laststandonzombieisland

So your country has a reputation for traveling to exotic foreign lands and taking them over as part of your growing worldwide empire. In said new lands, you still need to arm the locals to keep the criminal element in check (much cheaper than providing a police force) but at the same time, you don’t want to give them modern military grade weapons that could be used against your own troops if things got real. This has happened in history many times but in this case, the colonial power in question was the British Empire and the gun that was the product of this was the Greener Police Shotgun.

It’s an odd gun, with an odder history, but if you find one makes a nice collectable (and a symbol of engineered gun control).

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