i was browsing the internet and came up on this particular gun i thout id let yall see it...
This particular assault shotgun, engineered for police use and military service, would have been a major hit on such markets if it would have made it out from the prototype phase. It didn't, sadly.
The fine folks at PANCOR - MARK THREE CORPORATION made it in Bull-Pup configuration, which allowed a barrel of standard lenght to be hosted in a considerably short weapon. This resulted in being the "Jackhammer" considerably shorter than the only selective-fire shotgun available on the market at that time (The South-Korean made Daewoo-Atchisson USAS-12), and shorter than all the other selective-fire shotgun prototypes that were under development (by Remington, Heckler&Koch, and many others including Franchi here in Italy); thus making it much more mangeable in confined spaces and close quarters battle (thought I would never shoot such a beast in a small room or from inside a vehicle, unless wearing two or three pairs of hearing protection headsets, and a helmet). Its muzzle brake / flash suppressor and its recoil absorbing system allowed a consistent reduction in recoil felt, muzzle climb and flash. Furthermore, the weapon was fed through a 10-rounds rotating magazine, that operated much like the cylinder of a revolver, it "turned" after every shot to put a cartridge on line with the striking pin and the chamber. There was no chambering of a shell, and no shell ejection; empty shells were left in the cylinder, this meant no shelss ejecting in someone's face and ready usability by both right-handed and left-handed shooters, a gun ready to be fired by changing shoulder if facing a shootout from behind a wall, etc. Once out of ammo, one could have reloaded it by opening the cylinder, ejecting the spent shells and putting 10 new ones in it manually, or directly by changing the cylinder.
And now the bad news. Only 10 prototypes or so were actually made, in its development stage between 1984 and 1990; most of them were manufactured AFTER 1986, so them would be forbidden for civvies anyway. THERE ARE "JACKHAMMER" SHOTGUNS ON THE US CIVILIAN MARKET. Only TWO, mind, -TWO- "Jackhammer" shotguns manufactured before 1986 made it to the hands of private collectors in America. One of these lucky guys had a website around 2001/2002 or so, but I didn't kept the record when I found it, and now I'm not able to find it any longer (I've been googling A LOT). If you'd trace him out, though, I'm not sure that he'd be willing to sell you his Jackhammer. I wouldn't. But if he would, be ready to spend a REAL gross; I'm not a real expert of selective-fire weapons pricing for the civilian market, 'cause I'm Italian and living there and we cannot have full-autos (only those "evil paramilitary-style" semi-automatic clones), but I see around the web in Class-III dealers sites that, as for an example, USAS-12 shotguns are priced about 25K US$, and the Jackhammer is much rarer...
