Per the New York Times:
“People hunting ducks, geese, doves or other migratory birds anywhere in the United States cannot use a shotgun that is capable of shooting more than three times without reloading. They also cannot use shotguns larger than 10 gauge in order to prevent situations where one blast might kill several birds in a flock. These regulations have been in place since the 1930s, and have driven the manufacture and availability of hunting shotguns.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/opinion/gun-control-hunting.html
United States cannot use a shotgun that is capable of shooting more than three times without reloading....
This is incorrect as the
“3” shell rule only applies
to waterfowl. Not upland
game such as dove, quail,
phesant, or grouse.
And those “3” shells are to
be steel shot only.
I inherited my Minnesota dad’s Winchester 98 12-gauge shotgun a number of years ago. The magazine contained a six-inch wooden dowl, limiting it to three cartridges. This was common for every legal hunter in Minnesota at the time. The shotgun had been put away in a hidden storage room the year I left home to work in Michigan. Dad had covered it with a newspaper to keep the dust off. On the front page was a picture of Henry Kissinger, the Secretary of State at the time. He was wearing mutton chop sideburns, and bell bottom pants.