likewise, people want to limit shotguns because some people want to play SOME matches that at least feel a bit like World War II infantry tactics. And because in the real war people cared about staying alive you simply did not have people running around at top speed blasting away with shotguns that require very little aiming, like in some Quake-style video game.

If you want to tear around like some action hero cartoon character that is fine with me. I would just like to play SOME games on SOME servers that did not have snipers (and it is not about snipers it is about unrealistically easy to use super scopes), shotguns or rockets.

But I would also like to play on some servers that did not ban weapons so much as limited them to 1 rocket, 1 shotgun, 1 rocket launcher per 10 men on a team, or something like that.

Most WWII close contact infantry engagments were rifles and submachine guns, with like one BAR size automatic rifle per 8 or 10 men.

If I want unrealistic zoom and shoot fests I will go play Quake.