Well, that’s what/who the 590 series was designed for. As far as steel vice aluminum receivers, the M590 won against about five other makers offerings about 20+ years back, Rem, Win, Benelli ( the USMC adopted one of those for a while too) and the Mossy won the overall competition, including durability reliability etc.
It has been the Army shotgun for sometime. I carried one in my vehicle in IRQ in 2003 and 4. Made a difference in the crowds. Good driving suppression weapon, but the go to was still the M4 or A2.
Yeah, and the police used the same process to decide on the Remington. The Mossberg is a bit looser but they claim that gives it more tolerance thus the cry: “If it don’t rattle it don’t go into battle.”
Last year I replaced the 22’” rifled barrel on my 500 with an 18 inch smooth tactical barrel to make it a home defense gun. Damn, it seems like that doubled the recoil - kicks like a mule. Good thing recoil has never bothered me.