An Electric Shotgun...

[Onomea]

So, article is about a spate of jewelry store robberies in Paris.

...Tuesday’s incident comes after several jewelry stores in Paris were recently robbed. On July 27, a man stole jewelry worth up to $3.5 million from a Chaumet boutique; suspects were arrested the next day, and police said at the time that most of the stolen goods had been recovered.
Three days later, two men armed with an electric shotgun and tear gas seized around $470,000 in goods from a Dinh Van store...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/08/paris-bulgari-jewelry-robbery/

So any ideas as to what the hail an electric shotgun is?

 

[lihpster]

Is it like a sonic screwdriver?

 

[Alk8944]

So, article is about a spate of jewelry store robberies in Paris.

...Tuesday’s incident comes after several jewelry stores in Paris were recently robbed. On July 27, a man stole jewelry worth up to $3.5 million from a Chaumet boutique; suspects were arrested the next day, and police said at the time that most of the stolen goods had been recovered.
Three days later, two men armed with an electric shotgun and tear gas seized around $470,000 in goods from a Dinh Van store...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/08/paris-bulgari-jewelry-robbery/

So any ideas as to what the hail an electric shotgun is?

The word probably originally used by the author of the article is likely ECLECTIC, although what the purpose or intent of using this word would have been in this context. Probably an error when translating from the original French as a result of simply using a spell check suggestion when editing.

 

[Rustyt1953]

The only ones I found were airsoft ones that fire bursts of 3 BB's. I doubt it was these:

Electric Airsoft Shotguns | RedWolf Airsoft

 

[444 Magnum]

It's a .45 caliber mini-gun loaded with .410 shot shells.

 

[llowry61]

Hmmmm, never heard of one of those. Not even gonna take a guess.

 

[desi2358]

Well Remington and a couple other companies experimented with electric primed ammunition a few years ago (basically a scaled down version of some larger military cannon ammo). It got a lot of press for a while then seemed to be abandoned. It would have to be an unusual circumstance for such a weapon to appear among a gang of thieves unless they stole it from a collector... and if they did they would have to steal the ammo too for it to be of any use.

More likely it was simply a case of bad, inaccurate reporting (or a bad translation from french!). Though it is possible, just unlikely that they had somehow gotten a genuine "electric" shotgun............

 

[vt_shooter]

Maybe we can convince the left that it's electric shotguns that are a problem, and get them to direct their energy to banning those.

 

[Jeff423]

I thought I read once that competition trap shooters had experimented with electric triggers several years ago. Even if that's the case I don't think that's what this article refers to.

 

[SPEEDGUNNER]

Maybe we can convince the left that it's electric shotguns that are a problem, and get them to direct their energy to banning those.

"...direct their energy..."

I see what you did there...

 

[Tom K]

Maybe that's a poor translation of tazer, or stun gun?

 

[LVSteve]

I suspect you get "electric shotgun" from "electric stungun" on a noisy cellphone connection.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Always good to find original sources. Here's a report in French from Le Figaro:

Le braquage a eu lieu aux alentours de 12h30, dans la bijouterie Dinh Van, par deux individus munis d'une arme de poing, d'une bombe lacrymogène et d'un pistolet à impulsions électriques (taser). Les deux hommes se seraient fait remettre sans violence 400.000 euros en bijoux et numéraire avant de prendre la fuite, selon l'AFP.

Which, being translated means:

"... two individuals armed with a handgun, a tear gas bomb and a taser..."

How on earth "pistolet à impulsions" became "electric shotgun" is anybody's guess. In fact, probably WAS somebody's guess!

 

[Rustyt1953]

I just sent a copy to WP.

 

[Onomea]

Nicely done, oldbrownhat!

 

[s&wchad]

Electric shotgun…

Makes me wonder if that’s something like a 40 watt phase plasma rifle.

 

[jeffrefrig]

Yeah, I'd have to go with stun gun, too. My 2nd year French class ended in 1973, along with many of my brain cells! Algebra destroyed my brain cells, not anything else I was tempted with back then.

 

[mtgianni]

Well it's Europe, I can bet the "electricity" used came from a green source.

 

[oldbrownhat]

...Algebra destroyed my brain cells, not anything else I was tempted with back then.

LOL. Algebra is a numbers racket. As Al Gebra famously said, "You can do more with a kind word and a slide rule than with just a kind word"

 

[16thVACav]

Didn't Tom Swift have one of those?