IC 35-47-1-11
"Shotgun"
Sec. 11. "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 single pull of the trigger.
As added by P.L.311-1983, SEC.32.
The red and blue text seem to be the deal breaker for me. But I have pointed this out before.
I hope you can get it to fly. Because I'll try it. I am not against the idea. Just don't like club fed.
"A weapon designed... to be fired from the shoulder AND designed... to use the energy of... a fixed shotgun shell..."
AND not OR.
This means there are TWO separate conditions that must BOTH be met for a firearm to fall under this definition. It is not either or. Therefore, a firearm that is not designed to be fired from the shoulder is not a shotgun, regardless of what type of ammunition it fires. PERIOD.
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