As you enter the shop, you immediately marvel at the sheer amount of shotguns present in the store, ranging from the smallest to the largest cannon you've thought imaginable. They rack the walls and fill the display cabinets, and what wall space isn't covered with a shogun is crammed with ammunition, from the ordinary buckshot and slug rounds, to the more exotic, like the new Dragons Breath flame round.

Behind the counter is the shopkeeper, a middle-aged man with a goatee and arm muscles that look bigger than a large tree trunk. Behind him in the back room are, you notice at least two other people, probably staring at you through the security cameras. The shopkeeper stops polishing the automatic shotgun that he's cradling, looks at you and smiles.

"Good day sir, and what'll it be for you today?"

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Shotguns. Always a favourite weapon, but somehow sadly missing from the basic starter sets. Well, I aim to rectify that omission!

Shotguns come in a wide variety of types, and each of them can support a vast quantity of ammunition. Whilst there are many types of shotgun, they can be broadly broken down into three main categories - Light (16-20 gauge), Medium (12 gauge) and Heavy (10 gauge). Basic cost and weights are as follows, but notice that damage and to-hit numbers depend on the ammunition loaded into the weapon. Modern shotguns are rarely pump-action these days, but instead are magazine feed, and from a distance can be mistaken for assault rifles.

	Hands	Cost	Shots	Ammo Cost	Loaded Cost	Weight
Light Shotgun	2	$75	10	$1	$85	6 lbs.
Light Double-Barrelled Shotgun	2	$120	10	$1	$130	9 lbs.
Medium Shotgun	2	$120	10	$1	$130	8 lbs.
Medium Double-Barrelled Shotgun	2	$200	10	$1	$210	12 lbs.
Heavy Shotgun	2	$200	5	$2	$210	12 lbs.

Double-Barrelled Shotguns:
Double-barrelled shotguns are ones which have two barrels, either one above the other, or side by side. DB shotguns are unique in that they may be fired twice when the character makes takes his firing action, but both shots must be taken together and must be fired at the same target. Roll to hit for each shot, each taking up one shot of ammunition.

Sawn-Off Shotguns:
Sawn-off shotguns are available for all shotgun types, save the heavy shotgun. A sawn-off shotgun is usually a custom design rather than a factory option as it represents an attempt to shorten the barrel for concealment or close quarters action. There is no price difference.
A sawn-off shotgun only has two thirds the range of a normal shotgun (round down), three-quarters the weight of a normal shotgun (round down to the nearest half pound) and when using Buckshot and Birdshot rounds (not slugs or other single shot ammunition options) has a +1 to the To-Hit roll, making them easier to hit with

Ammunition:
There is a plethora of ammunition options available to shotguns, and these are summarised in the following table.

			Shotgun type Damage
	Ammo Cost	To-Hit	Light	Medium	Heavy	Maximum Range
Buckshot	x1	9	1 hit*	2 hits*	3 hits*	30"
Magnum Buckshot	x5	9	NA	3 hits*	4 hits*	30"
Tungsten Core Buckshot	x5	9	NA	2 hits*	3 hits*	45"
Birdshot	x1	10	1 hit*	2 hits*	3 hits*	20"
Solid Slug	x5	8	1d2*	1d3+1*	1d6*	45"
Incendiary Slug	x10	8	NA	1d3*I	1d3+2*I	45"
Sabot Slug	x10	8	NA	1d3*	1d6-1*	60"
Dragons Breath	x15	9	NA	1d3*I	1d6*I	20"
Flechettes	x10	9	NA	2 hits*	3 hits*	60"
Mini-grenade	$25*P	7	NA	1d6**	1d6**	45"
Mini-missile	x100	8	NA	1d6	1d6+2	60"
Smoke	$50*P	7	NA	special	special	45"

NE	The round is not available for this type of shotgun.
*	Affects no part of a vehicle except tyres.
*I	Affects no part of a vehicle except tyres, but it does Incendiary damage.
*P	The cost of this round is as listed, as is the same for all shotgun types.
**	Damage is halved against any part of a vehicle, except the tyres.

Other rounds are available for shotguns, including Flash rounds, Sonic rounds, gas rounds flares, rubber buckshot and rubber slug rounds. Rules for these will be made available as soon as they are needed.

Ammunition for a shotgun may be mixed in the magazine, but if a character carries a mixed load shotgun, then the order in which the ammunition will be fired must be recorded and may not be changed during the game. The only way to change this is to remove the clip and re-order the ammunition - which will usually take a couple of minutes, usually more time than will be available - or to get a Rotary Magazine.

Rotary Magazine:
A rotary magazine is a special magazine for shotguns which allows the character to choose which round of ammunition they wish to fire. Effectively, the magazine is like a giant revolver, and the ammunition inside is revolved until the specified round is in the chamber. Selecting the ammunition does not take a firing action and thus a character may fire any round of ammunition they like from their magazine whenever they fire the weapon.
A rotary magazine costs an additional $50 and is not available for double-barrelled shotguns.