by Title_II » 30 Apr 2016, 6:37 am
There are about two guns banned here in The Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. They were not banned on purpose, it was an accident. At some point we passed a law mirroring federal law saying NFA firearms (short barrel shotguns/rifles/machineguns/poison gas weapons) were illegal unless federally registered under the NFA, in which case they would be legal. They provided a definition that included barrel and overall length dimensions. They missed two things. One, black powder "sawed off shotguns" are not considered firearms by the federal government and cannot be registered under the NFA. Two, there is a modern sawed off shotgun that is NOT a pistol but also not a shotgun because it started life without a stock, and therefore cannot be registered under the NFA, but fails to meet the dimensions in state law.
Of course, to clarify, regular firearms do not require any licenses and do not have any registration (same as most states). Like pistols, rifles, shotguns, .50s, semis, whatever you got, doesn't matter.