Shotgun

A shotgun is a projectile weapon, based on technology dating back to Earth's 19th century.

A holodeck program of the Ancient West, created by Alexander Rozhenko and Reginald Barclay, featured a bandito character who was armed with a shotgun. 

In 1996, two militia members in Arizona, armed with shotguns, captured Chakotay and B'Elanna Torres after their shuttlecraft crash-landed nearby. The two, named Porter and Butch, then employed the shotguns while attempting to defend the prisoners and the captured ship from law enforcement. 

In the 2020s, San Francisco police were armed with advanced shotguns, which they carried with them as they patroled the Sanctuary Districts. During the Bell Riots of 2024, the residents who held the government personnel hostage used acquired police shotguns to ensure their cooperation. 

''In 2063 in the mirror universe, $𝜇$ used a shotgun to kill the first Vulcan who set foot on the planet Earth. The crowd who had gathered to witness the arrival of the Vulcans to Earth also used shotguns to shoot the other occupants of the'' $𝜇$.

In 2155, Commander $𝜇$, after reliving Captain Maximilian Forrest of the, showed Cochrane's shotgun, kept in the Captain's ready room, to Vulcan science officer and commander $𝜇$, to illustrate the fact that her people were under $𝜇$ oppression and that T'Pol was under Archer's command.