ANOTHER SCHOOL/PUBLIC SHOOTING

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There is also a minimum legal overall length for a non NFA [national firearms act] firearm. The minimum OAL [Over all length] , without filing the NFA paperwork , is 26 inches. However, If that shotgun was originally a full length shotgun and if the owner filed the SBS [short barreled shotgun] NFA paperwork with the ATF, paid the $200.00 tax and was approved by the ATF all those lengths go right out the window. If that paperwork and tax was taken care of that shotgun could have ben as short as the owner wanted.

Then there is another option. It is called a AOW [any other weapon] category. If a firearm was never assembled as a long gun it can legally be assembled into a shotgun/handgun. That consists of filing the AOW paperwork with the ATF, paying a $200.00 tax and building the gun. In fact there is a company that produces and sells what the call a super shorty shotgun. The OAL on that is just 16.5 inches, and it is a 12 gauge pump action shotgun.

There are many different rules and regs that would allow a person to own a 12 gauge pump shotgun that they could easily hide under a windbreaker/light shirt.


Link to the super shorty . http://www.serbu.com/top/superShorty.php


Here is a link to a post an another forum that explaines the NFA process much better than I can. http://www.ar15.com/content/page.html?id=489