And on the other end of boomsticks is the recently released Rock Island Armory VRF14. This is a box-fed semi-auto 12 gauge with a 14 inch barrel… not a “shotgun” but a “firearm” per the ATF. It looks like more fun than a barrel of monkeys as well as being a handy home defense item. To be compared with the virtually impossible to obtain Remington TAC 13.
A lot of Rock island Armory’s shotguns are made in Turkey, and while Turkey has cranked out a lot of interesting guns, they’ve also cranked out a lot of unreliable crap. The following video from RIA says it’s made in America, but that could always mean that it was actually manufactured in Turkey, shipped to the US in a few pieces, then assembled in the USA. I dunno. Anybody have more details, I’d be interested. Interesting that the official video from RIA doesn’t actually show them firing the thing.