Shotgun definition

Shotgun means a weapon with one or more barrels, designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to use the energy of the explosive in a fixed shotgun shell to fire through a smooth bore either a number of ball shot or a single projectile for each single pull of the trigger.
Shotgun means a smooth-bore gun, excluding airguns;
Shotgun means a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of the explosive in a fixed shotgun shell to fire through a smooth bore either a number of ball shot or a single projectile for each pull of the trigger. The term includes any such weapon which may be readily restored to fire a fixed shotgun shell but does not include an antique firearm as defined in this section.

Examples of Shotgun in a sentence

  • He is a Shotgun Coach (L1) with Scholastic Clay Target Program, National Rifle Association, a member of the Amateur Trapshooting Association, a member of The United States Practical Shooting Association, a range officer at the Xxxxx Xxx and Gun Club, and a member of the Cabinet Rifle and Pistol Association.


More Definitions of Shotgun

Shotgun means a weapon with one or more barrels, designed
Shotgun means a smoothbore barrelled firearm designed to shoot pellets. Rifled shotgun barrels of at least 18” in length are considered to be shotguns for the purpose of hunting deer or bear if they fire a single projectile and are of the following gauges: 10, 12, 16, 20, 28.
Shotgun means a firearm designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired with one hand below or behind and one hand in front of the breach, which uses the energy of the explosive in a fixed shotgun shell to fire through a smooth or a rifled bore either a number of ball shot or a single projectile for each single pull of the trigger.
Shotgun means a smooth bore firearm designed to fire cartridges
Shotgun means a smooth bore firearm designed to fire cartridges containing pellets or a single slug.
Shotgun means a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade,
Shotgun means a firearm designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to