Stubby Shotgun

"Extremely powerful short-range weapon. Very dangerous in the wrong hands: anyone's but ours."

- GTA Vice City Website.

The Stubby Shotgun is a weapon available in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.

Description
A tool built for close combat superiority, the Stubby Shotgun displays fearsome power at close ranges. In all its appearances, the weapon is modeled after a short-barreled shotgun; the Vice City version is modeled after an Ithaca 37 "Stakeout" and the Liberty City Stories model adopts the appearance of a Serbu Super Shorty, while it appears as a shortened Mossberg 500 in Vice City Stories. According to its HUD icon, the model featured in Chinatown Wars is implied to be a sawed-off shotgun.

The Stubby Shotgun's power allows it to take down most enemies, with or without protection, in a single shot. Only armored foes like SWAT and FBI agents are able to survive an impact; even then, they will suffer severe damage. Likewise, it is able to quickly set a vehicle in flames. Its strengths are countered by a poor range and a lengthy pump sequence (compared to other shotguns), leaving it at a disadvantage in firefights at medium ranges.

In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and the rest of other HD Universe games, the Stubby Shotgun is supplanted by the Sawn-off Shotgun, which grants a similar power and range.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

 * Little Haiti - Behind the hangar at the northwest part of the Vice City Junkyard.
 * North Point Mall, Vice Point, Vice Beach - Available to buy from Ammu-Nation after completion of The Chase for $600.
 * Malibu Club, Vice Point - Can be obtained by killing the bartender. She will try to kill the player with one if they fire a gun inside the club or go past the bar; she will drop it only if she has it in her hands. The bartender will be unarmed once the club is bought.

Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories

 * Callahan Point, Portland Island - Found at the ruins of the Leone warehouse.
 * Belleville Park, Staunton Island - Found at the big building east of the park.
 * Wichita Gardens, Shoreside Vale - Found behind a billboard.
 * Dropped by biker gang leader Cedric Fotheringay upon his death in Biker Heat.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories

 * Little Havana, Vice City Mainland - At the southeast corner of the trailer park.
 * Little Havana, Vice City Mainland - Available to buy at the Stonewall J's after the completion of O, Brothel, Where Art Thou?.

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

 * Can be bought from Ammu-Nation after the mission Copter Carnage.

Trivia

 * The Stubby Shotgun in GTA Vice City is another of the game's many references to the TV series Miami Vice -- the weapon in the game is based on the customized, shortened shotgun frequently used by Ricardo Tubbs, one of the show's main characters.
 * This shotgun fires rounds similar to that of the original pump-action shotgun featured in Grand Theft Auto III, in which each shell spreads 5 shots.
 * This shotgun is capable of destroying most vehicles in two shots up close. However, the player will often lose a large amount of health due to being close to the explosion.