This switch operates the Magazine cutoff. The cutoff enables the gun to open the chamber and remove the shell to insert a different shell into the chamber, but it is done while the magazine remains loaded. This way, the chamber can be emptied and the extra shells in the magazine will not automatically load. Recommend you use the link below to the Owners Manual for the A500 model. The Magazine Cutoff operations are shown on pages 29 and 30.
50-550 usd
about 550-600 dollars
Yes
This shotgun was manufactured from 1990-1993 in Belgium and assembled in Portgual, "g" stood for gas operated and there was another model called the a500r. The "r" meaning recoil operated. The receiver looked similar to the a-5 model, just not so square. These guns were replaced with the Browning Gold series.
You must call Browning to find out.
100-1000 USD or more depending on specifics.
FN built them Belgium and assembled them in Portugal, They could handle steel shot and the A5 cannot, There was a R= recoil model and a G= gas model with a self regulating gas system. Date of manufacture was late eighties to the real early nineties.
No
I dont think there is such a thing...
Check on the barrel flats
From Browning's website - "allowing the shooter to retain shells in the magazine and eject a shell from the chamber without feeding from the magazine."
It has two barrels, side by side. Most call it a double barrel.