"Falco" pistol-gripped sXs shotgun?

[MatthewVanitas]

I ran across a few of these on GunBroker, and not finding much info on Google, can anyone enlighten me?


http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=105416106

It would seem that it would be quite doable to have an SOT cut the barrel length back, making it transferable on a $5 AOW NFA stamp, rather than a $200 SBS stamp.

Then again, it says 27 1/5" length, so being a .410 does it somehow have some kind of rifling making it legally a pistol? Or did someone measure wrong and it's a barely legal 28" .410 smoothbore shotgun with pistol grip?

It's kinda neat, but rather baffling me. I was initially just browsing gunbroker to see if there were any current-production .410 sXs shotguns that could conceivably be produced as lightly rifled shot-pistols, just for novelty's sake, and ran across these.

Anyone familiar with?

 

[TehK1w1]

No idea, but I'd be nervous walking around with it(or posting pictures) without either A) some kind of NFA stamp or B) A signed letter from BATFE saying it doesn't need one.

 

[Dave Markowitz]

A shotgun does not actually have to have a butt stock as long as the minimum barrel length is 18" and the minimum overall length is 26". So, it's perfectly legit that it's not an NFA weapon if it's as described.

 

[RyanM]

Yep, 26". Not 28". If it came from the manufacturer like that, it's fine as an AOW. You'd need to be able to prove it was manufactured with the pistol grip, though.