[Atlas Sneezed]

One reason sawed-off shotguns are illegal is because they have a larger pattern at close range.

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But they aren’t illegal, they merely must be registered with an inconvenient federal process.

[dirtboy]

But they aren’t illegal, they merely must be registered with an inconvenient federal process.

Which basically makes them functionally illegal to the average person interested in a home defense weapon, given the difficulty and cost of that process.