LAST EDITED ON Feb-22-17 AT 04:01 AM (EST)
 
As it happens, I own a variant of the Shotgun, Universal that is perhaps even simpler. A New England Firearms 'Pardner' 12 gauge, 32" barrel, 3" chamber. It has a hammer, a barrel release button behind the hammer, a trigger, and... that's it. So far as I'm aware it doesn't even do the half-cocked thing.

An interesting thing to note is that in spite of the half inch thick butt pad? It will completely blacken your shoulder if you happen to be firing, say, 3" nitro-mag rounds. Which was certainly not the load my brothers swapped out for my first experience with mine, when I was supposed to be firing standard squirrel shot, no, whatever might give you that impression?

And if you thing that's bad? My younger brother has a nearly identical one. Except it's four inches shorter, and consequently lighter.

EDIT: ...well, I WAS going to include a link to a pic of the gun in question, but for some reason I can't get the link forum code to work.