User blog comment:A Lonely Nomad/New Black Ops updates, super awesome!/@comment-98.111.29.213-20101206030359/@comment-2040725-20101206171926

Shotguns were bitched and moaned about in MW2, so Treyarch decided to nerf them a bit. They're still effective, especially the SPAS-12 and the Olympia, but they're not the close range God-punch they used to be. The range reduction was a necessity. Remember the MW2 SPAS-12 ? And the Models pre-patch with Akimbo and FMJ?