User blog comment:GoldenKnight/Why add the 1887's?/@comment-3144996-20091222144635

well they needed a cinematic gun, and also it has 10 gauge ammuniton so it has a high range, and it is a shotgun so therefore doesnt take much to kill someone

i guess they wanted a bit of realism, but obviously didnt work when one gun was so much better than all the rest