As is usual...
We’ve gone about fifty posts without determining the most important thing...
What will be this gun’s primary use? Home defense? Waterfowl? Upland birds? Sporting clays?
My error for not stating that, upfront.
It’s primarily for 1) home defense, 2) riot control, 3) target (paper), 4) and “whatever angrily comes my way” (after reading several nasty articles about rioters etc).