Cane Guns. Would anyone be interested?

[DadSmith]

My buddy and I was looking around for a cane with a 410 ga, 223, 308, or pretty much any pistol cartridge. Could not find any modern built cane guns.

So we thought maybe start our own business and build them. Before doing so how many would be interested in something like this?

We both need canes now days might as well have another round available.

 

[jinks]

My buddy and I was looking around for a cane with a 410 ga, 223, 308, or pretty much any pistol cartridge. Could not find any modern built cane guns.

So we thought maybe start our own business and build them. Before doing so how many would be interested in something like this?

We both need canes now days might as well have another round available.

Cane guns are regulated as NFA "Any Other Weapons" and require a $5 tax stamp.

https://www.atf.gov/firearms/firear...irearms-national-firearms-act-definitions-any

 

[DadSmith]

Thanks for the heads up. So basically no one wants to wait 1-2 years to buy a cane gun. Regulations killing business opportunities. Will that's a no go then. Over turn that crap NFA maybe.

 

[T.Lex]

Hold up.

It seems like there's been some creative engineering going on lately - including "blade" style non-stocks on pistols - to get around the NFA and the BATFE kinda went along with it.

Quick review of the regs, and I think something with:
- barrel of > 12" and < 18" (?)
- rifled
- magazine fed (maybe only 3 or 4 rounds)

Might weave through the requirements.

Personally, that sounds like something pistol caliber, but maybe a slug would have value.

An attachment that locks to the receiver that isn't part of the barrel, but extended past it, made of material sturdy enough to be a cane... might work. Call it a shroud or something. Kinda like with the non-stock blades, it can be used to help someone walk, but is really just used to protect the barrel.... [wink] [nod]

I'm not endorsing this, but just as an intellectual exercise, it seems like something could be done.

(Oh, also just remembered the smooth-bore AR thing.)

 

[HoughMade]

Sounds like legal advice to me.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Sounds like legal advice to me.

Pro bono? (I've never been a big fan of U2 myself.)

 

[T.Lex]

Sounds like legal advice to me.

No, but I can send you an engagement letter if you want....

 

[HoughMade]

No, but I can send you an engagement letter if you want....

I'm sure I can't afford you.

 

[Floivanus]

My buddy and I was looking around for a cane with a 410 ga, 223, 308, or pretty much any pistol cartridge. Could not find any modern built cane guns.

So we thought maybe start our own business and build them. Before doing so how many would be interested in something like this?

We both need canes now days might as well have another round available.

Repeal of the NFA would be the greatest idea; and yes that, for me includes machineguns and the Hughes amendment.

ATF has a quite interesting AOW collection.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

No, but I can send you an engagement letter if you want....

Engagement letter? No candlelit dinner, getting down on one knee and gazing into his eyes while you ask "the question"? Man, you lawyers have no sense of romance.

 

[seldon14]

Cane guns are regulated as NFA "Any Other Weapons" and require a $5 tax stamp.

https://www.atf.gov/firearms/firear...irearms-national-firearms-act-definitions-any

Aows have a $200 manufacturing tax as well.

 

[CampingJosh]

No, but I can send you an engagement letter if you want....

I'm pretty sure he's already married.

 

[minuteman32]

Not for a manufacturer. Of course that license isn't exactly cheap, so that would effect the cost of the guns even more given that there wouldn't be a high demand for them.

 

[bobjones223]

Something about a cane gun scares me.

It may be my lack of knowledge on style and construction but walking around town and possibly getting a rock, dirt, or mud in the barrel as you are pushing it into the ground makes me uneasy.

Now if you could fold it in half exposing the barrel I would feel better but then you just put a forgrip on a pistol?