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Rifle definition from the same publication.That is what confuses me. Normally a firearm with a shoulder stock and a rifled barrel is a rifle. I am not sure how a rifled barrel shotgun escapes the rifle classification?
Edit it appears the feds definition of shotgun includes the type of ammunition it uses.
2.1.1 Shotgun A shotgun is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder and designed to use the
energy of the explosive in a fixed shotgun shell to fire through a smooth bore either a number of
projectiles or a single projectile for each pull of the trigger
2.1.3 Rifle. A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder and designed to use the energy of
an explosive in a fixed cartridge to fire only a single projectile through a rifled barrel for each single pull
of the trigger.
What is the definition of a fixed cartridge, could a brass hull be considered a fixed cartridge and could a slug be considered a single projectile? What is the difference between a brass hull and a typical straight walled brass case?