"Sawed-off shotgun, hand on the pump"
— Cypress Hill, Hand on The Pump
"Hold it right there, squire. You are privileged to be looking down the barrels of a gold-plated Purdey shotgun. Now as a bank manager, you'll appreciate that any man capable of cutting a gun like that in half wouldn't think twice about cutting you in half."
"What I really need is a shotgun, with a sawed-off barrel and the shells to go with it."
Schlock: I made a matching pair of sawed-off multicannons.
Kevyn: Schlock, the entire length of the barrel is an integral part of a multicannon. Plasma couplings and aperature controls are gone, there's no autotracking... those weapons are now a menace to anything standing within a hundred meters of you.
Schlock: Perfect. I'm going for intimidation value, here.
Kevyn: I'd be more comfortable if you strapped grenades to your chest.
Schlock: Sounds like I cut the barrel in just the right place, then.
Kevyn: Schlock, the entire length of the barrel is an integral part of a multicannon. Plasma couplings and aperature controls are gone, there's no autotracking... those weapons are now a menace to anything standing within a hundred meters of you.
Schlock: Perfect. I'm going for intimidation value, here.
Kevyn: I'd be more comfortable if you strapped grenades to your chest.
Schlock: Sounds like I cut the barrel in just the right place, then.
You take a shotgun and cut it in half. You're left with a light handcannon that handles like a large pistol and has the stopping power of an 18-wheeler loaded with watermelons. A true classic.
Surrounded by walls of law volumes—the leather-bound two-hundred-year history of the world's most successful experiment in justice—Floyd Jefferson put the hacksaw to the shotgun and, as fast as he was able, sawed off the barrel to fourteen inches.
— Able Team #7: Justice by Fire
