Shotguns in and of themselves are not prohibited under the Hague Convention. However, there are prohibitions on the kinds of ammo that can be used in shotguns against enemy combatants. I don't believe shotgun slugs can be used, but 00 buck is not prohibited.
"...Shotguns have been used in war since 1917..." And? You need to do some research that doesn't involve Wikipedia. Go here.
https://uscbs.org/1899---1907-hague-conventions.html
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From what information I have they were made for Embassy Guards
let's not get into a 'who's is bigger' match over shotguns,
fact is US has had them in inventory for a long while,
Riot
Trench
AA training,
door breeching
MP's/security
and I am likely forgetting some use,
as far as London Bridge, yep, they started in the early 80's as a small shop working mil contracts and gunshows,
knew a few of the guys that worked there back in the day, good group of folks
We used these pouches when I went to USMC Security Force Battalion Schools. The School was located at the time on Camp Pendleton, Va. at Virginia Beach Va. This was for classroom study. We shot some handgun (M1911A1's) at NS Dam Neck, Va. I can not remember the name, but there was a training area on the Va./N.C. line that we used for shotgun training and other things. We used the pouches during shotgun training We learned a Combat Shotgun Course there that was three training days and we shot up over 350 rounds of 00Buck and slug. The training days were about 12 hours long. We were using Mossberg 500 shotguns.
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