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Barrel Length "legal"

gunnutgunnut Member Posts: 724 ✭✭✭✭
edited March 2002 in Ask the Experts
I have a friend that just picked up a shotgun w 2 barrels. One of the barrels is 18.5 inches when measured from end to end. Since a couple of inches is hidden when installed in the reciever is this a legal length?
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  • JudgeColtJudgeColt Member Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Legal barrel length on a shotgun is measured from the closed breech face to the barrel end. The barrel hood extension on a barrel like a Remington M1100, etc. is not part of the length because the breech face is forward of the hood when the breech is closed.
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  • sandman2234sandman2234 Member Posts: 894 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    If a barrel is too short for legal, and it is not installed on a firearm, is it OK? Just wondering because if the barrel in question also fits an AOW, you could put it up for sale to somebody that has an AOW or a SBS and not have to worry about getting "caught" with it. I have a Ithaca Model 37 AOW (12"barrel) and can change barrels to any lenght. I just can't put a shoulder stock on it. All of this is mentioned in case you find out that the barrel is too short, before you distroy it...check for somebody that might want an extra barrel. I do not know if your barrel is too short.
    Have Gun, will travel
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  • boeboeboeboe Member Posts: 3,331
    edited November -1
    My opinion, I think you would run into trouble possessing the short barrel and the shotgun it fit at the same time, if you were ever caught.Examples, it's okay to own full auto parts, such as the sear and bolt for an M16, but you can't own them at the same time you own an AR15. You can own full auto parts kits for an FAL, but not at the same time you own an FAL that could be converted to full auto.Another one, perhaps more similar, you can own either the High Standard derringer or the wallet holster for it, but can't own both at the same time.Provided, of course, that you have not jumped through the necessary legal hoops to own them at the same time.
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  • agloreaglore Member Posts: 6,012
    edited November -1
    boeboe, are you talking with or without a Class III firearms permit?
    AlleninAlaska
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  • sandman2234sandman2234 Member Posts: 894 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Saw a posted "ATF" letter that says the wishy-washy bunch will now let you own the High standard and the wallet at the same time, as long as you don't put them together. Put them together and you had better have a $5.00 permit for an AOW. ***I went back and reread that ATF letter and I am wrong. STILL CANNOT OWN BOTH THE DERRINGER AND THE HOLSTER AT THE SAME TIME WITHOUT THE FIVE DOLLAR PERMIT. Sorry for the misinformation. Go figger
    Have Gun, will travel[This message has been edited by sandman2234 (edited 03-24-2002).]
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  • gruntledgruntled Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You can own a Thompson Contender shoulder stock, short barrel, frame & a long barrelat the same time. Just don't assemble the frame, stock & short barrel. Don't know what would happen if you didn't own a long barrel.
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  • JIM STARKJIM STARK Member Posts: 1,150 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I believe that case was settled in a Supreme Court decision and they can sell them...so you can own them??/ HUH... any body else remember that flap????
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