dakota.potts
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As it was explained to me the other day, a Rossi Ranch Hand is legal because it was built in that configuration as a handgun. You couldn't cut a regular rifle down, and I don't think you could add a full length stock (without NFA of course) but as is it's a handgun.
It just got me thinking, could this same logic be used for a Ranch Hand or chambered in say a 20 ga. shotgun? It seems to me that a lot of people have practical uses for short barreled shotguns and that this would be a way that you cold legally get one without going through the NFA?
Would it be legal to buy one and have it re-chambered in a shotgun configuration? Of course, I have to imagine this would cost as much as the tax stamp.
Is there any such thing as "pistol shotgun" in the eyes of the law?
It just got me thinking, could this same logic be used for a Ranch Hand or chambered in say a 20 ga. shotgun? It seems to me that a lot of people have practical uses for short barreled shotguns and that this would be a way that you cold legally get one without going through the NFA?
Would it be legal to buy one and have it re-chambered in a shotgun configuration? Of course, I have to imagine this would cost as much as the tax stamp.
Is there any such thing as "pistol shotgun" in the eyes of the law?