To: big ern
"The govt./prosecutors have a different defenition of length than the avg. person. They open the top break on the shotgun and and now that the shotgun is shaped like this ^ they measure from the butt to the end of the barrel.
The distance is now shorter and illegal."Sorry, you're wrong. Barrel length (min. 18" for shotguns) and overall length (min. 26") are measured in the "assembled" condition, not folded!
40 posted on
08/21/2002 11:51:39 AM PDT by
Redbob
To: Redbob
Neither one of us is wrong. You are correct in your statement of the law but I'm correct as to how they got Weaver indicted.
That is how they did it to Weaver (got the indictment) as per the Bill Moyers special on A&E, if he is to be believed.
Somehow I doubt Moyers would throw that in there just to make the govt. look bad seeing how Moyers is as liberal as they come in the media.
To: Redbob
Doesn't stop the BATF. For them, unfinished metal blanks are recievers for "automatic weapons."
They're a really crummy bunch of people.
115 posted on
09/29/2006 1:31:10 PM PDT by
Little Ray
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