Shotgun
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A shotgun is a long-barreled firearm designed to shoot a straight-walled cartridge known as a shotshell, which discharges numerous small spherical projectiles called shot, or a single solid projectile
A pump-action Remington 870, two semi-automatic Remington 1100 shotguns, 20 boxes of shotgun shells, a clay trap, and three boxes of clay pigeons
A Confederate cavalryman during the American Civil War
A United States Marine carrying a Winchester M97 shotgun during World War II
A view of the break-action of a side-by-side, and an over-and-under double-barreled shotgun, both shown with the action open
Stock (firearms)
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A gunstock or often simply stock, the back portion of which is also known as a shoulder stock, a buttstock, or simply a butt, is a part of a long gun that provides structural support, to which the bar
An early hand cannon, or gonne, supported by a simple stock
A thumbscrew-adjustable cheek rise
M16A1 cutaway rifle (top) and M16A2 (below) with a "straight-line" stock configuration
Gun stock construction on a lathe from the 1850s (photo c. 2015)