They Tried to Outlaw Shotguns!

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]All right, Jared, don't be scared. I've got a pretty shocking item for you to look at here. Okay.

[00:00:05]>> Okay. Try not to tremble too much taking this. Wow. Shotgun. 12- gauge shotgun.

[00:00:10]Uh, it is scary, especially if it's pointed at you. Interestingly enough, the Germans during World War I were terrified of shotguns, specifically the Winchester 1897, which would have been a slamfire shotgun, uh, shooting double buck. Highly effective in trench warfare. They actually tried arguing that it caused unnecessary suffering, so it should be unlawful in warfare, which is uh odd considering uh all the other techniques that were used at the time, such as bayonets, machine guns, artillery, flamethrowers, poisonous gas, but yet shotguns is what they had a true issue with. Frontline soldiers just saw the damage that that gun could do and they wanted absolutely nothing to do with it. And so Germany tried arguing this point and they even threatened America saying if we capture any of your soldiers with a shotgun we are executing them right then on the spot. Nothing came from that. The shotguns were and are still used in warfare all across the