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Shotguns are smooth bored firearms, for the most part. Rifled slug barrels are available. For most of them the answer is no as they are scatter guns. meaning they are meant to hit a large area at short range. They have no real use for accuracy due to the scatter and it would be both pointless and impossible to cause the shotgun pellets to rotate.

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