Nickel Plated
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Just curious. Is there a magazine capacity limit when it comes to importing shotguns? As far as I know the import laws that guns imported into the US can't have any of the typical assault weapon features but I haven't seen anything mentioning a specific mag capacity. Yet any imported shotguns I see seem to have at most a 5+1 capacity.
Take the Win SXP for example. Manufactured in Turkey and imported into the US. Here they are available in 4+1 for all the sporting and hunting models and 5+1 for the Defender model. Both pretty much the same just a slightly longer mag on the Defender (Which bothers the hell out of me BTW. Why not just stick to a single standard? Instead of splitting their product line in half over what? One extra round? Make em all 5+1 and call it a day)
But if you look at various European sites that sell the SXP. They have a 7+1 High Capacity Defender model with a 20" barrel.
I would love one yet they are not available here in the US. Neither are the barrels and mag tubes to build one yourself. Why is that?
here's the link to Winchester International with the 7+1 Defender.
http://www.winchesterint.com/winche...hp?group1=1&group2=3&group3=&submod=A-WSXPDEF
Take the Win SXP for example. Manufactured in Turkey and imported into the US. Here they are available in 4+1 for all the sporting and hunting models and 5+1 for the Defender model. Both pretty much the same just a slightly longer mag on the Defender (Which bothers the hell out of me BTW. Why not just stick to a single standard? Instead of splitting their product line in half over what? One extra round? Make em all 5+1 and call it a day)
But if you look at various European sites that sell the SXP. They have a 7+1 High Capacity Defender model with a 20" barrel.
I would love one yet they are not available here in the US. Neither are the barrels and mag tubes to build one yourself. Why is that?
here's the link to Winchester International with the 7+1 Defender.
http://www.winchesterint.com/winche...hp?group1=1&group2=3&group3=&submod=A-WSXPDEF