Joe. erroneous information on the so-called History Channel, I looked it up; the U.S. Army purchased thousands of Model 12s for trench sweeping duty for the front line troops in World War One!!!!
Can you believe how terrified the Germans were of that sporting weapon to say that!!! All of those machine guns, bolt actions and of course all the gas they used and they said the Model 12 was inhumane!!!!
I took mine out, built in 1916, I'll have to admit and I might have to agree with the Germans it does look kind of sinister!!!