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The shotgun attachment

posted 13 years ago by thebigdipper
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Hello

A smarter person than I can likely answer this question...

What does he attach to the barrel of the automatic shotgun?

Thanks

[–] TufrThanu 13 years ago

It was a metal fixture with a divider of some sort I suppose to make the buckshot spread out more than it normally would have in a regular barrel or even a sawed off barrel.

[–] thebigdipper 13 years ago

Thanks for the reply. Since I posted the question I found out that it's called a "duckbill" (for obvious reasons) and was used in the... Vietnam war?... something to do with hitting moving targets in low visibility. Sounds like a pretty awesome idea, if not a little limited in application.

[–] cableaddict 12 years ago

You're talking about the silver thing he hammered in? That was a noise suppressor.

[–] silverr8c 12 years ago

thebigdipper got it right, it is not a suppressor, also FYI it was a semi auto shotgun. I have seen a full auto shotgun on one of the many TV gun shows but this appeared to be a semi.
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[–] aurolacul2004 12 years ago

It is indeed a semi-auto shotgun, the Armsel Protecta or more commonly known as the "street sweeper", South African in origin.

[–] andrew_zito 12 years ago

[–] the_la_baker 10 years ago

For the final scene, Curtie chooses a SWD/Cobray Street Sweeper to clear Rajahdon’s brothel. He manufactures an unidentified duckbeak-shaped device and affixes it to the barrel. Apart from making the shotgun look like a vacuum cleaner this device seems to make the spray of the shotgun shells wider, allowing him to hit more targets in the confined hallways.

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Elephant_White#SWD.2FCobray_Street_Sweeper