My longest-lived Saiga retired with 9,000 rounds on the clock. The ones that worked required significant maintenance every 2,000 to 3,000 rounds - cleaning up rough edges, and replacing worn parts and springs. They also said that sporting purpose may change over time, acknowledging the existence of three-gun and other action shooting sports that use shotguns, but stated it was beyond the scope of the study to determine if this was indeed a sporting purpose. In 2011, the ATF conducted a study on the importability of various shotguns, determining that detachable magazines weren’t inherently unsporting. A cottage industry of converting imported “sporting” variants back into their original configurations popped up, and once that fire was lit, more foreign manufacturers and importers got into the game of selling magazine-fed shotguns. Multiple manufacturers started making Saiga magazines with higher capacities domestically. With the ban gone in 2004, over the next several years, magazine-fed shotguns became more desirable. And besides, it was Russian, poorly finished, and ugly as sin. Until the ban sunset in 2004, the Saiga-12 went largely unnoticed there wasn’t much advantage to a detachable magazine-fed shotgun limited to five rounds, versus tube fed guns that could have as many as could fit (so long as it didn’t have other features). The Saiga-12, based on the Kalashnikov platform, was designed and imported during the federal ban years with five-round magazines and a non-pistol grip stock.
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