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The rifle provided an additional way for people to protect themselves. If people were armed during wars, they had weapons that their opponents may not have carried.
Usually lead.
One difference is that the inside of a shotgun barrel is smooth and the inside of a rifle barrel is what they call "fluted" which puts rotation on the bullet as it moves though the barrel.
A rifle was one of the earliest guns. It was first made with ridges on the inside of the barrel that cause the bullets to spin.
A musket is smooth bored, like a shotgun's bore. A rifle has rifling inside the bore (grooves).
A rifle has spiral grooves cut on the inside of the barrel. Those grooves are called rifling. The word rifle comes from the German word that means to groove or cut flutes.