Non-NFA Shotgun?!? (Shockwave Technologies 14" bbl)

[AYOxITZxACE]

NOPE, either or.

A short-barreled shotgun means a firearm designed or redesigned to fire a fixed shotgun shell that has a barrel or barrels of less than 18 inches in length or an overall length of less than 26 inches;

nope, if made from a shotgun with a shoulderstock, even without a shoulderstock attached, it can be an SBS.

any weapon made from a shotgun which meets the barrel length or overall length criteria

doesn't say that has to "currently" be a shotgun to be an SBS.


what you might be thinking of are AOWs that are made from PG-only smoothbore long guns like the Mossberg Cruiser. they were never manufactured as shotguns, so the "any weapon made from a shotgun" portion of SBS never attaches to them.

Exactly. The shotgun I was considering modifying did not come with a buttstock from the manufacturer. So it wouldn't be a SBS, but an AOW instead. But since I live in the great republic of California, I can't get the tax stamp anyway.

[Sheepdog1968]

Personally, I'd avoid it. Just sounds like an expensive situation involving attorneys down the road.

[AYOxITZxACE]

Oh well. I'll just enjoy it by watching "The Book of Eli" then. <sigh>