Posted on 05/10/2002 10:35:56 AM PDT by Richard Poe
Per NFA'34, a firearm with a bore over ½" is a "destructive device" unless the Treasury Secretary deems it suitable for "sporting purposes". A 28ga shotgun should be chokable down to 0.499" without any problem; a 20ga or 12ga would require a larger bore.
But I doubt they will ever have the guts to flat outlaw 12 ga shotguns. - Bullpup 'style' sure, they will no doubt try.
They already have. But regulations require enabling legislation; there is no enabling legislation that would allow them to ban a double-barrel or semi-auto bull-pup shotgun whose bore size was 0.499".
Actually, there are already a variety of interesting non-class-III guns available that shoot .410 shotshells. For example, I've seen a revolver which holds five .410" shotshells and has probably about a 3" rifled barrel; the rifling is not for accuracy, but rather to make the thing be a "handgun" rather than a "shotgun". My suggestion to use .28ga, possibly in a longer cartridge, is intended to produce something more powerful than a .410 in "interesting" configurations.
On 12 February 1999, the US Army Armaments Research, Development, and Engineering Center awarded a contract to Heckler and Koch, in Sterling, Virginia for a 12 gauge semi-automatic shotgun, the new HK/Benelli M4 Super 90 (M4S90) for the US Armed Forces.
Designated the XM1014 Joint Services Combat Shotgun (JSCS), the shotgun was developed by Benelli Armi S.p.A. of Urbino, Italy for HK, Inc.
It comes stock with an 18.5" barrel, but if you'd like you can get a militia approved 14" barrel. So apparently barrels less than 21" are appropriate militia weapons; incorrect understanding of English language grammer with respect to the 2nd Ammendment notwithstanding. Dah. What lumbskulls them judges are.
You are such an extremist... ;P
While jogging in Europe I was harassed regularly by dum dogs, and I can tell you, it is very humiliating to find yourself intimidated and helpless against an inferior animal that rounds you like a sheep. Gun-controlers need to live by their words, with dogs barking around them, helpless, and then they can let us know if they like their sheeple lives.
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Personally, I would consider a short-barrelled shotgun (10-12") a nearly ideal weapon for dispatching critters. It would fit nicely in the console of the truck, too. For years I carried around a 22 under the back seat, and am still surprised at how often it came in handy. Took up a lot of room, though.
In my state you can't have a handgun in the passenger compartment, so the options are pretty limited without some sort of lockable storage in the truck bed.
Only if you view guns a sexual objects. Do you?
Thanks for the welcome. Actually, I first joined FreeRepublic.com in March 1999, but under a different name.
I re-registered under my real name on March 1, 2002, figuring that would be more appropriate for the purpose of posting my own articles. At least people would know who to blame for the posts.
Instead, we get decades of creeping legislation.
I'm no constitutional scholar, but any fool can read the thing and understand the meaning and intent. "The People" throughout the document clearly means individual citizens. Free speech rights have been construed out to the hilt in sophist interpretation to include flag-burning and child porn. But, when it comes to the 2nd, everyone becomes a bunch of scalian textualists.
Come on, guys. Do the honest thing -- amend the constitution, or follow the letter and spirit of our founding documents.
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