A shotgun (also known as a scattergun and peppergun, or historically as a fowling piece) is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug. Shotguns come in a wide variety of sizes, ranging from 5.5 mm (.22 inch) bore up to 5 cm (2.0 in) bore, and in a range of firearm operating mechanisms, including breech loading, single-barreled, double or combination gun, pump-action, bolt-, and lever-action, semi-automatic, and even fully automatic variants.

The usage of shotguns in multiplayer games is well known to cause severe mental breakdowns, rage and, in some cases, even cancer and severe depression. Another side-effect is being very salty.

Salty
Being angry, agitated, upset.

William Beckett (after a public match): After all of those deaths by shotgun and being teabagged by noobs, I'm a little salty.

YOU ARE ONLY ALLOWED INTO THIS PLATOON IF YOU ARE CRAZY RUSSIAN CHEATER.