On a side note, this thread is on two Long guns, is a shotgun a long gun??
The story is told of a gentleman by name of Samuel Whittemore, who was in his late 70s at least at the onset of the Revolutionary War. Mr. Whittemore had fought in his younger days using his musket and returned from the fighting with a cavalry saber. he was asked how he came to have such an item and simply replied, "The former owner has no more need of it." On another occasion, he returned with a brace of pistols and gave the same reply when asked the same question.
When the fighting began, Mr. Whittemore took up his pistols, saber, and musket and the British troops into whom he laid with them sent a detachment to deal with the group who were shooting at them.