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[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Concealment. A sawed off shotgun can be concealed under a suit, making it easy to commit robberies and assassinate. The bugger issue were Thompson sub-machine guns, which were short, fully automatic, and used by people that didn’t care for civilian casualties all that much.