At what point does it stop being a handgun and turn into a rifle that's missing the stock?
That's actually quite a messed up theory there in the image... No silencer comes with a magnum, especially not on a long barrel.. For someone (artist) lacking the expertise in guns, why try to portray something so unrealistic that wouldn't work out one way or another?
That's actually quite a messed up theory there in the image... No silencer comes with a magnum, especially not on a long barrel.. For someone (artist) lacking the expertise in guns, why try to portray something so unrealistic that wouldn't work out one way or another?
I'm not a gun nut but it is possible to use suppressors on revolvers, just really difficult to actually suppress the noise.
xitel said:
At what point does it stop being a handgun and turn into a rifle that's missing the stock?
Quite late, but I'm guessing since carbine is just a "shortened rifle", and I've seen pistol bases converted to "Frankenstein carbines", it probably depends on barrel length and stock.
Silly non-Americans. Anything firing standard bullets that doesn't have a stock and has a barrel shorter than grandpapy's hunting rifle is a pistol. And if you use a brace that was developed to allow disabled people to shoot one-handed that just happens to look like a stock and a trigger that fires on the pull and release, it's still a semiautomatic pistol.
Silly non-Americans. Anything firing standard bullets that doesn't have a stock and has a barrel shorter than grandpapy's hunting rifle is a pistol. And if you use a brace that was developed to allow disabled people to shoot one-handed that just happens to look like a stock and a trigger that fires on the pull and release, it's still a semiautomatic pistol.
What about long barrels and stock attachments? Games like Metro and Tarkov allow "pistol carbine" modifications. The base itself is still a pistol but long barrels and stock allow the weapon to act like a mini rifle of sorts.
What about long barrels and stock attachments? Games like Metro and Tarkov allow "pistol carbine" modifications. The base itself is still a pistol but long barrels and stock allow the weapon to act like a mini rifle of sorts.
It ultimately just comes down to bulk. There is no global rule regarding what's what and the non-global rules are always a highly political affair, common sense need not apply.
Rule of thumb is that you can't "shoulder" a handgun. So while pistol carbines are technically still pistols, they are no longer handguns because they have stocks. Hence the name pistol-carbine, with pistol being the mechanism and carbine being the classification.
Now you can saw the stock off of an old hunting rifle and you'll "technically" have a long barreled handgun, whether you can call it a high caliber pistol or it being a sawn-off rifle depends on it's internal mechanics qualifying as those of a pistol.
Lawmakers love to fuck around with all these terms without knowing what they mean because they're the ones that "decide" what they mean. Basically, YMMV. A lot of modern gun culture relies heavily around squeezing your guns through legal loopholes which leads to such abominations like AR-pistols that try to bend the rules as far as possible without breaking them cuz they're illegal otherwise.
