You seem to only think it is short ranged, slugs are used for range.
You're acting like it's a ridiculous notion.
Actually, if you would read what I posted, I said that shotguns are known for short-range combat. When somebody says 'shotgun' pretty much everyone thinks 'Massive spread, short-range combat'
People.TF2.Pump action rifles don't matter in that twisted game world. Probably slug rounds.The engineer is not getting a sniper rifle because the sniper already has one.
That is being ignorant then, if they are not open to the possibility of using slug rounds.