If the shotgun started out life with a barrel shorter than 16", it's an AOW and a $5 tax. If you take a shotgun and shorten the barrel to less than 16", it's a short barreled shotgun (SBS) and now a $200 tax.

confusing but just depends on when it was shortened, berfore or after the serial number was listed as "manufacturered "

But what's the penalty if you don't happen to have paid the $200 ATF tax (which I bet the Russians haven't?) I think the cosmonauts then go to the Yankee gulag... <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Just seeing this topic reminds me of a story I heard from a friend of mine that works for NASA. While the US was spending millions of dollars for a pen that would write in space and over grease and upsidedown and ... (you get the idea), the russians came up with a much cheaper alternative... they used pencils.

What a concept... <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Snopes says that's not true

Russian Space Pencil

sorry

FYI, unless NFA '34 has been ammended in the past two years, it's 18" for a shotgun barrel, 16" for rifle barrels.

It's me who misquoted the regs. I meant it humorously and, sadly, it isn't. I apologize. I think it's a pretty cool gun. I'd like to have it. And I think that it would be very useful. Too bad we can't have one here in the land of the free without paying through the nose. <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

That's okay. Just don't start calling magazines clips and we'll all get along just fine. LOL <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

what the heck would he do with the gun? Is he afraid of getting rorb by aliens? that will be news broadcast. " Aliens rob astrounaut on space station. Robber took several spacesuite and food, swiss army knife, underwear. " <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

In the past i've been guilty of that one too! <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />