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There was a pump rifle/shotgun called the Crossfire.
It sold for about $1300 and was actually in production.
12 ga. over .223
As I recall it was never really popular,
That is sort of an understatement. The firearm weighed just under 9 lbs, and the pump action was quite difficult to operate. It suffered reliability problems, which prompted a recall not long after it went on sale, that then immediately tarnished the gun's reputation from the beginning.
The gun was developed during the brief period that Colt Industries owned Saco Defense ( the maker of the Crossfire ), and went on sale in 1999. Colt had acquired Saco partially to manufacture the Colt Light Rifle sporting bolt action rifles. However, the Colt Light Rifle project was not a commercial success, and Colt then cancelled the rifle line and sold Saco to General Dynamics in 2000. General Dynamics wanted nothing to do with the Crossfire, and thus the gun was killed very quickly after a very brief life.
So the gun is actually quite rare, and is pretty much sold as a collectible, and not for actual use.
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