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Originally Posted by daswig
blistex, technically not. That's not a shoulder-fired weapon, and all rifles must be made in a shoulder-firing configuration, per BATFE. Iff'n you want to get technical, a rifle is a shoulder fired firearm with a bore diameter of .50 or less that has a barrel length of at least 16 inches and an overall length of 28 inches (I think, but could be wrong, since OAL isn't something that's normally a problem unless you've got the barrel short enough for it to be NFA)
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So those Kentucky long rifles aren't really rifles then. ;-)
They must really be parrots or african swallows.
You have to be careful not to confuse caliber with barrel diameter. The 16-inch/50 caliber Mark 7's on US Navy battleships are commonly referred to as "rifles" in most documentation.