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Jim Rau

In today's gun unfriendly governmental environment I would:
1. Not post it on the Internet.
2. Destroy it.

makindu

Explain to your local police dept what happened, turn the gun over to them to be destroyed, and buy yourself a used H&R single shotgun or similar gun. Easily done for $75-$100 at many small town pawn shops. Other option is to remove the current barrel from your shotgun, and find a used replacement barrel. And destroy the barrel that is too short.

beantownshootah

Let's say PURELY AS A HYPOTHETICAL someone accidentally sawed down a standard shotgun barrel to 16.5" inches instead of the legal limit of 18.5".

There would be three options to "fix" this, short of destroying the entire gun and buying a new one (which might actually be the most cost-effective solution, depending on the cost of the original gun):


a. IMMEDIATELY remove and DESTROY the too short barrel (like RIGHT NOW), then have it replaced with a suitable legal length replacement barrel. This is probably the best option, in terms of legality and cost-effectiveness (depending on the model of gun).

b. Extend the illegal barrel to legal length with a PERMANENT (ie welded on) steel barrel extension.

This one is only for competent metalworkers, and it will sort of "bubbafy" the gun, though that's arguably better than destroying it entirely. Obviously, you don't want to be holding an illegal gun for ANY length of time, if you can help it, and it might not be a bad idea to immediately remove the barrel from the gun, if you are able to do that!

c. Its possible to LEGALLY own a short-barreled shotgun in many jurisdictions, assuming you have done the proper Federal paperwork *IN ADVANCE* of creating or transferring the gun, and paid the appropriate taxes.

So if the proper paperwork were done, and THEN AFTERWARDS the short-barreled shotgun were created, well, you could keep it.