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Break Action Double Barrel - One trigger pull, both barrels shoot - a machine gun?

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  • JoeTheShooter
    Junior Member
    • Apr 2009
    • 18

    Break Action Double Barrel - One trigger pull, both barrels shoot - a machine gun?

    Federal Law and California Law define a machine gun as follows:

    The term "machinegun" as used in this chapter means any
    weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can readily be restored
    to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual
    reloading, by a single function of the trigger. The term shall also
    include the frame or receiver of any such weapon, any part designed
    and intended solely and exclusively, or combination of parts designed
    and intended, for use in converting a weapon into a machinegun, and
    any combination of parts from which a machinegun can be assembled if
    such parts are in the possession or under the control of a person.
    If an old school break action side by side double barreled shotgun has a trigger mechanism that allows for shooting both barrels at once with one pull of the trigger, is that a machine gun?
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    Clinton
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2009
    • 890

    I'm not aware of any shotguns that fire both barrels with ONE pull of the trigger. Even old school double trigger models don't meet "machine gun" requirements even though both barrels can be fired at the same time. Single trigger models require two trigger pulls.
    Do have a specific example?
    Last edited by Clinton; 02-24-2010, 11:47 PM.
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      JoeTheShooter
      Junior Member
      • Apr 2009
      • 18

      Originally posted by Clinton
      I'm not aware of any shotguns that fire both barrels with ONE pull of the trigger. Even old school double trigger models don't meet "machine gun" requirements event though both barrels can be fired at the same time. Single trigger models require two trigger pulls.
      Do have a specific example?

      My dad owned a double barrel shotgun with 3 triggers. One trigger fired the left barrel, one trigger the right barrel, and one trigger fired both barrels simultaneously. It was a double barreled smaller gauge shotgun. But as I got thinking about it, it made me wonder if someone somewhere would consider it a machine gun...

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        Clinton
        Senior Member
        • Mar 2009
        • 890

        Originally posted by JoeTheShooter
        My dad owned a double barrel shotgun with 3 triggers. One trigger fired the left barrel, one trigger the right barrel, and one trigger fired both barrels simultaneously. It was a double barreled smaller gauge shotgun. But as I got thinking about it, it made me wonder if someone somewhere would consider it a machine gun...
        Hmmm...... I haven't ever seen one of those. However, not sure even that set up could be considered a machine gun. If both barrels go off at the same time and not consecutively, it could be considered one shot. On such an old gun, I wouldn't worry about it anyway.
        "CGF, so powerful we must be the NRA"

        - Gene Hoffman

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