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Charles Gray wrote:

One question-- I thought shotguns were not allowed in combat by the
geneva convention, but allowed for peacekeeping police duties.
Or was that changed since the treaty was made. (Or more likely, am I
misremembering something).

It's the Hague Convention of 1899, not the Geneva Convention.

The relevant passage says (among a lot of other things), that is is
specifically prohibited "To employ arms, projectiles, or material of a
nature to cause superfluous injury." That's been interpreted to include
shotguns. Of course, it was also supposed to prohibit bombing from he
air and using chemical weapons, and we know how well that worked out in
the next 20 years or so.

If it's still in effect, nobody seems to be paying any attention to it,
since pretty much every military in the world uses shotguns.

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