riotgun

A repeating shotgun, intended for use in suppre ing riots. "The riot-gun, with which United States Marshal Arnold has armed his po e of 200 deputies in Chicago is really a cro between the gatling gun and the French mitrailleuse. It may be defined as a repeating shotgun, but is the most powerful hand arm ever loaded with pow. der and shot. The weapon is of larger bore than the average army rifle, but weighs le . Its magazine has room for six twelve-caliber cartridges. Each cartridge contains three and a half drams of powder and twelve buckshot. Between the shot and the powder are two one eighth-inch compre ed paper wads. The shell of the cartridge is of paper, backed by a rim of bra . Its outward appearance is very much like that of the ordinary shotgun shell, but its surface is thicker and much stronger. The six cartridges may be fired in half as many seconds, thus throwing seventy-two scattering bullets, any of which would inflict a serious wound at eighty yards' distance. The magazine may be reloaded easily within half a minute. It is calculated that with the shot of each cartridge scattering as it is discharged, the gun, in the hands of a fairly accurate shot, is capable of dis abling 150 men to the minute."- New York World , July 6, 1894 .