Gun Question - Age Requirements

[woopazz403]

Got another one for yall. A carbine that shoots pistol ammo is considered a rifle or pistol? Age required to buy from a dealer? Thanks

 

[BRBrett]

I think 18 for long guns and 21 for pistols. Not sure though I'm sure someone will come in here to clarify.

 

[sandman7925]

It would be considered a rifle. A carbine is i rifle with a shorter barrel, 18" I think. I have a Marlin 44mag. It is a rifle. And I am pretty sure a carbine is still considered a rifle, just a rifle with a shorter barrel.

 

[JadeRaven]

The ammo it shoots does not make it a pistol or rifle.

A Sig Mosquito or Walther P22 that shoots .22LR "long rifle" is still a pistol. A tommy gun that shoots .45 ACP is a rifle.

It's all about barrel length, overall length, designed to be used with one or two hands, etc.

 

[SpeedRacer]

Caliber doesn't matter. A handgun is a handgun and a rifle is a rifle.

 

[James Cannon]

If you thought that was a hum-dinger, what do you think of those pistols that shoot 5.56 ammo? :O :O :O



Yea, what others said. Ammo is not the considering. What makes a pistol is the typically one-handed design and lack of butt stock, a rifled barrel, and physical characteristics like that. A rifle is a rifle because it's got a rifled barrel, a shoulder stock that makes it readily shoulderable, an overall length and a barrel over a certain length, and that sort of thing.

 

[Mac204]

Yea, what others said. Ammo is not the considering. What makes a pistol is the typically one-handed design and lack of butt stock, a rifled barrel, and physical characteristics like that. A rifle is a rifle because it's got a rifled barrel, a shoulder stock that makes it readily shoulderable, an overall length and a barrel over a certain length, and that sort of thing.

Pistols have rifled barrels......

 

[mb504]

The interesting part would be buying a carbine in a pistol caliber, then not being able to buy ammo for it at a lot of places.

 

[James Cannon]

Pistols have rifled barrels......

I think you misread my post.

 

[Hitman]

What makes a pistol is the typically one-handed design and lack of butt stock, a rifled barrel, and physical characteristics like that. A rifle is a rifle because it's got a rifled barrel, .

Pistols have rifled barrels......

I think you misread my post.

That's pretty much how I read it too.

 

[James Cannon]

Oh well.

Not what I meant. I'll go back to picking up those grammar books so I can learn to write a proper comma delineated list.

Intended:
Pistol is a pistol because it has a:
1) lack of shoulder stock
2) rifled barrel
..etc

What you apparently read:
Pistol is a pistol because it has a lack of:
1) shoulder stock
2) rifled barrel

I'll be clearer next time.

Sieg Heil, Herr Grammarian!

 

[bs875]

You listed "rifled barrel" for both, which is true. However when you are trying to point out what makes one different than the other it's confusing. Starting your pistol list with "lack of" is what threw off Mac204 I think.

But back to the OP, what Speedracer said. Caliber of the round is not the determining factor for a pistol/rifle.

 

[Gus McCrae]

Oh well.

Not what I meant. I'll go back to picking up those grammar books so I can learn to write a proper comma delineated list.

Intended:
Pistol is a pistol because it has a:
1) lack of shoulder stock
2) rifled barrel
..etc

What you apparently read:
Pistol is a pistol because it has a lack of:
1) shoulder stock
2) rifled barrel

I'll be clearer next time.

Sieg Heil, Herr Grammarian!

It matters when communicating.

 

[oleheat]

My pistols have this swirly-looking groove thingamajig inside the barrel....

 

[James Cannon]

My pistols have this swirly-looking groove thingamajig inside the barrel....

You musta bought the psychodelic edition. Mine are straight, smooth, and pristine!

Damn hippy guns!

 

[oleheat]

You musta bought the psychodelic edition. Mine are straight, smooth, and pristine!

Damn hippy guns!

Looked down my Glock 21 barrel while cleaning it (DIASSEMBLED OF COURSE) the other day and moved one end of the barrel in a circle. Blacked out for four hours.

 

[Tim67]

Got another one for yall. A carbine that shoots pistol ammo is considered a rifle or pistol? Age required to buy from a dealer? Thanks

It's a rifle. The difference between a rifle and a pistol is the presence of a shoulder stock, not the cartridge it fires. Don't know how it is now, but there was a time not so long ago that a dealer could sell handgun ammo to an 18 year old if he reasonably believed that it would be used in a rifle.

 

[richiespng]

Whats really funny is that you can buy it because it's a rifle, but cant buy ammo for it because you have to be 21 to buy pistol ammo.

 

[Baldrik78]

Whats really funny is that you can buy it because it's a rifle, but cant buy ammo for it because you have to be 21 to buy pistol ammo.

But is it pistol ammo if it never goes into a pistol? At what point is the ammunition considered "pistol"?

Of course, you could just go to wal-mart, where the clerks always look at you with a bewildered stare and ask, "This be pistol burrets?" To which, you respond, "No."

 

[James Cannon]

I still get a laugh every time I have to get .22 long RIFLE ammo from the pistol area.

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