Savage 24 Question.

[Mot45acp]

If someone were to want to cut one of these down would it be one tax stamp or two? If one would it be a SBS or SBR?

I could see if you cut it between 16" and 18" it would be a SBS.

I started this as a hypothetical, but now am considering it. A .222 over a 20ga. 7"-9" barrel. It sure would make a handy lil boat gun for dispatching snakes or even gators (with all proper permits of course).

Any thoughts?

 

[Bubbles]

Ask these guys: http://www.atf.gov/firearms/technology/

 

[M-Cameron]

well im no expert, but im assuming that since its the receiver that becomes the SBR/SBS...that youd only need one form.....

so i would call savage and see if left the factory as a a shotgun that can also fire rifle rounds( then ide imagine youde need an SBS).....or if its a rifle that can fire shotgun rounds ( SBR)

again, i am no expert.

 

[PTK]

It would be an AOW if the barrels were 12" or over. This question is asked regularly. If the barrels are below 12", it would need to be registered as both SBR and SBS, being $400 total tax.

 

[Gord]

^ Ouch.

 

[PTK]

No kidding, it's why most manually reloaded title II combination guns are 12-14" barrel length instead of being shorter.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

The 12" or greater but less than 18" combo gun exemption as an AOW rather than SBS or SBR came from the late realisation by Congress that guns like the Marble Game Getter were not the preferred weapon of gangsters but had legitimate sporting interest. The NFA tax on them was reduced a few years after the 1934 NFA from $200 to $1 (later raised to $5). It was too late to save the makers of game getters, bicycle rifles and other short barrel sporting guns, they were taxed to death already. The makers of "trapper rifles" (Winchester and Marlin especially) survived the NFA by being far more diversified: short barrelled sporting guns were not their major product.

A M6 scout in the USAF air crew survival weapon configuration (14" .22 over .410) would be an AOW; they have been sold as such by qualified NFA manufacturers. I suspect though if an individual made a short (under 18" barrel) model 24 on a Form 1 it would fall under SBR or SBS restrictions. If you get a letter from ATF Firearms Technology Branch, hang on to the letter, for their rulings have not always been consistent.