Smith and Wesson Model 3000 Police Shotgun

[HVACGuy]

So I ran across a Smith and Wesson Model 3000 police shotgun at my local pawn shop. It seemed to be missing the slide stop. I know the history of these, but have no personal experience with them. I liked the look of it, and the price is pretty cheap, but I'm wondering how a shotty operates without a slide stop, and is it even legal? Seems that when you cycle the action with the trigger held down, that it would fire every time it was pumped...

 

[whiskerz]

It is legal since you have to manually cycle the gun. Same as the old Ithaca guns. Lawyers ended that feature

 

[HVACGuy]

So basically it acts like a slamfire? Perhaps the missing parts were intentional? I know they also regularly broke on these models..