JustaShooter wrote:FWIW they were never Class 3. That is a Federal designation (technically, Class 3 is the type of license needed to sell them, firearms covered by that license are Title II weapons, or NFA firearms), they were never classified that way since they are over 26" long. However, Shockwaves and similar were classified as Dangerous Ordnance under Ohio law until HB228 and the HB86 fix were enacted. Now they are legal in Ohio, along with any other firearms over 26" that aren't regulated under the NFA.lar1 wrote:Thank you for the response. So shockwaves are not consider class 3 type weapons by definition of specific firearm?
IMHO they WERE considered Title II until somebody noticed that there was room in the regs for a 26" OAL firearm to have a shorter barrel than 18" and asked for and received an opinion from BATFE.
Prior to that they would stick a tape measure down the bore to the breech face and if it was sub 18" by their definition it was a SBS. They also could and did go after the sub 26" dimension, allegedly in the Randy Weaver case this is what they did, ask him to cut barrels to just over 18", then afterwards altered the guns to sub 26" length.
One case in Ohio (If I recall right) they went after a guy and they tried to measure the length of pull the wrong way.
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Can you imagine the civil liability fallout from a gun store that sold a Shockwave or other similar gun BEFORE they were legal in Ohio ??
Bill