I have another one to ponder...MaduroBU wrote: I raise the questions as a thought experiment, and to demonstrate how the interpretation of even seemingly clear statutes can very rapidly become subjective and confusing.
I thought smokeless powder was a propellant not an explosive. Does this mean modern rifles do not fall under the "rifle" definition? Because they are not "rifles" does this mean barrel length doesn't matter?The ATF wrote:
A "rifle" is defined as "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 in a fixed metallic cartridge to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger" (18 U.S.C. 921(a)(7).
I know the answer to these but it makes you wonder...