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Sadly, these crazy shotguns never made it past the “cool idea in testing” stage, and to be honest, that makes sense.

In the 1980s, Heckler & Koch Tried to Sell the Pentagon This Shotgun The Pentagon decided it needed CAWS after examining the British Army’s experience during the Malayan Emergency and America’s own misfortunes in the Vietnam War. Here's What You Need to Remember: In the end, neither the AAI nor H&K shotgun met expectations. The U.S. military abandoned the Close Assault Weapon System program in the late 1980s. In the early 1980s, the U.S. military wanted a new combat shotgun. The Close Assault Weapon System program aimed to produce an automatic shotgun with greater range and more firepowe...