Benelli M3 Shotgun
I have a Benelli M3 for home defense. Does the thing I've heard about not being able to have an extended magazine tube and a pistol grip stock on the same shotgun at the same time apply in every state? I live in North Carolina. If so, is there some type of permit you can obtain in order to do this? If this weapon never leaves my home, would it be allowed? Does anyone know?
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It's a Federal law regarding "assault shotguns" and applies everywhere, unless the gun was made in assault weapons configuration prior to Sept. 1994. The Federal definition of "assault shotgun" per the 1994 ban is:
(D) a semiautomatic shotgun that has at least 2 of&endash;&endash;
(i) a folding or telescoping stock;
(ii) a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon;
(iii) a fixed magazine capacity in excess of 5 rounds; and
(iv) an ability to accept a detachable magazine.
An M3 with pistol grip and magazine capacity over 5 rounds would fall in that category.0 -
You need how many shots? Stick with what you have MORE than enough. 0 -
I just love the way it looks with the extended magazine & pistol grip stock. 0 -
If it's looks you want, make a fake extention out of a piece of dowell rod 
To err is human, to moo is bovine.[:D]0 -
I just love the way it looks with the extended magazine & pistol grip stock
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Cosmetics don't mean you will survive.Also self defense isn't a fashion statement or making a movie. And NOBODY at the other end will notice. Use the money for practice ammunition.0 -
I just purchased a new benelli m3 as well, and it annoys the hell out of me that I cannot put both on, although I knew beforehand. The only other alternative is to buy a pre-ban one already like that, those go for way more than a thousand. Mine was only 800 bucks brand new, hard to beat. 0 -
I think I'll just sell the thing and get a 50 cal. assault weapon. 0 -
You've been watching too many "Rambo" movies. Stick with a good sporting weapon and learn to shoot! You can protect yourself just as well and you don't sound like a nut giving the anti-gun people ammunition.
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I wonder if anyone who has a shotgun for use IN the house ever fired one in a small room? Totally disorienting. Also in the house it's a rifle with little spread. It is also cumbersome around narrow doors, furniture, drapes, lamps etc. It takes both hands as well.
In the last reported year in the U.S. the DOJ listed only TWO self-defense shootings involving shotguns. Their use is very rare in real life application as few opportunities exist to use them since things happen so fast and in a manner that makes them a distant second choice or the most viable. They seem to be more testosterone than logical. Nobody is a bigger fan of a shotgun than I am, but survival is about choice and the best tool for the job. My favorite urban legend is about the "racking" of a shotgun to make burlgars run away. I often wonder what a homeowner would do if he did that to impress a thug and the thug racked his? I wish dealing with criminals was that easy. As a cop I would have turned up the squads PA system and racked my shotgun to clear the town of burglars.
Movies and TV have given us a very distorted concept of dealing with such things. I have a Benelli as well. Nothing fancy. Bare bones. Can't even imagine I'd need more and cosmetics mean little in application. The owner of a shotgun with an extended tube and more on the gun are more cartoon like than reality. I'm sure my views are in the minority. Yup, I have a shotgun in the house and I have taken it out about a year ago when a fellow was shot behind my house. It is for OUTSIDE work vs inside unless I can't get to the handgun of choice which would be rare since I have a gun ON me much of the time (high crime neighborhood) or close to hand.
Those that decide to invade a home known damn well the dangers of armed homeowners and work accordingly, and the house of choice is the one with the door left unlocked and the just walk in and you are caught flat footed. I was amazed late at night how many homes we found UNLOCKED and could just walk in inculuding those homes where the homeowner INSISTED the house was NEVER unlocked. About 60+% of all home burglary is via UNLOCKED doors etc. Burglars for the most part know how to handle your security measures. The family pooch is easily taken care of as are things like motion lights and even homes with alarms.
A fellow down the block had a vicious pitt bull. They broke in while he was at work and on the way out took the dog. My neighbor to the south next to me had steel doors and a great alarm system. Burglar took another neighbors ladder and put it up to a second floor window and cut the screen and he woke up with the burglar IN his bedroom going thru a drawer. He had a vicious fight for several minutes unilt the police arrived alerted when I went outside to check on why my pooch was barking and saw the ladder and cut window and dialed 911. The cops had to crawl up that ladder to get in since the steel doors were locked.
Another burglar down the block crawled up four floors worth of outside balconys to get into a woman's apartment. She thought she was safe and of course on a warm night the sliding door was open to enjoy the breeze.
If nothing else they KNOCK on the door. Works 99% of the time. Unless you have the gun (anygun) in your hand you are dead meat.
With hundreds of thousands of home burglaries a year in the U.S. and about 40-50% or more of homes having guns in them, it's interesting that only a few dozen burglars are killed each year in the U.S. if that many. The DOJ now keeps track.
I took a LOT of reports of people waking up with wallets, purses and stuff gone and they slept thru it all including the pooch who barked at everything.
I learned to NEVER say NEVER and clearly understand the battle is never ending or over and my wfforts are all subject to change and making the BEST possible choices. FLAME AWAY0
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