Talk:Riot gun

message: The term 'riot gun' is more commonly used to denote a police or combat shotgun, designed for heavy firepower, especially useful against groups of people given their typical cylinder bore (no constriction of the barrel) barrels which cause maximum dispersion of the shot load.
The device pictured here is one of a number of crowd or riot control devices, not strictly a 'riot gun' in its common meaning.
Ithaca, Winchester, Remington, Mossberg and several other companies make combat and riot shotguns which have often been supplied in great numbers to standard units of police forces due to their relatively low cost as compared to higher-end combat shotguns like Bennelli or Beretta.
This entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_shotgun is more accurate, and the'riot gun' entry should simply be a referenced different version of this entry, 'gun' being short for 'shotgun' in this instance.
*Strongly agree with merging these two articles; my impression is that the "Riot Shotgun" article is more informative but has less technical detail - can someone with more expertise on the topic try to collate them? --HAdG (talk) 00:54, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: * Barrel length has no effect on patterns.  Choke determines the spread.  Barrel length only affects velocity.  68.75.171.218 02:46, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Barrel Length

message: *Removed the image, due to the fact that it was very poorly made, and looked way too cartoony. 68.98.50.49 07:44, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What is with the crappy image? Looks like something my kid would draw in school. Fatekeeper (talk) 17:36, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Image in lede

message: I work in law enforcement. We stopped calling these "non-lethal" weapons about a decade ago. A "non-lethal" round fired from a 37mm or 40mm launcher to the head, spine or kidneys can instantly kill a person. A better term, the term that we now presently use, is "less-lethal".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.188.200.200 (talk) 07:02, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Non-lethal" 

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message: To add to this article: the general range of velocity of a riot gun when firing a tear gas canister. Why is this basic information not already contained in this article? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 11:53, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: To add to article