{"id":744,"date":"2006-12-01T11:17:47","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T19:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=744"},"modified":"2006-12-01T11:17:47","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T19:17:47","slug":"the-role-of-the-shotgun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/12\/01\/the-role-of-the-shotgun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of the Shotgun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shotguns are just better for some jobs, like blowing the lock out of a door in Baghdad to gain entry to a suspected terrorist hideout and weapons cache. This soldier stows his assault weapon and uses an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/military\/systems\/ground\/m26.htm\">XM26 12-Gauge Modular Accessory Shotgun System (MASS)<\/a> to gain entry to a building; when the door is &#8220;unlocked,&#8221; this &#8220;locksmith&#8221; falls to the rear of the column of soldiers behind him, retrieves the assault gun, stows the MASS and falls in with the search and confront tactical formation. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0612\/blow-door.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo credit: army.mil.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh &#8211; and God bless these guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shotguns are just better for some jobs, like blowing the lock out of a door in Baghdad to gain entry to a suspected terrorist hideout and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,24,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firearms","category-war-on-terror","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}