The Germans declared that the use of tactical shotguns as `trench brooms’ (extremely effective) violated the 1907 Geneva Code and that any American captured while wielding such a weapon would be summarily executed.
The Allies counterthreatened reprisals, possibly against German POWs, and the issue became moot.
BTW, I own a Norinco copy of the Model 1897. It has no disconnector and shucks rounds like Lucas McCain in “The Rifleman”. Check it out on youtube.com
That’s a firearm before Congress decided to urinate on our God-given rights.
“In August 2003, the Bush administration imposed sanctions on Norinco for allegedly selling missile-related goods to Iran.[9] While not formally joining the multinational effort to restrict the proliferation of missiles, China did commit in 2000, not to assist in any way the development by other countries of MTCR-class missile technology. Neither the Chinese government nor Norinco has denied doing business with Iranian companies, although they did deny that it was for missile related purposes at the Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group, Iran’s key manufacturer of ballistic and non ballistic missiles.[10] Norinco has called the sanctions “groundless and unjustified” and “entirely unreasonable.”[11]
These sanctions led to a prohibition on imports into the US of the remaining types of firearms and ammunition not covered by the 1993 ban.
Current Projects
In May 2004, Norinco won the contract to build Tehran Subway Line 4 with Tehran Railway Company in Iran. The total amount of this contract is over 800 million (U.S. dollars) and is China’s biggest international project contract to date. The project is estimated to take up to six years to complete.”