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mstraus · Apr 16, 2014

Ok here is a total bubba project I thought about yesterday:

Procure cheap single shot breech 12ga from pawn shop
Procure 12ga to 40 S&W barrel insert (8 inch insert)
Tig insert into barrel
Cut barrel down to 12 inches and move bead sight to new barrel end and re-crown barrel.

What class of firearm would this be after mods. I am assuming pistol due to welding of insert.

there is no real purpose for this gun. Sorta like a jackalope.

Opinions????

damifinowfish · Apr 16, 2014

I was liking it until you made it a shorty and went into the gray area with Barny Fife AKA jonny law.
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iH8DemLibz · Apr 16, 2014

I'm going with illegal short barreled rifle/shotgun if you cut it to 12".

This is along the lines of cutting a rifled slug barrel down to 16" and then putting it back on a shotgun (18") receiver.

My opinion is that it would be legal due to the rifling, but I won't do it.

airsporter · Apr 16, 2014

Okay until you cut to 12" w/o BATF approval & stamp. You would be "manufacturing" a short barrel rifle/shotgun. Even with BATF approval, probably a no-go in Md.

mstraus · Apr 16, 2014

Yea would be cool but Not up to the legal battle. Marylandistan is such a great place to be a firearms collector. Thanks for the input guys. Gonna pass but it was fun dreaming.

Biggfoot44 · Apr 16, 2014

In the rest of the country would be a SBR. In Md with the latest *Advisory Letter* would have issues about being a pistol. But not being a semiauto , won't have 26 vs 29in issues. Ironically not as silly an idea as you intended. Among fans of single shot rifles , there is intrest in light weight handy rifles in nominally pistol cals.

The problem with the other hypothetical fully rifled 12ga , is that it inherently depends on the BATF ruling on rifled shotguns being shotguns , to prevent it from being a Destructive Device (ie rifle larger than .50 cal).

iH8DemLibz · Apr 16, 2014

Cut that sucker at 16-1/2 inches and your dream can come true.

You can even drill and tap that receiver for a scope base now that you have more meat to work with.

You can't come on here talking about Bubba this and Bubba that and then not go all Bubbafication on something.

Buy it. Chop it. Shoot it.

lsw · Apr 16, 2014

How about chambering in 10mm instead?

Xander · Apr 16, 2014

iH8DemLibz said:
I'm going with illegal short barreled rifle/shotgun if you cut it to 12".

This is along the lines of cutting a rifled slug barrel down to 16" and then putting it back on a shotgun (18") receiver.

My opinion is that it would be legal due to the rifling, but I won't do it.

This would not be legal.

d) Shotgun
The term “shotgun” means a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of the explosive in a fixed shotgun shell to fire through a smooth bore either a number of projectiles (ball shot) or a single projectile for each pull of the trigger, and shall include any such weapon which may be readily restored to fire a fixed shotgun shell.

Magnumite · Apr 17, 2014

Or you could take a short cut and buy a T/C Contender or Encore pistol chambered in 10mm and be as rifle accurate as any pistol could be.

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