The TOZ-87 (ТОЗ-87) is a Soviet gas-operated semi-automatic shotgun.
[2][6] The shotgun MTs 24-12 was designed in 1978-1987 in TsKIB SOO, as a successor to the MTs 21-12 (the first Soviet semi-automatic shotgun), under the leadership of N.V.
[7] In 1987 it was renamed to TOZ-87[2][4] and Tula Arms Plant began serial production of the shotgun.
[6][1] After the fall of the Soviet Union due to the economic crisis in Russian Federation in the 1990s, the prices of firearms increased.
[1] It has a beech or walnut fore-end and shoulder stock with rubber recoil pad on it.