What are the top 5 gun friendly states?

[Kennydale]

Proud to from Texas... would be nice if they passed open carry for handguns and lightened up on rifle carry.

 

[Warp]

Any source for that? Here are the ones I found indicating a ban:

http://www.guntrustlawyer.com/2009/03/indiana-in-what-nfa-firearms-c-1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Indiana
http://ingunowners.com/forums/carry-issues-self-defense/41868-indiana-ltch-sbs-laws.html

The last link included the laws IC 35-47-5-4.1 and IC 35-47-1-10. The definition clearly states nothing under 18" barrel length. 35-47-1-10 (2) may be what you are referring to as allowing under 26" oal. if not made from a shotgun. The IN residents at that site didn't give any indication that people were able to use that interpretation. At best this would still stop the usual sub 18" barrel SBS configuration.

The definition says nothing under an 18" barrel AND made from a shotgun.

Which is weird and confusing, but if a shotgun was originally manufactured in the SBS configuring would it be made from a shotgun (whether by alteration, modification, or otherwise)?

"Sawed-off shotgun"
Sec. 10. "Sawed-off shotgun" means:
(1) a shotgun having one (1) or more barrels less than eighteen (18) inches in length; and
(2) any weapon made from a shotgun (whether by alteration, modification, or otherwise) if the weapon as modified has an overall length of less than twenty-six (26) inches.

 

[ghitch75]

as long as it didn't start it's life as a shotgun is legal......only illegal if you chop shotgun that started life as such....