Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about TAURUS JUDGE!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: the Taurus Judge is a five shot revolver designed and produced by Taurus International . the revolver is chambered for .410 bore shot shells and the .45 Colt cartridge . Taurus promotes Taurus developed the shallow rifling after numerous experiments . the Judge is considered a short-barreled shotgun under California state law . Felt recoil can be significant with the Ultra-Lite series Taurus is positioning the Public Defender series as a concealed carry piece . Taurus also introduced the tactical R Ported. Taurus 4510TKR-3SSR (stainless steel) offers a 3′′ ported barrel with a Picatinny rail . in 2010 Taurus introduced the Raging Judge chambered for . the gun never made it into production and no official statement was made by Taurus about the gun again . the carbine is known as the Taurus/Rossi Circuit Judge. Taurus designed the .45 Colt/.410 Judge to use bulleted cartridges and .410 shotshells . Taurus also paid attention to effectiveness with buckshot, positioning the Judge as a personal defense weapon Taurus introduced the Judge Magnum which can fire standard 2 12″ or 3″ .410 shotshells which contain five 000 buckshot and are more effective as personal defense rounds . in the original Judge chambering for standard the Remington Home Defense 2.5″ / 64mm 000 buckshot shell also contains 4 pellets . a cylinder full (6 shells) of 3″ .410 shot shells is the approximate equivalent of three blasts (30