[El Gato]

This is not a short barreled shotgun. An SBS is intended to be fired from the shoulder. A shotgun with short barrels and a pistol grip, like the one in post 5, is classed as 'Any Other Weapon,' AOW.

In common usage and in NFA regulations (I think) but the actual law (Title 18 section 921 (a) (6)) defines the "less than 26" overall" weapon as a short barreled shotgun.

[sig226]

Somewhere else in the definitions it defines a shotgun as, 'intended to be fired from the shoulder.' I haven't got the book at home and we were jammed at work today, so we will probably be jammed tommorrow, so I don't think I can look it up.

Personally, I like the AOW designation better anyway, because it is only a $5.00 SOT, and I've always wanted a pistol grip sawed off side by side, like some redneck moonshiner from hell might have. When I find a Stevens or a Stoeger for cheap enough, I'm going to have one made.