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\"Dangerously
Minimarts can seem like easy targets for stupid criminals looking for quick cash.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was 0500 on a Monday. The young man who clerked the local minimart was in the back corner of the store straightening up the milk jugs. His partner, a local teenaged girl, was in the restroom. The man walked into the store quietly wearing a long black raincoat. It was both too warm and too dry out for a raincoat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
This particular Quik-Stop was within line of sight to the local military base.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The minimart was located within spitting distance of the front gate of the local Army base. However, this early the PT (Physical Training) crowd was not yet cranked up. The minimart, its associated parking lot, and the surrounding neighborhood had not yet awakened for the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
Properly maintaining a commercial business takes a lot of work. This particular morning the clerk was getting ready for a busy day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There wasn\u2019t a bell on the door, so the clerk arranging the dairy products did not hear the man come in. According to the surveillance video reviewed later the man feigned interest in a magazine long enough to get a feel for the store. He then quietly made his way to the distracted clerk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
A cut-down shotgun is an easily obtained criminal gun in many parts of the world.     <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once within a few feet of his target, the man swept his long black Army-issue raincoat aside to expose a wicked-looking cut-down 12-gauge shotgun. The young clerk still had no idea there was anyone else in the retail portion of the store. The man then calmly rotated the gun up, oriented it on the back of the unsuspecting clerk\u2019s head, and squeezed the trigger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
Things inevitably get frenetic in a robbery. In the heat of the moment bad things happen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The clerk was dead before his body hit the ground. The noise of the heavy short-barreled shotgun discharged within such a confined space must have been deafening. Regardless, the man regained his wits in short order and made his way to the cash register.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
The young lady locked herself in the restroom to ride out the robbery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The teenaged girl heard the gunshot, locked the door to the restroom, and stood atop the toilet. She remained in this position throughout the whole sordid episode. The newly-minted murderer not twenty meters away never knew she was there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
Modern cash registers are fairly tough to breach.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The man, his ears undoubtedly still ringing mightily from the shotgun blast, replaced his shotgun underneath his raincoat and addressed the electronic cash register. He studied the device for a few moments before timidly trying a button or three. Alas, this machine demanded some kind of code to operate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
Our hero had clearly not thought things through.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He had just precipitously retired said code along with the unfortunate young clerk vicinity the refrigerated beer cooler. Just as the man was becoming frustrated the door opened and a local businessman walked in unawares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
The hapless businessman had no idea how lucky he was.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The business guy was obviously an early riser, and he had a habit of picking up a local newspaper at the minimart as he made his lonely way to work. This morning he did not recognize the face of the skinny guy behind the counter, but these teenagers came and went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
The local patron bought his paper just like every other day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He grabbed his paper, smiled, and dropped a quarter on the counter before turning to leave. He never noticed the cooling corpse in the back of the store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
In a pinch a cut-down shotgun makes a passable club.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Stunned, the armed robber-turned-murderer dropped the quarter into his pocket before returning his attention back to the register. Once the business guy was clear of the parking lot he retrieved his shotgun, reversed it, and bashed the keypad with its butt. By now he was getting worried. He was running out of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
At close range little can rival a 12-gauge shotgun for raw power.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In desperation the man hefted his shotgun, jacked the slide, and pointed it at the register. He stroked the trigger and unleashed a charge of birdshot into the machine at near contact range. Shredded keys blew across the store, and the LED display disintegrated. The cash drawer, however, remained closed. In fact, the shotgun blast had effectively peened the thing shut for the rest of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
Once he realized he couldn\u2019t open the register the idiot murderer just ran.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Realizing that this operation was now doomed to failure, the dangerously inept murderer replaced his shotgun underneath his coat and fled the scene. Once a decent period of time passed the young woman carefully peeked out of the restroom. These were the days before cell phones, so she grabbed the store phone and called the cops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gun<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"Dangerously
The British Brown Bess flintlock musket was one of the world\u2019s first effective shotguns.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Dangerously
\u201cBuck and Ball\u201d was a common load consisting of a single musket ball and several individual lead shot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

David Fenimore Cooper was purportedly the first person to use the term \u201cshotgun\u201d in print. British Redcoats were known to charge their Brown Bess muskets with a combination of shot and a standard musket ball to form a \u201cbuck and ball\u201d load. With a barrel diameter of three quarters of an inch, this smoothbore flintlock musket packed an impressive payload. This puts the Brown Bess close to a modern 10-gauge from the perspective of pure geometry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
This Confederate Infantryman is armed with a wicked side-by-side shotgun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The shotgun as we know it really came into its own in the middle of the 19th<\/sup> century. Scatterguns were fairly widely used during the American Civil War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
Doc Holliday used a 10-bore fighting alongside the Earps in Tombstone, Arizona.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Doc Holliday purportedly wielded a short-barreled 10-gauge side-by-side coach gun during the famed gunfight at the OK Corral. Holliday was an Old West legend who was likely responsible for shedding a great deal of blood. However, Tom McLaury that fateful day in Tombstone was supposedly his only historically verified kill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
Shotguns like this Browning Auto-5 are common sporting arms found the world over.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Modern shotguns number in the tens of millions and are found around the globe. The fact that shotguns are commonly used hunting arms typically makes them the last to fall victim to gun bans. However, the determined miscreant can still conjure a superb concealable close-quarters weapon out of your typical sporting scattergun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
The gauge system used to describe shotguns has English origins.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The peculiar gauge system used to identify a shotgun bore is an English contrivance. The number reflects the number of pure lead balls of a certain diameter that make up a pound. Therefore a lead ball that perfectly describes a 12-gauge bore weighs one-twelfth of a pound. That\u2019s the reason smaller numbers mean larger bores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
Shotgun shells come in all shapes and sizes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A theoretical one gauge shotgun would fire a one-pound projectile. This is, incidentally, the same diameter as a golf ball. For whatever reason, a .410 bore is an exception to this rule and is actually 0.410 inches across.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
A cut-down slide-action shotgun is an easy DIY project so long as the proper federal rules are followed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A typical slide action shotgun sporting a pistol grip and a shortened barrel is a devastating close-quarters tool. Longer barrels will always produce superior performance, but the gaping maw of a cut-down 12-bore is invariably attention-getting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
Cutting back a shotgun barrel is easy. I used a cutoff wheel on a table saw for this one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Transforming a typical Remington 870 sporting gun into such a tool requires a hacksaw, a rasp, about 20 minutes, and a total disregard for federal gun control law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
This cut-down 12-gauge side-by-side shotgun is a devastating close-quarters weapon. Recoil is fairly impressive no matter what you load it with.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A side-by-side shotgun also makes an effective and concealable close-quarters gun once properly pruned. I have legally shortened three shotguns by means of a BATF Form 1. Each iteration requires its own $200 transfer tax, fingerprints, and interminable wait, but the transformations can be undertaken easily with simple tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
I turned the front sight down out of the machine screw using a drill press and filled the void between the barrels with JB Weld.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The pistol grip on my side-by-side took a little trial and error, but remounting the front sight beads required nothing more than a drill press, a hand tap, and a little patience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rest of the Story<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"Dangerously
When this young soldier didn\u2019t show up for PT he was declared missing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The shooter was a young enlisted soldier posted to the nearby Army base. Nobody really knows where he went after the shooting but it wasn\u2019t to PT. Once he missed the Monday morning formation he was reported absent, and the military admin wheels began turning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
The TSA and airport security as we know it represent a relatively recent thing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This sordid episode took place in the early nineties, before 911, and airport security was unrecognizable from what it is today. The modest local airport offered regional service to the larger hubs, but you didn\u2019t have to pass through a metal detector to board the plane. That\u2019s hard to imagine today, but it was not unusual back then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
Pre-911 many smaller airports did not have much security at all.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The soldier boarded the airplane with his shotgun tucked inside his carry-on. He changed planes in Dallas and made it aboard the second plane still with his shotgun in tow. By the time the sun set on the day, he had killed his first man, and then he was back home with his mom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
I\u2019m a dad. Unexpected visits from kids are always cause for celebration.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He didn\u2019t bother telling his mother he had blown an innocent man\u2019s head off in a botched robbery that morning. She was just pleased with an unexpected visit. Moms the world over are generally excited to see their kids and might not be inclined to ask too many questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
This is a pretty typical criminal-used short-barreled shotgun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There was still no connection to the shooting, but federal authorities nonetheless made a phone call to the young soldier\u2019s home of record looking for the guy. Once they found out he was there somebody someplace put two and two together. The feds took the idiot kid into custody without a fuss. They seized his illegal shotgun as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
Army Privates are the backbone of the military. However, in my experience they not infrequently exhibited fairly poor judgment. We used to call those spectacles RPGs or BCGs. That\u2019s short for \u201cRape Prevention Glasses\u201d or \u201cBirth Control Glasses.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The motive was simply money. As near as anyone could tell the shooter and the victim had never before met. Army Privates don\u2019t get paid much, and this one had undoubtedly overextended himself. In my experience of supervising such knuckleheads, it likely involved an exorbitant car payment, a cheap girlfriend with expensive tastes, or some overpriced stereo equipment. For such as this an innocent man died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
This rocket scientist ultimately killed a man for a quarter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I lost track of what happened to the murderous idiot soldier. He\u2019s likely still locked up someplace. If rank stupidity was a capital offense he would be at the front of the line to the gallows. Throughout it all his take was a whopping twenty-five cents, and that for a newspaper he nominally sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dangerously
When done properly via a BATF Form 1 a short-barreled shotgun makes an exotic yet relatively inexpensive addition to the seasoned gun collection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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