I understand that guns made to look like other things such as cell phones, hidden inside of a knife, etc. makes it an "AOW", under the NFA. Someone makes a wallet holster designed to make a small .380 pistol look like a wallet, and even that (or the holster+gun) is classified as an AOW.
I recently purchased a holster that makes my Ruger LC9 look more like a wallet to avoid obvious printing (I pocket carry only) and it can be fired without taking the wallet out of the holster. But, because the slide is not concealed by the holster, it's not classified as an AOW.
The new Taurus Curve got me thinking. I don't want to debate the pros/cons of the Curve which seems to polarize people. But, I was wondering what if Taurus took this design a little farther and made the gun basically hard to recognize as a gun, but didn't attempt to hide it inside some other non-gun device? Would such a gun be classified as an AOW, or would it just be an ordinary pistol?
I recently purchased a holster that makes my Ruger LC9 look more like a wallet to avoid obvious printing (I pocket carry only) and it can be fired without taking the wallet out of the holster. But, because the slide is not concealed by the holster, it's not classified as an AOW.
The new Taurus Curve got me thinking. I don't want to debate the pros/cons of the Curve which seems to polarize people. But, I was wondering what if Taurus took this design a little farther and made the gun basically hard to recognize as a gun, but didn't attempt to hide it inside some other non-gun device? Would such a gun be classified as an AOW, or would it just be an ordinary pistol?