Introduced at this year's SHOT Show, the new A5 in 20 gauge with the kinematic/inertia action. I really want one, but two sources more knowledgeable than I tell me it will be very hard to actually get one. I've messaged back and forth with Randy Wakeman and talked in person to Dr. Jim Willingham who is a fairly high volume dealer in north Alabama, and here's what we know about an American citizen like myself purchasing one of these:

-- The shotguns might become available in March 2024, ... June 2024, ... or sometime later even though they have been in production for about a year.
-- *If* you can get a dealer to put in an early order for one, you might have to pay the full $2,000 up front (or perhaps a deposit up front), and then who knows if your gun will ever arrive because, according to both men, "Browning is very unpredictable these days."
-- You won't be able to handle and check the new A5 for fit as we have always been coached to do. You must commit to purchase before ever seeing or handling your shotgun. They won't be sitting on the gun store rack.
-- According to Mr. Wakeman, long gone are the days you could find Brownings sitting on a dealer's rack where you can handle and look at them before purchase.

All this makes me hesitant to put a bunch of money down even as much as I want one of these. I miss the good old days of gun buying.

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