Uh... what exactly is a "high powered shotgun"?
I have several shotguns. The power of each one depends on the ammo used.
Journalists are know-nothings. Every time I read a news account about a subject I know something about, I can see that they get it wrong, wrong, wrong. Every time. This “reporter” apparently thinks that calling a shotgun “high powered” makes it sound ever so much more evil.
Mark my words. These Obamots and liberal idiot anti-gun idiots will find a way to call a self-loading pistol an “Assault Pistol” one day. Its reference to “high-powered” was to bring to mind the evil “high powered rifle” as in ‘assassination boom-boom stick’ to the typical idiot Obamot voter.
In any MSM story involving firearms, "high powered" is a scare word, much like "assault," that they are required under union rules to sprinkle liberally throughout the story.
It does not refer any particular caliber, muzzle velocity, penetration capability, or magazine capacity.
The only thing you can deduce for sure from the term "high powered" in a MSM story, is that the writer, and his/her/nonspecific-gender editor disappoves of the weapon.
Similarly, the only thing you can tell for certain from a politician being labeled "conservative" is that the writer, and his/her/nonspecific-gender editor disappoves of the politician. That is why, to the MSM, George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are all "conservative."