[quote author=Fenstermacher link=topic=175.msg1332#msg1332 date=1337200721]

I ain't no ex-purt on nuthin' 'cept what dinner tasted like, an' I keeps that ta myself... BUT, this appears to me to be a clear case of somebody utterly cornfuzed about what "less than" means.

Either that or he don't know a rifle from a shotgun.

Further affaint sayeth naught.

But, is maybe the issue that a pistol isn't a rifle?
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The ATF has recently (a few months or more past) ruled that an individual can convert pistols into rifles, and back again legally, as long as the firearm started as a pistol. That's a non-issue (unless they changed their minds about that too). The difference though, is that it'd require an act of congress to change the rifle/shotgun length requirements - to my knowledge this hasn't happened.