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What qualifies as a rifle?

Enginerrrd 7y ago
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.
Zak 7y ago
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/USCODE-2012-title18-partI-chap44-sec921.htm 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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dunmalg 7y ago
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.
geggam 7y ago
The terrible AR-15 is one example
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bifrost 7y ago
When its classified by the ATF as a rifle. I'm 1000% serious, their rules are byzantine (and stupid).
- ScottFree 7y ago
  Yup. This image should make it as clear as mud. https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0020/5370/1690/files/ar-pistol-v-short-barreled-rifle.jpg?8988855630892898934 https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0020/5370/1690/files/ar-pi...
  - bifrost 7y ago
    IMHO this one is better :) http://emptormaven.com/img/NFA_Pistol_AOW_SBR.jpg http://emptormaven.com/img/NFA_Pistol_AOW_SBR.jpg
    - ScottFree 7y ago
      Haha, that's pretty good!
  - bifrost 7y ago
    https://franklinarmory.com/title-1/ 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.

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.

Zak 7y ago

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/USCODE-2012-title18-partI-chap44-sec921.htm 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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dunmalg 7y ago

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.

geggam 7y ago

The terrible AR-15 is one example

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bifrost 7y ago

When its classified by the ATF as a rifle. I'm 1000% serious, their rules are byzantine (and stupid).

ScottFree 7y ago
Yup. This image should make it as clear as mud. https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0020/5370/1690/files/ar-pistol-v-short-barreled-rifle.jpg?8988855630892898934 https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0020/5370/1690/files/ar-pi...
- bifrost 7y ago
  IMHO this one is better :) http://emptormaven.com/img/NFA_Pistol_AOW_SBR.jpg http://emptormaven.com/img/NFA_Pistol_AOW_SBR.jpg
  - ScottFree 7y ago
    Haha, that's pretty good!
- bifrost 7y ago
  https://franklinarmory.com/title-1/ 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.