A long time back when California was much looser I had a BHE Parker that had met the same fate, it was a rose and scroll engraved gun with no saftey. The barrels were cut at the end of the forend, I had John Foster block the barrels and make a new rib, it was less expensive then (under 400.00) found out later that the original barrels were 34".

I learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what I learned the day before was wrong