

the spread on a sawed off is not that significantly greater afaik

Is it?

it is

I've never even seen one

army didnt adopt the bar until last possible second

Wouldn't being shot with a normal shotgun close range be just as bad as being shot with a sawed off

the wad comes out earlier

greater spread also means less pellets in a given location, reduces lethality

its about the wad

@Decimus_Pax_Britainnia yes, but less barrel length lets the pellets spread further sooner

@Decimus_Pax_Britainnia it would be worse

you use that ultra close you are basically shooting a fist at someone

it wont actually spread as much

the spread makes it easier to hit someone close up

it doesnt spread all that much

It's a street fighting weapon

it stays in the wad longer

and hurt more people i guess

you can look at slow motion videos of shotguns being fired and see

Not practical in a real fight

its situational

But in a street fight it's deadly

same with combat/breaching shotguns

So it'd go all over you body instead of just spread in a small area of your body

Yeah shotguns are actually really specialized weapons

it doesnt quite go like that

its practical for walking up to someone, pulling it out of your coat, and blasting them from 10 feet away

thats how it was used

Ahh