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Always liked those and thought they are a great example of how silly the NFA is. A store I worked at had a couple they sent in to the ATF so they could decide if they were legit and exempt all while the owner sweated it out. 16" barrels wouldn't hardly exist without the NFA.
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Always liked those and thought they are a great example of how silly the NFA is. A store I worked at had a couple they sent in to the ATF so they could decide if they were legit and exempt all while the owner sweated it out. 16" barrels wouldn't hardly exist without the NFA.
...and it used to be 18" for rifles too. Then the government surplused out a pile of M1 Carbines. They realized they couldn't call them all back. That 2" mattered so much to prevent crime that they just dropped the rifle length to 16" and called it a day.
I'm envious. Passed up on a 15" post-1898 Winchester Trapper some years ago with a verified history as a mine guard gun in AZ. I still regret that decision.
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Just bought a decently priced Rossi 92 .357 SS with the laminate wood furniture. It's a 20" model. (Not sure if the SS laminate ones are even made as 16" models..) Not sure if I'm going to keep it 20", do 18" or 16", or even knock it down to 12.5".