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The guy said; "No, these are considered & sold as pistols."
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Any way you cut it, if the barrels were unrifled and under 18", they were NFA items. Calling them pistols changes nothing from a legal standpoint since smoothbore pistols are essentially either short-barreled shotguns or "any other weapons" from an NFA perspective and either would require an NFA tax stamp.
What I suspect is that they were legal because they had sufficiently long barrels (18" or longer)
AND were sufficiently long in terms of overall length (26" or longer).
Even with the gun exceeding all the critical dimensions, it can make for a surprisingly compact firearm.
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I know about the tax stamp thing, but am not sure that even if you pay it to the Feds you aren't running afoul of state law, if there be one.
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That's a good point. One must comply with both state and federal laws.