yup.
what was told to me, and just a week ago,
barrels to short to be legal.
under 16 for rifle, and under 18 for shotgun, can have a exention permentantly attached to the correct legal length, welded, and or hard solder.
they never did figure out of a rifle shotgun combo can be 16" like the book they sent me said, so ill be safe and make them 18 1/2 long.
however, and ecception.
if a shotgun was made, and sold by the manufacture as a AOW {any other weapon} and the serial is listed as such, AE military , police ect, it would always be a AOW weapon and need the tax tranfer as well, no matter what barrel it had attached. Remington, Winchester, and Mossberg all offer an AOW shotgun.
that doesnt make any since.
like the M1icon and M2 carbine ruling..makes no since at all,
if you change the 2 to a 1 and the serial number isnt in the group the ATF has listed as a M2, then its legal...
several M1 carbines were made sans the 1 or 2 and left blank, so they could be stamped 1 for semi or 2 for full auto.
a guy could in therory remove said 2, and stamp a 1 in its place and the rifle would be legal.
not that i would ever think of doing such a thing..
the additude of the law is once a machine gun always a machinegun..no matter what..
so now, i see they have semi auto Sten tubes available, i was wondering how they fall on this..
it just gets more confusing.