• justdaveisfine@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    I’m no expert but as I understand it, a longer barrel adds more velocity/pressure to a firearm. Cutting a barrel that short would probably put the velocity in the range of ‘kind of sucks’.

    • Delphia@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      Absolutely. They are stickup weapons, you pull them on someone on the other side of a register. The dude behind the counter will still shit himself.

    • Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      23 hours ago

      It decreases the need for accuracy when used with shot. In a longer barrel, the shot will expand in a relatively small cone. Coming out of a short barrel, everything in the general vicinity in front of you will get little damaging pieces embedded all over their body.

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        23 hours ago

        Without much velocity/pressure from the barrel, the pellets are only getting propelled from the primer alone. This short would throw the pellets in a wide area but it would likely be Nerf gun ranges.

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          8 hours ago

          This is true, but as most self defense people will tell you, it only takes a small hole in another person to stop them worrying about much more than “oh damn that dude just shot me”.

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      22 hours ago

      You’re spot on. Also, the spread would be stupid. You’d be lucky to land a single pellet on me at 15’.

      SOURCE: Have dozen shotguns.