What is the difference between a hand gun and a shot gun?
The length of the barrel. You can’t stick a shot gun in your pocket. Plus a shot gun shoots ‘shot’, which is a bunch of little pellets. This is more desireable to use when shooting game birds, as the likelyhood of shooting a bird down with a single bullet is minimal. The shot spreads itself over an area. A human is far less likely to be killed if it with shot as compared to a bullet from a hand gun. Re: Dick Cheney shoots his buddy. How come I can’t write Dick Cheney but I can write Richard Cheney? LOL. And yet they have no problem when I write George Bush. A hand gun shoots a single bullet at a time.
There are so many misconceptions about firearms, it’s like watching Jay Leno’s man in the street interviews. A handgun is either a revolver or a pistol usually, but not always designed to be held and fired with one hand with a typical max effective range of 25 yards with a rifled barrel which impacts a spin on the projectile stabilizing the flight. A revolver uses a wheel-like cylinder which is separate from the barrel to contain anywhere from 5 to 8 rounds according to caliber and size of the firearm. There are two basic types of revolvers, single action and double action. A pistol is a handgun whose chamber is integral with the barrel. It can be a breech loading single shot, a muzzle-loader or semi-auto. A semi auto pistol uses a magazine to hold anywhere from 5 to 18 rounds. With the exception of specialized hunting handguns, all use ammunition of calibers much smaller than long guns (rifles or shotguns). The rounds for handguns generally contain a single projectile although there a
A handgun is a small gun that is designed to be easy to carry, and fired using one or both hands. Compared to other firearms, they are weak, innacurate, and have short range. A shotgun is a large gun first developed for hunting birds, but with some ammo types can be used to hunt deer or even grizzly bears. It is fired using both hands and has a shoulder stock you brace against the shoulder. The name shotgun comes from one of two major types of shells it can fire, a shotshell, which fires about 100 small lead balls about the size of a bb all at once. The second type of shell fires a ‘slug’ which is a single big ball that fits the barrel. Unlike rifles who also fire one big projectile, a shotgun has a smooth bore, (rifles have rifling) so the projectile doesn’t spin, and is less accurate. It is VERY powerful, but is limited in range.
