Originally Posted by Murby

A DNR officer approaches you in your deer hunting blind and says you're hunting with a rifle in a shotgun only area.. You say, "But sir, this is a remington 870 shotgun".. and he says "No, a shot gun fires a bunch of pellets.. not a bullet.. Rifles fire bullets.. shotguns fire groups of round balls.. Come with me cupcake! You're under arrest."

Now, how do you explain to a judge or a jury that your weapon, a Remington 870 slug gun, which has a rifled barrel and loaded with a slug that is propelled by a sequence of events where a firing pin ignites a primer in the center of the shell that then ignites the main propellent, is in fact a shotgun and not a rifle?

Sounds like a rifle to me...