I am sure the Turnip, reloaded calmly while some of the kids were bleeding out. So, if the idea was small mags means the pinned down defenders with revolvers get a chance to return fire, that would be one thing.
But with no armed citizens and all too cowardly, to fight back it doesn't matter if you have to reload a smooth bore shotgun with black powder and gravel, does it?
The sheep-people the Royalist want us to raise, would just stand there, maybe begging, while the guy reloads a room full of buck shot.
I love it when Buck mentions that a CCW holder with a Pistol was there on site. What he fails to mention is that the CCW holder didn't appear until AFTER everything had happened. That person had no opportunity to stop anything, but Buck sure likes to make it seem like he was there but did nothing.