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Originally posted by Dostoevsky
I'm pretty sure that any gun firing a caliber larger than .50" in diameter is actually considered a cannon legally and that would automatically make it a class 3 weapon in America. Can anyone confirm or deny this? I think that's why the .500 Smith and .50 BMG are the largest, most powerful respective handgun and rifle.
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No, that is not correct.
To the best of my knowledge, class 3 weapons deal with a) fully automatic weapons 2) Suppressed weapons and (I think) 3) short weapons like sawed off shotguns.
Caliber has nothing to do with it.
And cannons are not illegal to own (at I least I know for certain black powder ones are not). But where are you going to keep it? How much are the individual rounds? Will a manufacturer even
sell you the individual rounds? Where will you fire it? How will you get it there?
That's the reason people don't generally own cannons. (My civil war reenactment group had a hell of a time transporting their two cannons and they were relatively small.)