is it legal to make a "howdah Pistol" from an antique breech loader?
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/firearm...itions-antique
the definition of antique guns:
26 U.S.C. § 5845(G)
For the purposes of the National Firearms Act, the term “Antique Firearms” means any firearm not intended or redesigned for using rim fire or conventional center fire ignition with fixed ammunition and manufactured in or before 1898 (including any matchlock, flintlock, percussion cap or similar type of ignition system or replica thereof, whether actually manufactured before or after the year 1898) and also any firearm using fixed ammunition manufactured in or before 1898, for which ammunition is no longer manufactured in the United States and is not readily available in the ordinary channels of commercial trade.
suppose you had a Werndl or Albini action and a smoothbore barrel for it. could you rebuild the barreled action into a howdah pistol?
suppose you had a smoothbored snider chambered for 577 snider?
buffalo arms offers it on an occasionally available specialty basis:
https://www.buffaloarms.com/577-snid...-amo577sniderb
577 has been produced by 10X:
https://www.ima-usa.com/products/sni...nt=26170451525
the action would be manufactured pre '98. could the occasional specialty production be construed as "no longer manufactured in the United States and is not readily available in the ordinary channels of commercial trade.?
for reference we have short barreled shotguns being made from pinfire euro shotguns which are exempted from SBS rules because of their antique status.
even so, suppose a custom cartridge is created for and chambered in said action which has never been commercially made? this surely mets the definition of manufactured before 1898 and ammo is not readily available. yes?
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