shotgun barrel length muzzle break count?

[rustymaggot]

hello. i have a mossberg 500 and i found a nifty looking piece for it. its a m16 looking muzzle break but is made for a mossberg 12 gauge. my question is this, does the muzzle break count tward the overall barrel length? i am in california if that info changes anything. thankyou.

rusty

 

[Preacherman]

If the muzzle brake is permanently attached (i.e. it can't be removed without some serious gunsmithing), it's usually considered part of the barrel length. If it can be unscrewed or otherwise easily removed, it's not. The usual standard is that it must be silver-soldered or welded on to the barrel.

 

[rustymaggot]

preacherman, thank you for the reply. somthing i forgot to ask before, where do you measure from? chamber or where the barrel exits the reciever?

 

[foghornl]

Method for determining barrel length:

Close action with empty chamber. Drop in a rod of sufficient length so that some of the rod extends past the muzzle, mark at muzzle, remove rod and measure. Must be a minimum of 18" for shotguns.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

barrel length

Permanent muzzle attachments count toward legal barrel
length (the rule appears, if it has to be sawn off to be
removed, it's part of the barrel).
- When some 17" barrel Winchester Model 12s were sold
at a prison surplus auction, ATF advised buyers to have
a cutts compensator or choke tube WELDED to take the
barrel length over 18".
- With CAR15 replicas, a permanently attached flash suppressor
counts as barrel length.
- John Bianchi had a Johnson LMG muzzle brake attached to
his M1 carbine barrel to make it California legal (I think it
was a local regulation).

 

[Buckles]

Mossberg Muzzle Break

Where does one go to purchase one for a Model 500?

Buckles