AtD translation: loaded and unbroken

[Mark Kohut]

Seems so....archaic....example in Overland mag from 1900.
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On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 4:20 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> P487.30-32   Tace and Eugene showed up at the door, the Sheriff still half
> asleep and preoccupied with his galluses, Tace grim-lidded and carrying a
> Greener shotgun, loaded and unbroken.
>
> What does "unbroken" mean here? Never been fired?
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