Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor

Re:Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor by dunmalg on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:34PM (#21276039)

Firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a rifled barrel minimum of 16" long, and an overall length minimum of 26".

Rifles are defined more by what they AREN'T than what they ARE. "Shoulderable", "rifled barrel", 16", and 26" are the points where the federal government classifies a firearm as something different, such as a shotgun or a handgun.

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Re:Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor by bifrost on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @06:09PM (#21276505)

When its classified by the ATF as a rifle.

I'm 1000% serious, their rules are byzantine (and stupid).

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Re:Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor by ScottFree on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @06:20PM (#21276609)

Yup. This image should make it as clear as mud.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0020/5370/1690/files/ar-pi...

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Re:Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor by bifrost on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @06:28PM (#21276694)

IMHO this one is better :)

http://emptormaven.com/img/NFA_Pistol_AOW_SBR.jpg

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Re:Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor by ScottFree on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @07:06PM (#21277024)

Haha, that's pretty good!

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Re:Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor by bifrost on Thursday October 17, 2019 @02:00AM (#21279317)

https://franklinarmory.com/title-1/

This is pretty good too. Its not a rifle, its not a pistol, its "Any Other Weapon" apparently.

This is literally how arbitrary our regulations are. Criminals don't care about regulations, its proven over and over.

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Re:Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor by Zak on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:31PM (#21276014)

The term “rifle” 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 an explosive to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2012-title18/html...

A rifled bore, for those not familiar with firearms is grooved to impart spin stabilization to the projectile. Pistols also have rifled bores, but are intended to be held in the hand when fired.

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Re:Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor by Enginerrrd on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:28PM (#21275980)

That's a surprisingly nuanced question actually. But most of the nuance comes from edge cases that aren't very common.

According to the ATF: >The term “Rifle” 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 metallic cartridge to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger.

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