11th April 2007, 6:45 PM
Not to mention, all too often, the whole "they fly back about a million miles" thing shotguns tend to do. I will give the possibility that a shotgun can be super powered to the point where that actually happens, but unless the person is firing it while it is attached, braced if you will, by a solid concrete barrier, I'd be surprised to not see some major damage in an equal and opposite direction.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)