He brought a sawed-off rifle to the Capitol on Jan. 6. Then he plotted to bomb Amazon data centers.

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36. Only marginally so. The effects of short barreled shotguns are very much exaggerated in films and

literature.

Chopping off the barrel of a shotgun from 24" to 12" merely expands the scattering of the shot to the same degree as if one fired from one foot further away. To describe such a weapon as a "weapon of mass destruction" is, I'm afraid, quite hyperbolic. Such a weapon is, if anything, less effective, since the capacity of the magazine underneath the barrel would be reduced. The only real advantage would be that it would be somewhat concealable.