Talk:Nereid/@comment-3302226-20150209000735/@comment-26097222-20150326173821

Shotgun describes the projectile type, not the ignition source. There were matchlock shotguns. But given the general tech level KC has described, you're more likely to find guns like in the average cowboy movie. Breech-loading guns using paper cartridges with separate percussion caps will be the mil-spec guns, civilians will still be using loose powder with their percussion caps unless wealthy -- poor people use flintlocks. There's an outside possibility for lever action weapons that use primers integrated into the cartridge but they'd likely be new and untested. The same goes for repeating weapons like Gatling guns, though volley guns and the like have been around for decades.