Raymond writes:
> The military in WWI used, and today still uses, short-barreled shotguns, 

  "trench brooms", etc.

> but they were not sawed-off.  

  I think that barrel length is the important metric, and that
"sawed-off" is a general term meaning the barrel was shortened after
manufacture.  Since the NFA of 1934, shotgun barrels have been
manufactured to conform to that requirement. Whether a hacksaw, lathe or
laser was used to shorten a barrel below the legal limit is irrelevant.

  The language used in Miller v US was "a barrel of less than eighteen
inches in length".

--henry schaffer
> ...
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