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Originally posted by Ralvek
Just a little digression...during WWI Germany tried to get the shotgun outlawed because they said it was inhumane...I guess they didn't like the fact that American soldiers were using them as the perfect trench-clearing weapon.
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As far as I know, it wasn't so much the fact that it was a shotgun, but the fact that it was pretty much an automatic shotgun that was so annoying. The so-called "trench gun" had a simple shoot-load-shoot-load (-etc) mechanism that allowed it's user to keep firing on the move. There are reports of soldiers being executed if they were found with such weapons on them.
Then again, some German troops captured with a knife/saw combo were subjected to rather harsh treatment by their allied captors, because there was a rumor that such tools were designed to inflict the nastiest wounds possible, instead of being designed as simple multi-purpose tools...
carry on...