Originally Posted by
Oldtimr
The word shotgun has a meaning, the fact that ammo was made to allow a shotgun shoot single projectile ammo doesn't change that. However, a rifled barreld gun that is made to shoot cartridges with bullets instead of rifled slugs could very easily beconsidered a rifle, not a shotgun, even though it is designated by gauge instead of caliber.
This isn't the BATFE's first rodeo - rifled shotguns aren't anything new, so this isn't anything they haven't seen before, and nothing that they haven't ruled upon already - it's a shotgun, end of story. There are plenty of rifled shotguns that have been around LONG before Ed started working on these dinosaur guns, heck, there are even models that are built based on a RIFLE ACTION like the Savage 212 and 220 on the market - and the officially recognized ruling is that they are what they say they are - they're shotguns.
Originally Posted by
Oldtimr
Some states could well consider a 24 gauge gun a rifle if it has a rifled barrel when using a metalic or plastic casing and loaded with a bullet instead of a rifled slug which is the case here if I understood what I read. I have alreaded sent an e-mail to the PGC to see what their interpretation is on it for our state.
If your state's PGC has a different interpretation than to consider a shotgun chambered firearm as a shotgun, then they are diverging from federal law. So if I were a resident of such a foolish state, I'd happily write letters to the law enforcement division of the PGC explaining how their ruling is incorrect, and then I'd hunt with a rifled shotgun, hoping that they tried to take it from me... Pretty hard to win an argument with the BATFE...