Grabbed this off the Firearm Blog. I had never heard of this gun before, and it was such an awesome and radical idea that I can't believe that it never got released or followed up upon.
I assume technical difficulties were the main problem, getting the mag to feed and such, but even still, it deals with all the drawbacks I see in the KSG and UTS-15 style shotguns, namely that while you have a lot of shells handy, the reload is horribly slow on those firearms, and a detachable magazine solves all those problems. I think mimicking the P-90 style of magazine was genius on a bullpup shotgun, as it creates a streamlined and narrow (relatively of course) magazine that has a high capacity.
Shame it never made it to fruition.
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Back in 2007/08 a company called Monolith Arms was promoting a pump-action 12 gauge shotgun they designed. The shotgun was notable because it fed from a horizontally mounted magazine inspired by the FN P90. They shotgun was promised to be on sale in 2007, when they did not ship it in 2007 they promised it in 2008, but again it never materialized.
Maybe Monolith Arms were just a little to early to the market. There is a lot of interest in high-capacity shotguns these days, for example the Kel-Tec KSG, and a number of high-capacity solutions for regular shotguns such as the MD-20 drum magazine for the Saiga-12. It would sell well today.
Back in early 2008 the company released this teaser video of the shotgun …
I assume technical difficulties were the main problem, getting the mag to feed and such, but even still, it deals with all the drawbacks I see in the KSG and UTS-15 style shotguns, namely that while you have a lot of shells handy, the reload is horribly slow on those firearms, and a detachable magazine solves all those problems. I think mimicking the P-90 style of magazine was genius on a bullpup shotgun, as it creates a streamlined and narrow (relatively of course) magazine that has a high capacity.
Shame it never made it to fruition.
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Back in 2007/08 a company called Monolith Arms was promoting a pump-action 12 gauge shotgun they designed. The shotgun was notable because it fed from a horizontally mounted magazine inspired by the FN P90. They shotgun was promised to be on sale in 2007, when they did not ship it in 2007 they promised it in 2008, but again it never materialized.
Maybe Monolith Arms were just a little to early to the market. There is a lot of interest in high-capacity shotguns these days, for example the Kel-Tec KSG, and a number of high-capacity solutions for regular shotguns such as the MD-20 drum magazine for the Saiga-12. It would sell well today.
Back in early 2008 the company released this teaser video of the shotgun …
