:D Yeah, I can see that one! I'll have to look for it.

>I've seen those around (or the modern non-NFA repros, anyway), never
>quite bought one, though they tickle my "that's weird, I need one"
>lobe. (Also, the AR-7, that stows-in-its-own-stock survival .22.
>Those are dirt cheap, too, I have no idea why I've never bought one.)

If I'd been in the US, that'd be one of the ones I'd be grabbing too. Collecting functional guns around here? Yeah, right.
Oh, and I should say...in the Nambu post, you mention 'gun like a stapler'? The M6 really, literally, IS that. There is no trigger per se, there's a lever, and it is nice and stout. "Ke-THUNK!" But I suppose in a rifle, that's a bit more excusable, and makes for something of a safety.

>Less insanely, the guy I bought The Judge from told me that he knows
>someone who has a carbine version that Taurus also makes. That sounds
>like it could be a fun shootin'-at-cans gun. You don't see revolver
>carbines much any more.

I have to agree, that DOES sound fun! Very much so.
And a lot saner than that 28-gauge revolver. I have to wonder what they were thinking. I mean, even with the MASSIVE frames that are the Taurus Raging (whatever)...ow. I mean, a .410, which as noted is a sixtyeight(and some fractions) gauge...compare to a TWENTYeight. That's a .55 shotgun. I mean, sure, it isn't a TWELVE gauge, because not even they are that stupid, but...a shotgun has a stock for a reason, mostly. All that recoil FIRMLY in your hand and wrist.

>I think that's part of what those special defensive cartridges I
>mentioned are trying to address—there are only three shot in those
>(or, well, two shot and a bullet), but they're closer to bore-diameter
>and probably ballistically a little better-behaved. My guess would be
>that the effect is like firing .41 Special (if there were such a
>thing—hypothetical less-powerful-than-.41-Magnum cartridge, by
>analogy with .44 Special/.44 Magnum), with the two 000 shot behind it
>as a sort of roll for possible bonus damage, as it were.

Yep, I would assume so! Do let us know when you shoot it, as it were? Because I'll be interested to know.

>Anyway, worst comes to worst, it's still a .45-caliber double-action
>revolver, which is not a thing that's ever going to be totally
>useless, even with a short barrel. The elongated cylinder only makes
>it a bit unwieldy compared with, say, a Charter Arms Bulldog (which is
>chambered for .44 Special, a dimensionally similar cartridge). I got
>mine pretty much exclusively for the novelty value, but even if the
>shotshell capability proved totally superfluous, it would not be an
>entirely worthless handgun in a pinch.

Well, this is true. I'd worry a bit about the weight? But as you said, not useless, and still fun in a novelty sort of way.

>Ah yes, you are correct. Any Other Weapon is kind of a weird no man's
>land.

That I KNOW this...I mean, basic legislation about gun 'types' according to the system of an entirely different country, so that I know what constitutes SBS, SBR, AOW, Destructive Device(and why some .50 are such, while others aren't)? Is slightly weird to me. Sure, personal relationships, as well as interest in guns and access to things like InRange and ForgottenWeapons, but still.

>That video is hilarious. The bathrobes. How many times Ian ended up
>dead. "Nobody makes me bleed but me!"

Yep! And then Ian's enthusiastic thumbs up. Or the 'outtakes' ending, which I REALLY liked. "And....Ian's thing just went 'bing'" followed by Ian's mumbling, "How is it Karl texting me even when he's standing right there?"
Or my ABSOLUTE two favorites, in which Ian first "have a fiddly with the thing" as their crap ammo doesn't allow for properly cycling the pump, and then let's Karl know that he, too, have to start with the PGO gun. "Yeah, embrace the suck, there!" New favorite expressions.

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