Thread: Overall length Saga continues

Originally Posted by tanqueray

I’d never really thought about it, but what purpose do minimum length rules serve? If a license holder has a short or long rifle, he is still obliged to act within the law. If a criminal without an FAL has a short or long rifle, he is acting outside if the law. He can easily convert a long rifle into a short concealable rifle. If he is found with either he is stuffed.

Am I missing something?

I think it's more to provide a distinction between a rifle and a pistol. Otherwise you'd have people with cut down rifles which are totally not pistols but using them as such.

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