Shotgun or handgun?

[dansgotguns]

Is this a handgun or shotgun?

I'm being told it's a shotgun because it was manufactured as a shotgun. But with the ic the definition if a handgun is IC 35-47-1-6 "Handgun"Sec. 6. "Handgun" means any firearm:
(1) designed or adapted so as to be aimed and fired from one (1) hand, regardless of barrel length; or
(2) any firearm withA) a barrel less than sixteen (16) inches in length; or(B) an overall length of less than twenty-six (26) inches.
As added by P.L.311-1983, SEC.32.

I'm not so sure because: "designed or ADAPTED to be aimed or fired from the hand."

As well as the court ruling estep vs the state of Indiana.

Thoughts? I know a thread like this is around here somewhere but I haven't seen it for a few years.

 

[M67]

If the barrel length is indeed 18"+, and it left the factory with a buttstock (which I guarantee it did), it's still a shotgun.

Its just been nipped at both ends

 

[dansgotguns]

Right but what about the ic definition of handgun, and in estep vs the state they say regardless of barrel length

 

[M67]

Still has the forearm which could be seen as it is still intended to be fired using 2 hands, which would contradict section 1.

I'm no lawyer though. One reason I changed majors in college was business law. I'm just trying to mix gun reasoning and the law. Which.....seems to never to really make sense.

 

[dansgotguns]

OK so could be, meaning also could not be. Lol. So it's possible, this would be the type of thing that you'd have to be charged with and taken to court I guess?

 

[possum_128]

In Indiana if there is no butt stock, ie pistol grip, regardless of barrel length, then it is a hangun.

 

[Mgderf]

Looks to me like a one-way ticket to the gray-bar motel.

 

[possum_128]

Looks to me like a one-way ticket to the gray-bar motel.

Overall length has to be 26 inches and that looks shorter than that.