"House Gun": The ultimate home defense weapon, or the ultimate Elmore-esque gimmick?

[Phrost]

Is this thing for real? This can't be real.

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[Joe Doggs]

Possiby but maybe someone is having fun with Photoshop. Regardless, its amusing and sure wouldn't want to fire that in a confined setting. I remember during the Vietnam era reading about something called a "Duckbill" which was somewhat similar. I believe the "Duckbill" was a mod to a shotgun barrel where either the barrel or a choke was slightly compressed horizontally to throw out a horizontal pattern. Supposedly with the right load it was able to nearly cut a man in half and was used in clearing operations/raids
JD

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It needs a couple of bayonets around the barrel, and maybe an ax blade on the bottom of the butt. It would be the Gwar of firearms.

[TEA]

Hmm, I don't know if this is serious or not, but I question the legality under the "Destructive Device" definition of US Code Title 26, Chapter 53, Subchapter B, Part I, Subsection 5845.

(f) Destructive device the barrel or barrels of which have a bore of more than one-half inch in diameter, except a shotgun or shotgun shell which the Secretary finds is generally recognized as particularly suitable for sporting purposes4684 (2), 4685, or 4686 of title 10 of the United States Code; or any other device which the Secretary finds is not likely to be used as a weapon, or is an antique or is a rifle which the owner intends to use solely for sporting purposes.

(emphasis added)

Not sure how they would have convinced the BATFE that this was suitable for "sporting purposes."

[RoninPimp]

Its shot pattern has to be fucking awful...

[TEA]

It needs a couple of bayonets around the barrel, and maybe an ax blade on the bottom of the butt. It would be the Gwar of firearms.

Yes, that would make it much better. Oh, what the heck, just use a chainsaw instead. You'd be able to be a bit more selective with the damage you cause to your house that way.

[Olorin]

[Phrost]

Needs more striking bezel!

[ar549]

Much Smaller Much Better!

Plus you could actually pistol whip a bitch with a Shotgun, Thats Cool!

[Don Gwinn]

1. The photo looks suspiciously like a shop to me.

2. The photo that shows the muzzle end shows it as pretty far out of round--and frankly, it doesn't look quite right. Maybe it's kinda roughly parkerized or spray-painted--but it looks like rolled-up tagboard or something to me. If you look at the bottom left fourth of the muzzle opening, it looks like maybe they smudged out the edge where it meets the other.

3. To get it to fit on the shotgun above the magazine tube, they made it off-center with the top of the barrel rising pretty far above the top of the receiver. IF their theory works out, most of the added spread will be sent upward. Realistically, if you're aiming for center mass, this means a lot of shot would probably go over your target's head. Not good.


PS:
The "Duckbill" attachment was real and was used by the U.S. military. I believe most who used it reported that it wasn't much of an improvement considering how awkward it made other tasks. But yes, the idea there was that it didn't make much sense to allow shot to spread into a cone, since if your target is at the center of the cone then some of your shot has to go up and some down, so either it's going over his head or you're peppering one poor SOB with a lot of buckshot that could be used to benefit other needy people to his left and right. Obviously, this is not something you'd use if you didn't intend to kill everything in the room.

[Don Gwinn]

Much Smaller Much Better!

Plus you could actually pistol whip a bitch with a Shotgun, Thats Cool!

Here we go again . . . . .

[Olorin]

It's so cute

Here we go again . . . . .

Here is the website it came from.

http://www.serbu.com/

[ar549]

Heres what it's big brother looks like

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You know what would be neat: put a cone shaped laser sight that projects a giant read dot over the spray area.

[Phrost]

Or just a really bright red flashlight.