Can you saw off shotgun barrel

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Other than being alliteratively fun to say, what do they offer Joe or Jane Murderer? To shoot to the heart of this matter, we e-mailed with a gun expert who has spent a great deal of time researching, collecting, and competing with firearms. As a gun developer and builder who has one design being tested by a Special Operations unit that shall remain nameless, our source asked to remain anonymous because, you know, gun reasons. What is a sawed-off shotgun?

National Firearms Act of According the NFA 36, a shotgun must have a barrel length of a minimum of eighteen inches and an overall length of 27 inches, I believe.

How does one make one? Is it hard? Basically, one takes a hacksaw, sawzall, carbide chop saw, and cuts the barrel s to the desired length. If concealability is the goal, the butt stock can be cut to a crude pistol grip as well. Is it legal? They can be had legally, yes. First your state must allow them. Then the forms must be filled out in triplicate.

Fingerprints are taken, as well a photograph to go on file. The FBI takes about 90 days, give or take, to conduct a serious background check investigation. If anything comes up hinky: application denied. If you want to tighten your patterns, have the muzzle threaded for screw-in chokes, also available at Brownells. The world is your oyster when it comes to furniture options for your new scattergun, but I found only one manufacturer offering exactly what I needed. Choate Machine and Tool has been in this business for decades, and Fred Choate is one of the nicest guys in the gun world.

His stocks and accessories are well reasoned, nigh indestructible and made in Arkansas. Nowadays, the company makes stocks and accessories for a bewildering array of weapons. Its shotgun components in particular are top flight. I built one gauge Remington and another in Both guns were inexpensive pawnshop beaters until I stripped them down and refinished them using bake-on ceramic engine block paint.

Once properly cured, it lasts forever. I built up one of these guns more than two decades ago, and it still looks new despite some fairly hard use. However, these components could conceivably be cooked in a cheap box-store toaster oven. The 12 gauge got a simple pistol grip along with a pistol-grip forend.

The gauge wears an indestructible side-folding stock. The side folder comes with a minimalist forend that does not interfere with the stock when folded. Both rigs sport sling swivels on top and bottom. Here is where our project gets weird. Question my manhood if you must, but sewing is fun. I bought a spool of nylon webbing from Amazon and sew the stuff using standard needle and thread. The needle passes through painlessly, and whipping up my own carry gear is a great way to kill a lazy evening.

Walmart carries polymer sliders and buckles. Thread your webbing into each of the sling swivels on your Choate pistol grips. Burn the edges to keep them from fraying. Sew or thread plastic buckles where you want them so you can dismount the gun quickly. I found that a single loop suspended the guns muzzle down from my shoulder. A second loop configured across my back keeps the whole rig in place despite vigorous movement.

Customize the size to your frame and the whole shebang is genuinely comfortable. Once properly configured, both of these guns ride comfortably underneath the right armpit.

Swinging the guns into action is markedly faster than the same undertaking with a conventional sling. At 15 meters, birdshot will liberally pepper a standard silhouette. At the same range, I can keep slugs on target from the hip until I grow weary of doing it. The gauge version is just dreamy.