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firearm - not firearm
Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 3:38 pm
by wheelgun1958
Yeah, we all know what is considered a firearm. However, I have been perusing 18 USC chapter 44 (aka GCA of 1968). Section 921(a)(3)(A) defines a firearm as "any weapon (including a starter gun) which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive;" We also know that smokeless powder is a propellant, not an explosive. Just thinking.
Re: firearm - not firearm
Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 4:28 pm
by TexDotCom
Excellent attention to detail.
Good luck using that as a technicality to call your wheelgun and/or semi-auto a non-firearm, though.
Re: firearm - not firearm
Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 8:56 pm
by jimlongley
AndyC wrote:Smokeless powders are classified as division 1.3 explosives
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True, they undergo deflagration ie. they burn (subsonic combustion) as opposed to detonation (supersonic combustion) - but they are still classified as explosives.
Unfortunately, that's a ploy that has been attempted before.