Raider Red does not take the shotguns on the road. Those are only at home, and most of the time, it's a Saddle Tramp who shoots the blanks after a score rather than Red himself. When I was in school we had two incidents with those shotguns. One was the Saddle Tramp carrying them over to Red accidentally shot one while it was pointed down, leaving a burn mark in the astroturf. The athletic facilities assistant AD, Ron Damron, completely lost his shit over that. Then a couple of years later, he REALLY lost his shit when the dumbass who was responsible for the shotguns decided he wanted to impress his girlfriend and get a picture of him shooting the shotguns AFTER a game was over. We all turned around when we heard them because that never happens after a game. Damron and the campus police descended on him rather quickly. It took a lot of pleading by the Saddle Tramp sponsor to the administration to allow them to continue the tradition and not have it banned because of the actions of one dumb kid.
Now if the big wooden pistols Red has as decoration are "banned", then that's just being stupid. Those are just wood cutouts.