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Question re Legality Revolving Shotgun
rhmc24
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Almost six weeks ago I sent an email to ATFTips@atf.gov describing my revolving shotgun I have built for hunting purpose, requesting information and/or instruction as to its legality. I sent photos and described it giving dimensions. It has a loading gate where the rounds are loaded one at a time or ejected one at a time with a push rod located in its sleeve alongside the barrel. It is loaded and unloaded in the same way as the old Colt Single Action Army revolver. An under lever revolves it and cocks it. I made a DVD of the construction process which I offered. Does anyone have experience with what I can expect in regard to a reply? Thanks, Robert
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added: I think the street sweeper used a detachable drum magazine whereas this is not easily detachable. I think you did a great job on it with some great engineering. I hope they do green light it as it resembles something that may have been used in the 1800s.
Re: BATFE- the prohibition on Street Sweeper type shotguns was due to a stated "Lack of Sporting Purpose"- that is required for anything over .50 cal, and how the revolving .410 shotgun gets around that. Your challenge will, in my uneducated opinion, lie in showing the "sporting purpose" of the shotgun, to distinguish it from Streetsweeper/ Stryker 12s, etc. Otherwise, they will declare it a destructive device, require that it be forfeited for destruction.
Hoping that someone with a greater kowledge of Class III will jump in here, and confirm or tell me I'm full of crap (Mark! Where are you?)
Did you apply for a patent for the thing? You could probably at least build a few of them for the movie industry and make a few bucks.
What inspired you to do this project?
As far as hunting purpose? I think you may have bigger fish to fry if it turns out you need a license to build a gun from scratch and don't have one.
I believe you need an 07? manufacturors license to make a firearm, not real sure but it might have been a better idea to find out the legalities of it before you sent a picture of your making it in picture to the ATF.
As far as hunting purpose? I think you may have bigger fish to fry if it turns out you need a license to build a gun from scratch and don't have one.
No, you don't need a license to build for personal use.
RHMC24: I don't believe there will be an answer to your email... if you do get one I bet it will take almost a year and then they will direct you to send a sample to the tech branch for review.
The Streetsweeper was listed by NAME to be DD (destructive device) which is not illegal just requires NFA paperwork, if it was by feature there would be many more shotguns out there that were on the NFA list.
As the others have stated it will take a LONG time (probably a year or more) to get a response.