shotgun
smoothbore firearm which can fire one or more projectiles in a single firing
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Summary
shotgun is a weapon type[1]. shotgun ranks in the top 1% of weapon type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,700 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: long gun[3], smoothbore[4], hunting gun[5]
- Commons category: Shotguns[6]
- Topic's main category: Category:Shotguns[7]
- Commons gallery: Shotgun[8]
- Described by source: Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[9], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia[12], Sytin Military Encyclopedia[13], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[14]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[15]
- Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Firearms[16], WikiProject Weaponry[17], Military science, technology, and theory task force[18], WikiProject Military history[19]
- P14470: Objects/Shotgun[20]
- P14870: ont00000015[21]
Why It Matters
shotgun has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] shotgun is known by 91 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]