The robber wore a full camouflage uniform, a black ski mask, and gloves, and wielded a pistol-grip shotgun.

He turned to face a thick-set man holding a pistol-grip shotgun aimed at his midsection.

Bobby clutched the pistol-grip shotgun with both hands, dropping his flashlight without switching it off.

Across him lay a Mossberg 12-gauge, pump-action, pistol-grip shotgun.

As they drove away, Mr. Maher said he saw someone in a trench coat waving a pistol-grip shotgun in the air.

He had sucked on a short-barreled, pump-action, pistol-grip shotgun.

They were met, he said, by Thomas Cirillo, 30, who had the pistol-grip shotgun resting on his hip.

A pistol-grip shotgun is not, by definition, one that you fire with the stock butted against your shoulder.

"It's believed he was despondent and obtained a pistol-grip shotgun," said Alvin Wright, a spokesman for the Houston police.

Guns were stashed throughout the apartment: revolvers, pistols, and two pistol-grip shotguns.