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Originally Posted by zuluzerosix
Thank you all for the education, I really do appreciate it. What about what my dad said about by Grandad having the police officers fire the Remmington shotgun by holding the trigger and pumping the weapon to fire? Can it be done that way? I have never heard of that and I have the Mossberg 500 series, can that be done with the Mossberg?
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Only weapons with no disconnector can be fired that way, and I consider it a design flaw. Today, it would be a major liability issue, and if you open the action with the trigger pulled, the next time you load it, it will fire on closing, whether you intended for it to or not. That is how my ND occured, with a Winchester Model 97 shotgun. If your Mossberg 500 works that way, you probably have a broken gun or the basis for a good lawsuit.
IMHO, it is a fast way to make a lot of noise without hitting much, unless you were already an accomplished marksman.
TR
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