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Firearm instructor here: Shotguns are very much "dealers choice" when it comes to what can go in the barrel. Based on the context of the scene I'd bet he's switching from buckshot (essentially 8-12 pistol caliber bullets thrown in one shot) to what are called "frangible slugs," slugs that are made of a zinc powder in a binding agent. Those slugs are great for breaching, and if they connect with a human they can be devastating, but the binding agent means if they hit, say, drywall, they dump the energy of the slug into the drywall rather than continue through and hurt random people. For one, breaching with buckshot is POSSIBLE but creates new safety issues as you have a bunch of bullets which are each able to be their own ricochet problem. For another, if you use buckshot defensively inside you run into significantly higher chances of overpenetration and hitting someone you didn't intend to in another wall, whereas frangible slugs are designed to stop at whatever they hit and dump their energy into it.
posted 3 months ago in Heat (1995)