ATF Shotgun Study - Link Inside

[Prince Yamato]

I want to know how much this study cost in tax-payer dollars. It sounds like a wasteful intellectual exercise. Why didn't they just come out and post: "No more Norinco Trench Guns" on their webpage? That would have saved the (probably) million or so dollars they spent sitting around philosophizing about the sporting purpose of imported shotguns.

In all seriousness, can we dig up a cost report of this study?

 

[Black Butte]

The so-called "study" contains the quote:

"The working group agreed with the previous studies in that the activity known as 'plinking' is 'primarily a pastime' and could not be considered a recognized sport for the purposes of importation."

So now it seems that the liberal elements of the government are loathed to recognize plinking as a legitimate recreational activity. Wouldn't it be fun to give the anti-Second-Amendment crowd a taste of their own medicine by banning lattes and vegetarianism as unnecessary and therefore illegitimate indulgences.

 

[merlinfire]

"The working group agreed with the previous studies in that the activity known as 'plinking' is 'primarily a pastime' and could not be considered a recognized sport for the purposes of importation."

Baseball is our national pastime, an so I guess, not a sport.

 

[Geneseo1911]

Baseball is our national pastime, an so I guess, not a sport.

High capacity assault bats have been banned from importation for years. Only the players are imported.

 

[GigaBuist]

The 10lb weight limit is curious. I wonder how they arrived at that.

About the heaviest shotgun I've ever hefted was a BT-99. A single barrel dedicated trap gun in 12 gauge for those of you that don't frequent the shotgun section of the sports. Thing weighs a bit over 9lbs in some stock configurations.

I can't imagine it'd be hard to find a few, if not many, shotguns north of 10lbs that are obviously sport guns. I just can't seem to think of anything heavier than a BT-99.

 

[Zanad]

Quote:
Baseball is our national pastime, an so I guess, not a sport.

High capacity assault bats have been banned from importation for years. Only the players are imported.

what about short barreled bats?

 

[52grain]

I can't imagine it'd be hard to find a few, if not many, shotguns north of 10lbs that are obviously sport guns. I just can't seem to think of anything heavier than a BT-99.

What other high end trap guns can you think of? That would be where I would look. You wouldn't take something that heavy hunting. It's not at all uncommon for run of the mill modern 12 gauge over/unders (think something along the lines of a Citori Lightning) to weigh in between 8 and 8.5 lbs.

Some of the high end Beretta trap guns look very heavy but the weight is not listed on the website.

Krieghoff says that their K-80 trap guns weigh around 8.75 lbs.

 

[Tactikewl]

bahahahaha....... I expect lawyers and law makers to tear this apart. Just a fun factoid
"The largest commonly available gauge is 10 gauge (.0775 in. bore diameter)." From page one so far.. I am still reading... A bit off on their measurements