To make it easier to hunt birds and small game. Shotguns shoot multiple projectiles that make it easier to hit a moving target.
he invented the shotgun
The black powered gun was first and it shot shotgun slugs but the pistol was the first gun ever invented
John Browning
1620
Jmes wheedleton
John Browning invented the pump shotgun in the year 1897.
chuck Norris
around the time of the revolutionary war.
John Moses Browning. The Browning Superposed was the first practicle over, under shotgun
The Chinese invented gun powder, so, it's not to far of a stretch to think they had some type of "shotgun".
it was the holy grail of 1901
He didnt invent the shotgun, however he invented many different models of shotguns. auto5man