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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 4217063" data-attributes="member: 26737">A bunch of older shooters swore by the Model 12 because it had no disconnector on the trigger, so it could slam fire—just hold the trigger and it would go bang every time you racked the slide, at least until the magazine ran dry. Until the Benelli came onto the scene, you couldn’t get a scattergun with a faster rate of fire, so it held the speed shooting records for shotguns. The Model 12 also played a key role in the Union Station Massacre. As I recall the story told by a UMKC professor in his book on the subject (The Union Station Massacre: The Original Sin of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI), one of the LEOs assigned to guard the prisoner was using a Model 12, but he was not at all familiar with it, and he managed to kill and/or wound both the prisoner and another LEO because he kept his booger hook on the bang switch while racking the slide.</blockquote>