The weapon is intended to fire cartridges filled with gas to ward off attackers.
They also fired different cartridges from what the U.S. soldiers usually used.
Norris believed the design could be adapted to convert Chassepot needle guns to fire metallic cartridges.
When mounted aboard aircraft, the gun could fire incendiary, armor-piercing, and high-explosive cartridges.
A shotgun fires cartridges loaded with shot that scatters in a pattern and kills or wounds anything in its path.
They used clubs and fired blank cartridges to allow Socialist members to leave the building early on Saturday.
The semiautomatic, which dates from the late 19th century, typically fires cartridges from a magazine that fits in the gun's grip.
The gun used in the series is actually a replica Paterson modified to fire metallic cartridges.
It fires 9x19mm cartridges and it can hold 15 of them.
Ballistic fingerprinting of bullets does not work with firearms such as shotguns that fire shot-containing cartridges.