Greener Police Gun Mark III Special Bore Cartridge
Greener Police Mark III Special Brass Shotgun Cartridge
with a short history of the round, housed in an antique frame with bottle green mount and black baize background.
Size :- 235 x 220 (glass size)
Greener Police Gun Mk.III Cartridge
The Greener police shotgun is one of the most unusual shotguns which were employed by law enforcement organisations throughout the former British Empire. They can still be found in the hands of police officers in some more remote parts of the world, mostly in Asia and Africa.
The Greener police gun story began shortly after the WW1, when British colonial police forces requested a weapon, suitable for riot control and prison guard duty.
Greener police gun mark I appeared in around 1921, and tens of thousands were delivered to organisations like the Egyptian colonial police etc. However, it was soon discovered that criminals, who managed to get hold of Greener guns, used standard 16 gauge shells, tightly wrapped into paper or tape to fire from Greener guns.
To make commercial ammunition completely unusable, Greener responded with an improved design. The Greener police gun mark III. This gun used proprietary ammunition with a bottlenecked case made of brass, with a thick rim. The base of the case was roughly the same as a standard 12 gauge case, but towards the forward end of the shell, it has a reduced diameter equivalent to a 14 gauge shell size. To further complicate illegal use of its police shotgun, Greener provided its Mark III guns with trident-shaped strikers. Greener police shells had a grooved base and recessed primers, and any attempt to fire any commercially available shells from Greener guns would fail every time, as the side projections of the striker would hit the flat base of the shell, stopping the central part (the firing pin itself) before it could reach the primer.
The Greener police shot gun Mark III is a single shot weapon. It uses a Martini type hinged block action, controlled by a lever located below the stock.
