Shotguns Of The U.S. Coast Guard-
- Thread starter Ala Dan
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Apparently they can be pretty heavily armed:
"The Division maintains a variety of weapons which include the: Browning Machine Gun .50 Cal M2; M60 Machine Gun; M16A2 Automatic Rifle; 12 Gauge Riot Shotgun; M9 9mm Service Pistol; and M203 40 mm grenade launcher. "
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/dot/psu.htm
The Riot Shotgun is identified as an M870 later in the story. It doesn't look like a Marine Magnum in this picture though.
"The Division maintains a variety of weapons which include the: Browning Machine Gun .50 Cal M2; M60 Machine Gun; M16A2 Automatic Rifle; 12 Gauge Riot Shotgun; M9 9mm Service Pistol; and M203 40 mm grenade launcher. "
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/dot/psu.htm
The Riot Shotgun is identified as an M870 later in the story. It doesn't look like a Marine Magnum in this picture though.
chris93473
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is that drew carey with a shotgun.
I have a photo of a couple of Coast Guardsmen from the early to mid 1980s conducting a practice intercept/search of a small boat. While one member frisked a cuffed suspect, his partner covered him and kept an eye on another cuffed and seated suspect with a 20" barrelled Remington 870 with a parkerized finish and standard (4+1) magazine and a bead sight.
I had initially thought it to be an Ithaca 37, since the two receivers look similar from the left side, but confirmed it to be a Remington by the characteristic magazine tube cap with sling swivel base in it's center, where the 37 has a lug attached to the underside of the barrel that is in front of its cap and is the base for the sling swivel base.
I had initially thought it to be an Ithaca 37, since the two receivers look similar from the left side, but confirmed it to be a Remington by the characteristic magazine tube cap with sling swivel base in it's center, where the 37 has a lug attached to the underside of the barrel that is in front of its cap and is the base for the sling swivel base.