KAC Masterkey {12 gauge}
SWAT and special operations teams executing rapid entries often use shotguns to blow the hinges and locks off doors, usually with breaching ammunition (see p. 86). This tactic has the disadvantage of leaving the first man through the door with a mostly empty weapon. The Masterkey is the best-known example of a breaching shotgun, one designed to be mounted under the barrel of an assault rifle. The Masterkey is a cut-down pump-action shotgun, equipped with attachment brackets strong enough to keep it from tearing loose from the rifle to which it’s attached. Mounting or removing a Masterkey on an assault rifle takes hand tools and 10 minutes. If a character is desperate enough to fire a Masterkey on its own, she suffers a –2 penalty (the shotgun has no grip at all) and the gun’s Strength requirement increases to 6.
Item type
Weapon, Ranged
Ranges: 5/15/30
Capacity: 3+1
Strength: 3
Size: 1*
Cost: ••••