Short Barrel Shotguns

[Honey Badger]

Do you have to have the receiver engraved like you do with an SBR? Thanks in advance.

Mike

 

[Glocktogo]

You can do a SBS on a Form 1 or a Form 4. On a Form 1, it has to be engraved with the name it will be in the registry under/maker. On a Form 4, it must only be engraved with the name of the SOT/maker.

 

[Honey Badger]

Well I would be the maker even if I had it cut and threaded right? So either way I would have to have it engraved with my name? Is that right?

 

[CAR-AR-M16]

Well I would be the maker even if I had it cut and threaded right? So either way I would have to have it engraved with my name? Is that right?

If you file the Form 1, you are the maker and your info needs to be engraved.

 

[Honey Badger]

Can you cut it shorter than 16 inches and have a flasher hider perm attached to make it 16?

 

[CAR-AR-M16]

Can you cut it shorter than 16 inches and have a flasher hider perm attached to make it 16?

Yes, you can permanently attach a flash hider and it will count towards the length of the barrel, but the 16" minimum length is for rifles. Shotguns have an 18" minimum length.

 

[Honey Badger]

Okay. Thanks guys.

 

[Double Tap]

What are the ATF legal standards for the engraving? (Location on the reciver and what information?) Form 1

 

[CAR-AR-M16]

What are the ATF legal standards for the engraving? (Location on the reciver and what information?) Form 1

If you are making this on a Form 1, the pertinant info is highlighted below.

Title 27: Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

§ 479.102 How must firearms be identified?

(a) You, as a manufacturer, importer, or maker of a firearm, must legibly identify the firearm as follows:

(1) By engraving, casting, stamping (impressing), or otherwise conspicuously placing or causing to be engraved, cast, stamped (impressed) or placed on the frame or receiver thereof an individual serial number. The serial number must be placed in a manner not susceptible of being readily obliterated, altered, or removed, and must not duplicate any serial number placed by you on any other firearm. For firearms manufactured, imported, or made on and after January 30, 2002, the engraving, casting, or stamping (impressing) of the serial number must be to a minimum depth of .003 inch and in a print size no smaller than 1/16 inch; and

(2) By engraving, casting, stamping (impressing), or otherwise conspicuously placing or causing to be engraved, cast, stamped (impressed), or placed on the frame, receiver, or barrel thereof certain additional information. This information must be placed in a manner not susceptible of being readily obliterated, altered or removed. For firearms manufactured, imported, or made on and after January 30, 2002, the engraving, casting, or stamping (impressing) of this information must be to a minimum depth of .003 inch. The additional information includes:

(i) The model, if such designation has been made;

(ii) The caliber or gauge;

(iii) Your name (or recognized abbreviation) and also, when applicable, the name of the foreign manufacturer or maker;

(iv) In the case of a domestically made firearm, the city and State (or recognized abbreviation thereof) where you as the manufacturer maintain your place of business, or where you, as the maker, made the firearm; and

(v) In the case of an imported firearm, the name of the country in which it was manufactured and the city and State (or recognized abbreviation thereof) where you as the importer maintain your place of business. For additional requirements relating to imported firearms, see Customs regulations at 19 CFR part 134.

(b) The depth of all markings required by this section will be measured from the flat surface of the metal and not the peaks or ridges. The height of serial numbers required by paragraph (a)(1) of this section will be measured as the distance between the latitudinal ends of the character impression bottoms (bases).

(c) The Director may authorize other means of identification upon receipt of a letter application from you, submitted in duplicate, showing that such other identification is reasonable and will not hinder the effective administration of this part.

(d) In the case of a destructive device, the Director may authorize other means of identifying that weapon upon receipt of a letter application from you, submitted in duplicate, showing that engraving, casting, or stamping (impressing) such a weapon would be dangerous or impracticable.

(e) A firearm frame or receiver that is not a component part of a complete weapon at the time it is sold, shipped, or otherwise disposed of by you must be identified as required by this section.

(f)(1) Any part defined as a machine gun, muffler, or silencer for the purposes of this part that is not a component part of a complete firearm at the time it is sold, shipped, or otherwise disposed of by you must be identified as required by this section.

(2) The Director may authorize other means of identification of parts defined as machine guns other than frames or receivers and parts defined as mufflers or silencers upon receipt of a letter application from you, submitted in duplicate, showing that such other identification is reasonable and will not hinder the effective administration of this part.

 

[Double Tap]

Thank you!!