4-barrel .410 made from staple gun?

[PALADIN85020]

With a bit of home-style engineering, this enterprising fellow has converted a staple gun into a 4-barrel .410 shotgun, equipped it with open sights and a laser, and demonstrates that it really works just great.

What's next; federal paperwork required for staple guns???

John

Staple Gun Four Barreled .410 Handheld Shotgun

 

[deadin]

No problem with home making a firearm as long as he doesn't sell it.
However, those barrels better be 18" long or he has made a NFA firearm (smoothbore pistol). Even if he puts 18" barrels on it, it still needs to come up 27?" overall. (I don't think the Feds have much of a sense of humor on NFA items...)

I wonder if they will write him up as making 4 smooth bore pistols??

 

[L Pete]

^^^^^^^
Homemade Zip Gun

 

[GatorFarmer]

If a guy knew how to cut rifling, he could legally make one in .410/.45Colt.

I built myself a number of homemade shotguns, single shot, out of plumbing supplies. I did mine in 28 gauge and 12 gauge. I kept the nicest of my 12 gauges and broke the others up. My 12 gauge has a full and proper stock and a 28" bbl. It is a single shot slam fire much like Phillipine guerilla guns of WW2.

I had a pastic buttstock left over from a Saiga that I used, everything else came from Lowes.

Legally making a single shot .410/.45 is as simple as dropping a chamber adapter in a 26.5mm flare gun.

I have not made any staple gun based shotguns, but such are often seen in Central America.

 

[gregintenn]

No problem with home making a firearm as long as he doesn't sell it.

Would you care to quote that law? If it's legal to own, it should be legal to sell. Where you get into trouble is when you are considered to be "in the business" of producing or selling firearms without the proper FFL.

 

[Iggy]

Firing procedure is kind of ponderous. IWB would be a bitch.

Have to give him credit for his ingenuity.

 

[GatorFarmer]

Would you care to quote that law? If it's legal to own, it should be legal to sell. Where you get into trouble is when you are considered to be "in the business" of producing or selling firearms without the proper FFL.

If check with the ATF, you can legally make yourself any nonNFA firearm for your own personal use. https://www.atf.gov/firearms/faq/general.html#gca-manufacturing

NFA firearms require a tax stamp before you build it, anything else you can tinker away unless state law prohibits it.

Without rifling or a tax stamp, the four bbl .410 is an illegal AOW as a smooth bore shot pistol.

 

[Alpo]

If you make a gun for yourself, that's fine, but if you sell it I believe you have to pay that 11% Excise Tax.

No, I just looked, and I think you'd be okay on that.

TTB | FAET FAQs

>As of October 1, 2005, any pistol, revolver, or firearm that was manufactured, produced or imported by a person who manufactures, produces or imports less than an aggregate of 50 such articles during the calendar year is now exempt from the tax.<

 

[mc5aw]

A+ for MacGiver's ingenuity, but homemade firearms are a risk I choose not to take. Buy a Governor and call it a day.

 

[Malpasowildlifer]

pretty weird