Strange Obrez Trapdoor Springfield at Guns Fishing and Other Stuff

[Johhny]

Sorry, I didn't take a photo of it when I was there.

At Guns Fishing and Other Stuff in Vacaville, I saw a Trapdoor Springfield cut down to pistol length (like an obrez) in the blackpowder case, just to the left of the stairs as you walk off the stairs onto the second floor. It was $400.

To my knowledge, the NFA makes illegal any pistol made from a cartridge using rifle or shotgun without proper paperwork, regardless of antique status.

Has anyone else seen this strange Trapdoor Springfield at Guns and Fishing before? Has anyone seen anything like this anywhere before? The only historical explanation I can think of for the creation of this oddity is some outlaw in the old west cutting down a Trapdoor to use as a pistol. I always thought that this practice was rather uncommon in the US, at least for the rifle to pistol conversion.

[billybob_jcv]

Could it have been an "antique firearm"?

(g) Antique firearm
The term “antique firearm” means any firearm not designed or redesigned for using rim fire or conventional center fire ignition with fixed ammunition and manufactured in or before 1898 (including any matchlock, flintlock, percussion cap, or similar type of ignition system or replica thereof, whether actually manufactured before or after the year 1898) and also any firearm using fixed ammunition manufactured in or before 1898, for which ammunition is no longer manufactured in the United States and is not readily available in the ordinary channels of commercial trade.

[19K]

Sorry, I didn't take a photo of it when I was there.

At Guns Fishing and Other Stuff in Vacaville, I saw a Trapdoor Springfield cut down to pistol length (like an obrez) in the blackpowder case, just to the left of the stairs as you walk off the stairs onto the second floor. It was $400.

To my knowledge, the NFA makes illegal any pistol made from a cartridge using rifle or shotgun without proper paperwork, regardless of antique status.

Has anyone else seen this strange Trapdoor Springfield at Guns and Fishing before? Has anyone seen anything like this anywhere before? The only historical explanation I can think of for the creation of this oddity is some outlaw in the old west cutting down a Trapdoor to use as a pistol. I always thought that this practice was rather uncommon in the US, at least for the rifle to pistol conversion.

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