Good point.

I hope I didn't come off as offensive to you as I highly respect you (honestly).

But, I guaranty a military armorer works on shotguns more often than a civilian one. I think you are making judgments of a military job without actually experiencing it.

We don't carry too many bolt actions, but we do, and we use a ton of shotguns. A Marine in the 21 field (not sure what the other services call it) has to know the uncommon weapons just as well as the common ones.

Name a type of weapon and I bet we use it. Armorers deal with them all.