After Billy the Kid killed Bob Olinger with his own shotgun, he walked out on the balcony of the Lincoln County Jail, smashed the gun's stock & threw it all at Bob's corpse. Attached is the actual Whitney 10 gauge Billy used to kill Bob (its stock has been repaired with copper wire):
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Here's a 1934 newspaper article about the gun:
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/history/blogs/tales-from-the-morgue/2011/07/13/1934-pistol-that-killed-billy-the-kid-will-be-returned-to-garretts-widow-1/31502257/
No.
Not only would that likely be non-lethal, it would be really expensive.
Still, it inspired one of the best threats in the history of Westerns:
...I once spoke to one of Peckinpah's squib/effects guys, who told me it was just spray-painted circles of cardboard launched from some kind of air gun.
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