Upon further reflection, I'm going to take this theory a step further: the "normal mode" is pull-twice-to-fire, and the "binary mode" is normal. Still fits the definition, since you're firing 1:2 or 2:1, but not 1:1.I think you are close. If I were going to game that definition of rifle, one thing I could do is install a mechanism where I needed to pull the trigger twice to fire. Remember, it says "each" single pull of the trigger. If it doesn't fire on "each" pull, it's not a rifle. That would be obnoxious to use, but would not meet the definition of rifle.
Well said erwos.Upon further reflection, I'm going to take this theory a step further: the "normal mode" is pull-twice-to-fire, and the "binary mode" is normal. Still fits the definition, since you're firing 1:2 or 2:1, but not 1:1.
I thought barrel length is measured from terminal crown of the barrel to the bolt face, in battery.
Yeah, I knew that. Was trying to be subtle.It is. That is what the ATF has on its website as to how a barrel's length is measured.
Yeah, I knew that. Was trying to be subtle.
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Yeah, you know me and "subtle". Black and white, night and day, rich and poor, fabs and subtle. lol
Doesn't the definition.state one pull?As a FFL and SOT holder, I would consider this an SBR unless I had documentation from the ATF otherwise. A rifle subject to the NFA has a barrel of less than 16 inches in length. The ATF procedure for measuring barrel length is to measure from the closed bolt (or breech-face) to the furthermost end of the barrel or permanently attached muzzle device. Unless the ATF says otherwise, having the barrel permanently attached to the receiver doesn't change things based upon their procedure.
One could also argue that it does indeed fire only one round per pull of the trigger. Their defn doesn't specify pull/release, just pull. One pull, one round, could be ATF's basis that it's a rifle.
So. ATF has confirmed that no letter has been issued for this firearm according to recoil web ...
As a FFL and SOT holder, I would consider this an SBR unless I had documentation from the ATF otherwise. .....having the barrel permanently attached to the receiver doesn't change things based upon their procedure.
One could also argue that it does indeed fire only one round per pull of the trigger. Their defn doesn't specify pull/release, just pull. One pull, one round, could be ATF's basis that it's a rifle.
Rifle: “…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 an explosive to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger.” 18 USC 921(a)(7)
Yes it has. Binary triggers have been around since the 70s as has the release triggerHasn't release triggers been around in shotguns for a while?
As I think I noted above, recoil saodnthise sources confirmed no letter.
However, when you ask three ATF employees a question you will get 4 different and contradictory answers.
I cannot imagine Franklin making this announcement without a letter in hand
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