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Indiana bill will allow residents to own sawed-off shotguns

Published June 20, 2015

Indiana residents will soon be able to legally own manufactured sawed-off shotguns under a repeal of the state’s ban on their possession.

The change takes effect July 1 under a bill approved by state lawmakers earlier this year allowing the manufacture, selling or owning of shotguns with barrels 18 inches long or less.

Sen. Jim Tomes, R-Wadesville, said the change would bring state law into line with federal regulations allowing ownership of short-barreled shotguns by those who pass background checks for permits from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Federal law prohibits someone from altering a shotgun to have a barrel less than the minimum length, he said.

"You can saw off the barrel but you'll spend 10 years in a federal penitentiary doing that," Tomes told WRTV. "These guns are manufactured by licensed manufacturers and they're under heavy regulations."

One person was sentenced to prison for having a sawed-off shotgun during 2012 and 2013, according to Indiana’s nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency.

Tomes said short-barreled shotguns are expensive to buy and mainly owned by gun collectors.

Leaders of the Indiana Chapter for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America didn't oppose the sawed-off shotgun ban repeal during the legislative session, saying the group was more concerned about proposals for repealing the state laws for handgun licensing and allowing colleges to impose campus bans on firearms. Both of those bills failed to advance.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

 

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Federal law prohibits someone from altering a shotgun to have a barrel less than the minimum length, he said.

"You can saw off the barrel but you'll spend 10 years in a federal penitentiary doing that," Tomes told WRTV. "These guns are manufactured by licensed manufacturers and they're under heavy regulations."

As usual the people passing the laws don't even understand the laws they pass.

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Reading the story it says it's against federal law to make a sbs by cutting a barrel.  That's obviously bullshit.

 

The story also says the new Indiana law mirrors the federal law and we know that it's perfectly legal to make a sbs using a form 1.

 

So it seems the story is full of shit.  And I'm so surprised that the media AND politicians would be full of shit.

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SBRs have been legal here in Indiana for awhile. Now we're legalizing SBSs. They're also trying to get a quick online approval for suppressors, still pay for stamp, but no waiting. It sucks that the media doesn't know how to properly cover these things. They just like to use scary words. Still a great state for now

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