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You may craft / manufacture a firearm for your own use (as long as it is not fully automatic aka a Machinegun) and the ATF does not care. A registration number/serial number is only required if you transfer (sell) that weapon to someone else.

While it's true that an individual can make their own firearm legally, they cannot make one that doesn't comply with the NFA. Short barreled shotguns for instance. Rifles or pistols with a bore greater than 0.5" as well. It's not just automatics proscribed.

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You Need To Up Those Numbers!" 100 Calibre? "Those are Rookie Numbers Son!"

I think the antagonist is doing a nice round 100".

The OP stated 100" That's 2,540 mm. That's definitely a cannon.

The OP stated 100" That's 2,540 mm. That's definitely a cannon.

And it would be larger than any cannon ever built in the real world by a wide margin.

The largest cannon ever built was a 31 inch rail mounted gun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav

Yup, 100" bore diameter would definitely be the largest. Useless, but largest.

If you can supply it with enough ammunition it could possibly be useful as a fixed emplacement coastal defense gun.

However, these days missiles would serve that role better.

You could fire full size pickups through that barrel.

You would need sabots for that as anything that doesn't fit the barrel isn't going to get accelerated all that efficiently.

In fact, I would expect a pickup without a sabot to get vaporized without leaving the barrel.

The NFA has stood since the 30's.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/16-894

That's the most recent challenge. I don't see it being overturned anytime soon.

Just from my perspective, the NFA was the only 'common sense' gun law ever to be made. The average person doesn't know how to handle full autos. Short barreled shotguns are definitely not picky for where the shot goes down range, and nobody needs a grenade to defend themselves.

It does need some modification though. Silencers should have never been included in class III.

The NFA has stood since the 30's.

Irrelevant if he wants to do an alternate history where it gets overturned. He's writing a fictional story.

Just from my perspective, the NFA was the only 'common sense' gun law ever to be made. The average person doesn't know how to handle full autos. Short barreled shotguns are definitely not picky for where the shot goes down range, and nobody needs a grenade to defend themselves.

And this brings up a significant flaw in the NFA.

The definition of rifle and shotgun in the text of the act explicitly includes a shoulder stock.

This means a 12 gauge pistol originally manufactured without a shoulder stock and with a 6 inch barrel is not legally a short barrel shotgun and is completely legal.

Also it's legal to make and sell pistols chambered for rifle cartridges all the way up to .50 BMG. These are not legally short barreled rifles and are not subject to the minimum barrel length.

Thompson-Center Arms and Remington made some of the more famous single/bolt-action pistols. I recall shooting a TC .30-30 pistol one cold January day at age 14.

Thompson-Center Arms and Remington made some of the more famous single/bolt-action pistols. I recall shooting a TC .30-30 pistol one cold January day at age 14.

Someone did a single shot pistol in .50BMG (Browning Machine Gun). Personally, I wouldn't want to try firing it. I like my wrists too much. :)

Here's another wrist breaker, a 12 gauge double barrel pistol.

The so called assault weapons bans were bullshit from the start.

If I wack someone over the head with a toilet plunger, I just assaulted them. So does that mean all plungers with black colored rubber should be banned?

It was simply a means of dividing the voter base. Get the left riled up about banning guns and protecting abortion. Get the right riled up about banning abortion and protecting guns. No one notices the systematic destruction of the real economy over a 40 year period.

Phew, my toilet plunger has blue rubber :-)

If it has a high volume, it's still no good. High capacity plunger heads are on the block.

I seem to remember reading that the favorite weapon of the Spetsnaz is their shovel. I guess that makes it an "assault shovel."

I just assaulted them.

Hit them with pepper. That isn't a sault.

Miller was already dead in a ditch and his lawyer refused to go to DC, probably not wanting to join Miller. So of course there was no 'Judicial notice'. The case being decided instead of dropped as moot with Miller's death was very odd.

The 'common use' and 'especially dangerous' language in the Heller decision was intended to cut out full auto and destructive devices from 2nd amendment protection. Instead of protecting the common issued weapons of the milita, it is now interpreted as protecting the commonly owned private weapons for self defense and hunting. Thanks to the NFA & Hughes, full auto, SBR, SBS & grenade launchers are not common weapons.
With the semi-auto AR15 one of the most common class of longarm firearms in the country, its unlikely that SCOTUS will uphold a ban on them. On the flip side,judicial nullification of the Hughes Amendment is not going to happen.

Of course, since the Bruin decision, the NFA legislation fails the criteria for constitutionality under the rules spelled out by the Supreme Court. There are several groups getting ready to challenge the NFA in court.
A fun time for all.

You leave "caliber" and get into "inch" when you go to cannons.

The USS MISSOURI only has 18" guns, and they launch a shell that is equal to heaving a volkswagon bug at a target.

The Missouri has 16" guns. But due to another quirk when dealing with naval guns, those 16 inch guns fire 50 caliber rounds(decimal point to the right, not left). In their case, caliber becomes a function of the length of the gun's barrel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16-inch/50-caliber_Mark_7_gun

The 18 inch naval guns belonged to the IJN Yamato and Musashi.

The Missouri has 16" guns. But due to another quirk when dealing with naval guns, those 16 inch guns fire 50 caliber rounds(decimal point to the right, not left).

No, the 16 inch guns fire 16 inch rounds.

In their case, caliber becomes a function of the length of the gun's barrel.

The caliber of the gun is 16 inches. The barrel length of 50 caliber (really it ought to be plural 50 calibers, but that's not how the Navy does it) means that the barrel length is 50 times the caliber (bore diameter) of the gun.

So the caliber of the gun is 16" and the barrel length is 50*16" or 800"