For all that, though, it is firearms where Burgess truly made his mark. One of the most interesting and distinctive guns he designed was a pump-action folding shotgun in the 1890s. The pump action ...

Long before the folding shotgun concept became the province of relatively inexpensive break-open “utility guns,” there was the Burgess pump-action designed by Andrew Burgess. Made from 1894 to 1899 at ...

Unlike those rare curiosities that most of us will never even see, let alone fire (like the Burgess folding shotgun and the Pancor Jackhammer), the shotguns shown here are available for purchase ...