Mk6.Mod3 ‘Porcupine’ Shotgun

A smoothbore, automatic self-loading shotgun. It is a bullpup design, with a magazine well located in the rear, in front of the buttstock. It has a rounded, smooth barrel shroud with vented slots on the sides, and a slim vertical profile. The Porcupine is designed with the use of tungsten flechette shells in mind, but is capable of firing any and all 12 gauge shotgun cartridges, with or without +C ammunition. What makes the Porcupine unique is the use of electronic ignition in a shotgun, which allows the firing mechanism to take up less room in the receiver. As a result, it is able to use proprietary double-stacked box magazines that fit up to 20 12-gauge shotgun shells. It can also fire from an ammunition belt, and belt boxes that fit into the magazine well carry up to 70 rounds. It has a far higher rate of fire than most shotguns, with much greater lethality at range due to the velocity of +C projectiles. The Porcupine earned its nickname from the flechette shells it most commonly uses.