[nwilliams]

I noticed that in the CDNN catalog I got in the mail today they are advertising two FN "Defense Auto" shotguns as being banned. On the side it says that no more hi-cap mag shotguns are being imported.

For some reason I haven't heard any mention about this law before, is it new? Was there a particular reason for this law being put into action?

[Mike U.]

Well, I don't know if it's new. If it is, it's news to me.
As to why, well, you already know why.
There are extremely evil people that want nothing more than to have a disarmed populace. Tyrants prefer their victims, err, subjects to be unarmed.

I fully believe the BATFE needs to have serious restrictions put on their authority if they are the ones enacting these draconian restrictions.

[csspecs]

They are not banned, just that model with the big magazine.

There is a unwritten rule that a shotgun with a magazine over 5 rounds is "unsporting" according to section 922r and is not importable. What FN did was attach tube extensions that will allow the shotgun to hold more than five rounds in th tube.

What they SHOULD have, but apparently did not do was to send the BATFE the shotgun to review on a (I think) form 5 (I think). They would have likely been told "NO" and it would never have come over at all, instead they just loaded it on a boat and sold it. Now the ATF has "Caught" them and the shotgun is now "banned" from being imported as it is.

Don't worry you will be seeing the shotgun again with either a smaller magazine or made by FN-USA.