Why Do A Majority Of Russian School Shooters Use Shotguns?

The shooters of Kerch, Kazan, and Perm all opted for a shotgun as their primary and only gun along with that girl who killed another classmate last year. Why is that? Shotguns are deadly yes but they aren't the best logically for mass killing because of how much they need to be reloaded which can cause victims to run away or tackle the shooter in precious seconds of an evil rampage. When I think guns in Russia my mind opts for the AK47 rifle but honestly you rarely hear them used in mass shootings compared to the AR15 rifle in America. The last AK47 attack I can fondly remember was the El Paso Walmart shooting. Why shotguns of all guns did these Russians use? Was it because of copycat effect? Was it because of gun laws? I'd be intrigued to know the reason for the killing in the East.

Because getting semiautomatic long rifles in Russia is hard.

AK47? Sure you can get them if you have connections to the mafia and such or some corrupt dudes in the army. These kids don't have such connections.

Russia may be a loony country, but it does not have the sort of wide-firearm access that people have in the states.

Because of gun laws.

Rifles and pistols are service weapons in Russia, intended for use by officials of state bodies and employees of legal entities, who are allowed by the legislation of the Russian Federation to carry, store and use these weapons, for self-defense or to fulfill their federal law obligations to protect the life and health of citizens, property, nature and natural resources, etc. etc.

In Russia, civilian weapons are divided into
1. Weapons for self-defense (traumatic pistols, revolvers with cartridges of traumatic action, cartridges of gas action and cartridges of light and sound action)
2. Sporting
(firearms with rifled barrels;
smoothbore firearms;
cold bladed;
throwing;
pneumatic weapons with muzzle energy over 3 Joules)
3) Hunting weapons
(long-barrelled firearms with rifled barrels;
long-barreled smoothbore firearms;
long-barrelled firearms, including those with interchangeable and inserted rifled barrels;
pneumatic with muzzle energy not exceeding 25 Joules;
cold bladed weapons;
hunting throwing small arms)

(There are also: 4) Signaling weapons and 5) Weapons used for cultural and educational purposes).

Shooters from Kerch, Kazan and Perm as ordinary citizens (not employees of the services as stated above) had the legal right to purchase a hunting weapon, which is considered as a civilian weapon

they're chads, thats why

I'm guessing easy access.

It's like in Canada, u can own shotgun's and hinting rifle but semi auto like an AR or an AK

Maybe a shitty 9mm carbine.

Shotguns have a long history in Russia. Back in the Soviet Union, people were allowed to own shotguns but not rifles or handguns. You had to be a member of a hunting club, get permission from a government ministry, and get a certificate for when and where you would be hunting. The 90-year-old Communist Party leaders didn't trust regular people with much else.

ThatDelawareReader wrote:

Shotguns have a long history in Russia. Back in the Soviet Union, people were allowed to own shotguns but not rifles or handguns. You had to be a member of a hunting club, get permission from a government ministry, and get a certificate for when and where you would be hunting. The 90-year-old Communist Party leaders didn't trust regular people with much else.

Actually, there was a period when shotguns and even some smallbore rifles are freely solds for hunters in SU without permission (1950-1960). Also you should remember ww1, civil war, ww2.. people owned a lot of illegal guns also.