Modified shotgun designed to fire modified shotgun shell ammunition

Abstract

A shotgun which allows its operator to fire modified ammunition rounds as either slug rounds or rounds of shot. The shotgun is modified by the addition of components creating an electric circuit in the shotgun. The modified ammunition rounds contain a modified slug round formed by a plurality of shot pellets held together by an epoxy which disbonds upon the application of an electric current. The operator of the shotgun may choose which type of round to fire by operating a selector switch component installed in the shotgun. The shotgun may include a modification to its trigger in which the trigger acts as the switching mechanism to disbond the epoxy binding the shot pellets in the modified slug round.

1 . A shotgun, comprising:
 a firing trigger used to fire the shotgun;   an electric power source;   a selector switch with a plurality of positions, wherein at least one setting of the selector switch is a first position which causes no electric current to flow from the power source, and at least one setting of the selector switch is a second position which causes an electric current to flow from the power source;   a chamber in which are located a plurality of electrical contacts, the plurality of electrical contacts adapted to make contact with a plurality of points of contact on the hull of a shotgun shell when such a shotgun shell is loaded into the chamber; and   electrically conductive material which forms a circuit comprising the power source, selector switch, and plurality of electrical contacts located in the chamber of the shotgun, the circuit completed when the shotgun shell is loaded into the chamber of the shotgun.