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Cap n ball · July 3, 2002, 12:57 PM

I think it's legality might depend upon if it was manufactured that way rather than converted. H&R 'Handy guns' and Ithaca 'Burglar guns' were manufactured as pistol griped side by side shotguns with 10" barrels and the earlier ones used a black powder shotgun shell but they are still illegal. I have a smoothbore flintlock pistol that is approximately 20 gauge and can shoot it as a shotgun if I load it that way with identical effects of a 'Burglar gun'. I don't know why you couldn't have a similar caplock smoothbore pistol that would practically be the same thing. .58 cal is about right for such a piece. One in each hand would be a spectacular and most unwelcome vision to an intruder.

July 3, 2002, 12:57 PM	#7
Cap n ball Senior Member Join Date: October 17, 2000 Posts: 247	I think it's legality might depend upon if it was manufactured that way rather than converted. H&R 'Handy guns' and Ithaca 'Burglar guns' were manufactured as pistol griped side by side shotguns with 10" barrels and the earlier ones used a black powder shotgun shell but they are still illegal. I have a smoothbore flintlock pistol that is approximately 20 gauge and can shoot it as a shotgun if I load it that way with identical effects of a 'Burglar gun'. I don't know why you couldn't have a similar caplock smoothbore pistol that would practically be the same thing. .58 cal is about right for such a piece. One in each hand would be a spectacular and most unwelcome vision to an intruder.