Popular Standard Shotgun Could Be Banned Under Proposed Bill

This Colorado bill bans any magazine that can be converted to hold more than 8 shotgun shells. But the standard tube-fed shotgun can be easily modified with an extender to hold more than 8 shells.  Thus the standard pump shotgun would be illegal.

Not mentioned in the article… there are shotgun shells of shorter than standard length, such as the 1.5 inch long Aquila minishells. Where you might get 6 standard length shotgun shells in an unmodified tube magazine, you might get 12 of the minishells in the same tube. Thus a pump shotgun that was built to *not* be extendable may very well still be illegal under this bill.

Additionally: for virtually every pistol caliber, there is a “snake shot” load readily available. So where a fifteen-round pistol magazine might at first glance appear legal under this new law, the ability to load it with snake shot would mean it would be illegal.

Additionally: you can keep your pre-ban shotgun, so long as you maintain constant possession of it. This means that if it breaks, you cannot give it to a gunsmith to fix.

I am unwilling to assume that this sort of thing is due to the gun grabbers *not* having thought things through. It seems far more likely that this is what it is… a way to ban far, far more than they claim on the surface.