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Found this interesting about how the Germans of WWI looked upon the Winchester M-97 'Trench Gun'...
The 1918 Shotgun Protest
The 1918 Shotgun Protest
Charles A. Jones
In the final year of World War I, the United States armed its forces on the Western Front with pump shotguns. Germany wasn’t pleased.
Millions of combatants in World War I were killed by all manner of weapons, including aerial bombs, artillery, bayonets, hand grenades, pistols, revolvers, and rifles. The machine gun, the war’s most prolific killer, slaughtered untold thousands. Poison gas brought its own horrific casualties. Yet only one weapon—the pump shotgun American troops used beginning in 1918—led to a diplomatic protest. Ironically, the protest came from Germany, which during World War I had unleashed on its enemies such instruments of killing as the Zeppelin airship bomber, the Maxim MG-08 machine gun, the Type 93 U-boat, the Big Bertha howitzer, the Paris Gun, and, of course, chlorine gas. (See link above for the rest of the article)