So, this is an interesting story(warning, adult language), including:
- People pre-ordered the guns, need refunds
- History of the original AA-12 makers: A non-gun guy and a mechanical genius
- Stainless Steel Cast Parts and Stamped Sheet Steel
- Acquiring the AA-12 designs and rights to manufacture
- How the old AA-12's were built
- Problems negotiating the sale of the designs and rights, and a tattletale
- Problems with the ATF
- Criminal Charges against two 90-year old men
- Silly Gun Laws
- ATF is upset
- ATF destroys all the AA-12's except 1, even the movie props
- Differences between the Semi-Auto and the Auto version
- Military Requires a selector switch vs gun trigger semi/full control
- Ammo issues
- Acquiring Ammo that works
- Unsafe Gun Testing
- Same Guys made the Thunder-5 pre-cursor to the Taurus Judge
- Laws vs Rules
- Unaccountable Bureaucrats
- Gun Manufacturers and Importers Chicken Out Mostly
- Most Small Manufacturers don't have the money to bring lawsuits
- Problems with the ATF and gun parts for suppressors, no further parts for any of the AA-12 is to be made