The phrase "as shotguns" is grammatically correct but its usability in written English depends on context.
It can be used in comparisons or descriptions where shotguns are relevant, often in informal or colloquial contexts.
Example: "The noise from the fireworks was as loud as shotguns going off in the distance."
Alternatives: "like shotguns" or "similar to shotguns".
When they found us they had already kidnapped some people, so they had guns as well as shotguns they had stolen.
However, far from extending an olive branch to a suspicious citizenry, the police continue to make extensive use of teargas as well as shotguns in the name of crowd control.
While Godzilla swatted at planes and crushed tanks underfoot, zombies are done in by weapons such as shotguns, hand grenades and the ever-handy chainsaw.
Ramsey later told the Winston-Salem Journal: "We made arms out of sawed-off pipes that we used as shotguns".
Bramwell further commented that the electrical powers in the game are simply electricity-based reimaginings of standard video game weapon archetypes, such as shotguns and sniper rifles, and, with this awareness, leaves the difficulty of the game up to the enemy placement during encounters.
But, after inspecting the work and observing the spirit of the men I decided that a garrison 500 strong could hold out against Fitch and that I would lead the remainder - about 1500 - to Gen'l Rust as soon as shotguns and rifles could be obtained from Little Rock instead of pikes and lances, with which most of them were armed.
Two witnesses said they had seen at least two of Mr. Morsi's supporters armed with what the witnesses described as primitive shotguns.
Several officers on the scene were pinned down behind cars and elevated track pillars as shotgun blasts and gunfire raged.
Lord Black urged the government to pause and think again, describing proposals to allow courts to impose exemplary damages on newspapers who have lost libel cases as "shotgun legislation" that will create "a constitutional nightmare".
Lord Black of Brentwood, a Tory peer and executive director of the Telegraph Media Group, has condemned proposals to allow courts to impose exemplary damages on newspapers who have lost libel cases as "shotgun legislation" that will create "a constitutional nightmare".
The analysis of the whole lipid sample without prior chromatographic fractionation is referred to as shotgun lipidomics or direct-infusion lipidomics.
