As I understand it, if you conceal it it can legally be prosecuted as an unregistered short barreled shotgun. But it has to be intentionally concealed. I am not a judge or an attorney though, so my opinion is worth what you paid for it....
Magically become an AOW if concealed?
Is there a federal definition of the word concealed or concealable?
As I understand it, if you conceal it it can legally be prosecuted as an unregistered short barreled shotgun. But it has to be intentionally concealed. I am not a judge or an attorney though, so my opinion is worth what you paid for it....
ATF thinks so: ATF Determination letter from 2017Magically become an AOW if concealed?
Not in any ATF regulation. If not defined in regulation, then the common "dictionary" definition is used.Is there a federal definition of the word concealed or concealable?
No. It wouldn't meet the definition of a "Short Barrelled Shotgun" because it has no shoulder stock.As I understand it, if you conceal it it can legally be prosecuted as an unregistered short barreled shotgun.
Says who?But it has to be intentionally concealed. I am not a judge or an attorney though, so my opinion is worth what you paid for it....
The definition of "Any Other Weapon": § 479.11 Meaning of terms.That's kind of where my question comes from. I could see having it in a shoulder holster under a trench coat on your body = concealing it.
But is that the same as putting a blanket over it in a vehicle?
Is there some federal law on concealment?
So being covered by a blanket in the back seat isn't concealed on the person.Any other weapon.
Any weapon or device capable of being concealed on the person from which a shot can be discharged through the energy of an explosive, a pistol or revolver having a barrel with a smooth bore designed or redesigned to fire a fixed shotgun shell, weapons with combination shotgun and rifle barrels 12 inches or more, less than 18 inches in length, from which only a single discharge can be made from either barrel without manual reloading, and shall include any such weapon which may be readily restored to fire. Such term shall not include a pistol or a revolver having a rifled bore, or rifled bores, or weapons designed, made, or intended to be fired from the shoulder and not capable of firing fixed ammunition.
Man, I need to watch what I type... aow is what I meant.No. It wouldn't meet the definition of a "Short Barrelled Shotgun" because it has no shoulder stock.
It could meet the definition of an "Any Other Weapon" if concealed.
Says who?
Careful.........there is no such thing as "Other Weapon" either in Title I (non NFA firearms) or Title II (NFA firearms).I asked the attorney that put together my gun trust and his opinion was that concealed on the body would make the weapon, by default of definition, a concealable firearm, which an "other weapon" (not "aow") Is not.
So my opinion is derived from his unofficial but educated advice.