It's a strange, strange tangled up mess that has evolved (devolved ?) over the years in California. This seems to be the current legal situation.
The design that I was working on would be illegal if it contained a .410 shotgun shell like this:
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But everything is fine if it contains a .45 Long Colt shot shell, something like this (except larger):
Even if fired from the Speed Six (shown in one of the above photos, along with some of the legal shot shells) with a 2-3/4 inch barrel, all is well in California. Quoting, yet again, my esteemed law expert, Tony Soprano: "Whaddayagonnado ?"
If one is a handloader, like me, it's probably easy enough to load a .45 Long Colt to better than .410 performance, except for the amount of shot. That's all moot anyway; the purpose of the tin can gun was not to run straight "25's" at the skeet range
The design that I was working on would be illegal if it contained a .410 shotgun shell like this:
410.jpg (Size: 5.47 KB / Downloads: 152)
But everything is fine if it contains a .45 Long Colt shot shell, something like this (except larger):
Even if fired from the Speed Six (shown in one of the above photos, along with some of the legal shot shells) with a 2-3/4 inch barrel, all is well in California. Quoting, yet again, my esteemed law expert, Tony Soprano: "Whaddayagonnado ?"
If one is a handloader, like me, it's probably easy enough to load a .45 Long Colt to better than .410 performance, except for the amount of shot. That's all moot anyway; the purpose of the tin can gun was not to run straight "25's" at the skeet range