Why it matters: The PSA 570 is Palmetto State Armory's modular 12-gauge pump shotgun, teased at SHOT Show for two years before it shipped this summer. A review from an owner who bought one at retail says the gun stopped working within about 250 rounds.
Brass Facts, a YouTube channel that reviews guns its host buys at retail, has published a review of the Palmetto State Armory 570 titled "I Do Not Recommend the PSA 570." The host reports roughly 15 failures to extract over about 200 to 250 rounds, one jam that required the shotgun to be taken apart at the range, and a final failure in which the trigger group came out of the receiver. He says he has asked PSA for a warranty repair and is waiting on an answer.
The host says he went in hopeful. He describes the 570 as a modular, modernized pump gun in a category that has seen little new design in years. He says much of the excitement that followed PSA's first teaser has since turned into skepticism about the price, and that he had a second reason to want the gun to work: a reflex-style suppressor he says is coming for the 570, which mounts on a muzzle device and extends back over the barrel. He says that design would let him suppress the gun without moving to a short-barreled configuration and without adding much overall length.
PSA 570 price and features against Mossberg and Maverick
The review spends its first section on value. The host's gun is the Magpul-furniture model, which lists at $550. He says the version with PSA's own furniture costs about $100 less and is functionally similar, and that in hindsight he should have bought it. PSA's stock, he notes, closely resembles Magpul's SGA design.
By his estimate, the furniture accounts for about $75 of the price on the PSA model and $150 to $180 on the Magpul model. He argues it is worth having on a defensive shotgun: the pistol-grip angle allows a more modern shooting stance than a traditional stock, and the slimmer forend has sling mounting points and room for a weapon light. Most owners of a fully equipped pump gun, he says, would end up buying a set like it anyway.
He credits most of the remaining value to the receiver's factory cut for an RMR-footprint red dot. Cheaper shotguns, he says, need gunsmithing or a saddle mount to carry an optic, and drilled-and-tapped receivers on higher-end guns put the sight high enough to hurt the cheek weld with a standard stock. He also lists the tang safety, an adjustable sling mount, twin action bars and the 7+1 capacity.
For comparison he points to the Mossberg Maverick 88, which he says has a longer track record at about half the price, and to Mossberg's 500, 590 and 590A1 at the top of the tactical pump market. At $550 he calls the 570 steep. He says that at a sale price around $475 it would be good value and a capable setup out of the box, provided it works.
Extraction failures and a trigger group that came loose
The host says the problems began with about three failures to extract using generic birdshot, despite the gun's dual extractors, and grew to about 15 over time. The worst came during a clay-shooting session. A spent shell stayed in the chamber, the next stroke of the pump fed a fresh shell into the back of it, and the action locked up. He says clearing it meant taking the shotgun apart, and because one retaining part needs a proprietary tool he did not have at the range, the gun was done for the day.
“The host says he does not view the failures as a quality-control problem, but as an engineering fault likely to repeat until PSA redesigns the part.”
J.D. Whitfield, The ReticleOn the next range trip, about 50 rounds into a session with mini-shells, he says the trigger group came out of the gun. In the video he shows it dislodging again as he works the pump. He describes his theory of the cause as speculation: the group's front tabs appear to carry most of the force of cycling, with the pins only holding it in place, and he suspects that high-brass turkey loads left over from an earlier video, combined with hard pumping to clear the extraction failures, wore the parts until they sheared.
PSA 570 warranty request and the first-generation question
The host says he would normally test a second, properly prepared gun to rule out a single bad example, but did not, for two reasons. First, he says he submitted a return request to PSA, received a reply two days later asking for more details, and supplied them, then heard nothing more in the more than two weeks before he finished the video. He says he will post a pinned comment if PSA responds.
Second, he says he does not view the failures as a quality-control problem. He compares the 570 to PSA's Jakl, which he says launched with a charging-handle sled that broke at higher round counts, and the Dagger pistol, which he says launched with roll pins that worked loose. In his view, PSA's first-generation designs tend to have engineering faults that repeat across guns until the company redesigns them, which he says PSA usually does. His advice to viewers is to avoid the first generation of the 570.
The video is sponsored by Venture Surplus, a clothing retailer.
For context
- Palmetto State Armory showed the 570 as a concept at SHOT Show in January 2024 and launched it on July 24, 2026, in four models.
- The 570 is a 12-gauge pump with 3-inch chambers, a seven-round magazine tube, an 18.5-inch cylinder-bore barrel and an RMR-cut receiver, listed at $450 with PSA furniture and $550 with Magpul MOE furniture.
- A reflex suppressor extends back over the barrel, so it adds less overall length than a conventional suppressor of the same size.
- Suppressors are regulated under the National Firearms Act, and a shotgun with a barrel shorter than 18 inches is a short-barreled shotgun under the same law.
