China’s Small Home-Defense Shotguns Are Exposing a $1,500 Lie — Here’s How

China’s Small Home-Defense Shotguns Are Exposing a $1,500 Lie — Here’s How You are standing in a gun shop, looking at two pump-action shotguns racked side by side on the same wall. They look almost identical. Same basic silhouette, same sliding forend, same length of pull, same twelve-gauge bore waiting to send a shell downrange. One of them is polished black, stamped with a name every hunter and home defender in America would recognize on sight. The other is a plainer matte finish, a name you've probably never heard of. You check the first tag. $1,799.