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Posted by Hank [64.119.33.94] on Monday, December 28, 2009 at 16:15:05 :
In Reply to: The Penalty For A Trench Gun posted by copey [206.80.247.183] on Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 03:40:33 :
... crying about the use of shotguns in WWI and the Haugue Convention of 1907. Something about simple buckshot really got their goat - nevermind that they were the first to use use poison gas, aerial bombardment, aerial bombardment of civilians, submarine warfare, submarine warfare against civilians, submarine warfare against civilian ocean liners without warning, etc, etc...
Their outrage attracted little sympathy from the rest of the world, then they lost the war. Our military has never renounced the use of shotguns, we use them today, but did restrict their use in WWII to the Pacific theater of war - the reason is open to speculation. The attached a recent-ish Army position statement, which they have to do every time they want to buy some cool new shotgun and some Congressman starts with that whole "they're against the Geneva Convention" thing.
H