The Serbu Super-Shorty is a compact, stockless,

pump action Pump action is a type of manual firearm action that is operated by moving a sliding handguard on the gun's forestock. When shooting, the sliding forend is pulled rearward to eject any expended cartridge and typically to cock the hammer or ...

shotgun A shotgun (also known as a scattergun, peppergun, or historically as a fowling piece) is a long gun, long-barreled firearm designed to shoot a straight-walled cartridge (firearms), cartridge known as a shotshell, which discharges numerous small ...

chambered in

12-gauge The gauge (in American English or more commonly referred to as bore in British English) of a firearm is a unit of measurement used to express the inner diameter (bore diameter) and other necessary parameters to define in general a smoothbore barr ...

( and 3"). The basic architecture of most of the production models is based on the Mossberg Maverick 88 shotgun, with

Mossberg 500 The Mossberg 500 is a series of pump-action shotguns manufactured by O.F. Mossberg & Sons. The 500 series comprises widely varying models of hammerless repeaters, all of which share the same basic receiver and action, but differ in bore size, ...

and

Remington 870 The Remington Model 870 is a pump-action shotgun manufactured by Remington Arms Company, LLC. It is widely used by the public for shooting sports, hunting and self-defense, as well as by law enforcement and military organizations worldwide. De ...

receivers also available. The shotgun features a spring-loaded, folding

foregrip A vertical forward grip or foregrip is a vertical pistol grip mounted on the fore-end of a long-barrel firearm, designed for grasp A grasp is an act of taking, holding or seizing firmly with (or as if with) the hand. An example of a grasp is ...

. A

20-gauge The 20-gauge shotgun, also known as 20 bore or 20 gauge, is a type of smoothbore shotgun. 20-gauge shotguns have a bore diameter of , while the 12-gauge has a bore diameter of . 12-gauge and 20-gauge shotguns are the most popular gauges ...

model is available on special order. In the United States, the Super-Shorty is classified as an

Any Other Weapon Title II weapons, or NFA firearms, are designations of certain weapons under the United States National Firearms Act (NFA). These are weapons requiring a Type 01 Federal Firearms License (FFL) as well as a Class 3 Special Occupation Tax (SOT) t ...

(AOW). Civilian ownership transfers of the shotgun require a $5 tax stamp and registration as an AOW to be in compliance with the

National Firearms Act The National Firearms Act (NFA), 73rd Congress, Sess. 2, ch. 757, was enacted on June 26, 1934, and currently codified and amended as . The law is an Act of Congress in the United States that, in general, imposes an excise tax on the manufact ...

. As the weapon is originally manufactured without a shoulder stock, it is considered a

smooth-bore A smoothbore weapon is one that has a barrel without rifling. Smoothbores range from handheld firearms to powerful tank guns and large artillery mortars. Some examples of smoothbore weapons are muskets, blunderbusses, and flintlock pistols. ...

handgun, and thus an AOW, rather than a short-barrelled shotgun. The Super-Shorty has been sold to various foreign customers, including the King of Jordan,

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. Serbu Firearms announced on its social media pages on June 7, 2022 that the Super-Shorty was officially discontinued due to it taking up too many resources from their main product lines for .50 caliber rifles.

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* : Various law enforcement agencies and the

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Official Site

SBSReview.Net: Super-Shorty Review & Videos
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