So store policy not law on the AR's?
ARs are definitely rifles, and are definitely 18+
So store policy not law on the AR's?
Store has the right to sell to whoever, and refuse service to whomever also.
Yet another example of the stupidity of having the NFA, regulating items such as these, and then having a pointless organization like the ATF to randomly decide what the flavor of the week is with the law and change it on a moments notice. Instead of over 22,000 ridiculously complicated laws, in regards to firearms, that no one can ever possibly remember all of them, there should be like 10.
(e) Any other weapon
The term “any other weapon” means any weapon or device capable of being concealed on the person from which a shot can be discharged through the energy of an explosive, a pistol or revolver having a barrel with a smooth bore designed or redesigned to fire a fixed shotgun shell, weapons with combination shotgun and rifle barrels 12 inches or more, less than 18 inches in length, from which only a single discharge can be made from either barrel without manual reloading, and shall include any such weapon which may be readily restored to fire. Such term shall not include a pistol or a revolver having a rifled bore, or rifled bores, or weapons designed, made, or intended to be fired from the shoulder and not capable of firing fixed ammunition.
I think this is the determination... that without a stock, the shotgun becomes a pistol with a smoothbore designed to fire shot. So it then defers to the AOW status since it lacks rifling, but because it has a barrel length of 18" it is deferred from the NFA process. It really doesn't fit into any category as defined, but is part pistol, part shotgun, and part AOW. With it being 21+ to own, I'd imagine it falls somewhere between the pistol and AOW.
It's definitely not a smoothbore handgun, as it's too long to be considered a handgun under Federal law.
What it is is a long gun. What it isn't is a shotgun per the definitions under Federal law. Those same laws say that you can transfer rifles and shotguns to people 18 years of age, but all else is 21 and over... including long guns.
It's also illegal for a dealer to transfer an AR receiver to someone under 21 for the same reason. It may be a long gun and be transferred as such, but it isn't a rifle till the stock is on it.
So, are you saying that if you bought a shotgun that just had the pistol grip (A lare pistol, i Guess) with no stock, and then added a stock to it, it would be illegal ?
Well that's dumb! Why do we have these stupid laws!!!