The FBI released a few seconds…. and they are telling:
So Alexis had a Remington 870 with a pistol grip. Still how did he smuggle the damn thing in? If he took it apart, that itty-bitty bag does not look like it has the length to hold the barrel and it looks limp. Maybe attached to his body somewhere?
It also looks like he filled his pants pockets with shells. I notice a bit of a bulge on both sides. “TV-Trained” in the weapon’s handling. He might have been familiar with the shotgun and shot it before, but does not look like he had any serious training.
Anybody who thinks a shotgun is not a powerful and valid defense weapon, needs to have his head examined.
What kind of idiot would ever claim that a shotgun is not a powerful and perfectly valid weapon? If we assume that most people get their opinions from experience, movies, or video games, all 3 of those have the consensus that a shotgun is an absurdly powerful close-range weapon. The two fictional examples may actually overplay a shotgun’s effectiveness, given how damage in games is calculated.
some within the cult of the M4 Church (and other religions with rifles) consider the shottie as an obsolete weapon.