page_title: Browning Citori
section_title: Features
hierarchical_section_title: Browning Citori / Features
caption_attribution_description: English: United States President Barack Obama shoots clay targets on the range at Camp David, Maryland on Saturday, 4 August 2012. The side jet of smoke is from holes in the ported gun barrels.Following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on 14 December 2012, Obama argued for tighter gun controls in the United States. In an interview in the New Republic on 27 January 2013, Obama was asked "Have you ever fired a gun?" and he replied, "Yes, in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time."Following the interview, the White House released this picture on Flickr on 1 February 2013 at 6.25 PM PST, and the following day the White House Press Secretary released it on his Twitter account.
context_page_description: The Browning Citori is a double-barreled shotgun of the "over-and-under" or "stacked-barrel" type, with one barrel above the other.
  The Citori is manufactured in a wide variety of models, styles, and gauges to accommodate enthusiasts of clay target games such as trap, skeet, and sporting clays, as well as upland bird and waterfowl hunters.
  The Citori is marketed and distributed by the Browning Arms Company in Morgan, Utah. It is manufactured for Browning by the Miroku Corporation in Nangoku, Japan.
context_section_description: Browning Citoris come in all of the popular shotgun shell gauges, and are made in an over-under "stacked"  barrel configuration, with forends and buttstocks made from high quality walnut wood.  Barrel lengths can be purchased from 26 inches for skeet shooting to 32 inches for sporting clays and trap shooting.  The top barrel has a vented rib attached by soldering for the entire length of the barrel tube.  Newer Citori internal barrels are chrome-lined for added surface strength.  All metal parts are bright blued for the standard model.  "In-the-white" higher grade models with more elaborate machine-applied engraving can also be purchased.  Rubber recoil butt pads (12 gauge) or plastic butt plates (sub-gauges) are standard.  Citori actions are made with internal hammers and coil springs and all Citori models have shell ejectors, which expel spent shells when the breech is opened by pressing aside the top lever and bending the action fully open, which also re-cocks the internal hammers.
  The Browning Citori has a single, gold-plated trigger.  A barrel selector mechanism is used to choose whether the top or bottom barrel fires first. The barrel selector is combined with the manual safety and is located at the top rear of the receiver, behind the top lever. If the first shot misfires and the gun does not recoil, the trigger can be reset to fire the second shot. This is accomplished by moving the safety/barrel selector back to the "safe" position and then forward to the "fire" position, without changing the barrel selection. Opening the action does not automatically engage the safety mechanism.
  Current Citoris feature screw-in Invector choke tubes to regulate shot patterns downrange and thus provide versatility for usage in hunting and target shooting.  These can be used with either lead, bismuth, or steel shot.  Older models had factory fixed chokes, and steel shot is not recommended for use with those.
  Some newer 12 gauge and 20 gauge Citori models have back-bored barrels. These are barrels with slightly larger bore diameters. Their purpose is to improve shot patterns by reducing the friction of the shot charge on the barrel wall, while also reducing felt recoil.  Models with back-bored barrels use Invector Plus choke tubes.
caption: United States President Barack Obama firing a Browning Citori 525 on the range at Camp David.[1] The side jet of smoke is from the ported barrel.
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