On another note; perhaps it would be best to not crow about the weapon so much? An earlier incarnation was widely outlawed (before I obtained one, even though I did have plenty of opportunity to do so).
Please spare me your ignorance. It was a round “drum magazine”, you know like the old thompson .45 sub machine guns.
Why would I care one way or another, its not mine.
Is it a magazine, or does it have a chamber for each round like a revolver? My understanding is that at least some shotguns use the latter design.
It's important to note, however, that NFA'34 defines as a destructive device any firearm with a bore >0.5" which the Secretary of the Treasury finds is not particularly suited to hunting or sporting purposes. Since revolving-cylinder shotguns as well as some box-fed semi-autos have been found to be 'non-sporting' they are taxed and restricted as 'destructive devices'. People who owned such shotguns at the time of the rule change were allowed to register them for free within a certain time of the rule change; anyone registering them after that (including anyone to whom they are sold) must pay $200.