Talk:Mare's Leg

JB custom

I bought a new made 44 mag. mares laig from Jb coustom guns its a great piece and shoots hard. i also have a hoster set with it also, this Gun is a great collection item.

I have used it for target practice and hunting as well. This gun made by JB Coustom is well worth its price. I recently bought all 96 episodes of th Wanted Dead Or Alive series and enjoy watching them so much.

There`s alot talked about on the net about the rifleman, etc but there are fans and collectors of the bounty hunter out here.

I wonder if anyone else has purchased one of the guns.

Thanks: Jack McCarroll

"Class II manufacturer's license"

"To create such a cut-down rifle, or cut any weapon originally built as a rifle to a barrel length less than 16 inches, is actually illegal without a Class-II manufacturer's permit. However, it is legal to make an exact copy from scratch as a “lever action pistol.""

This section of the article is incorrect. All that is required to own a rifle with a barrel below 16" is that you:

1. Submit a Form 4 (Application to Transfer and Register a Firearm)

2. Pay a $200 tax

3. Wait for approval (which is always granted if the applicant has no criminal record)

4. Engrave on the firearm's receiver your name and address

5. Cut the barrel or purchase the gun.

Source: http://www.atf.gov/firearms/nfa/nfa_handbook/chapter4.pdf

As the current source used is a blog and my source is the ATF, I think changing this section would be appropriate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.189.237.125 (talk) 01:10, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

distinction between "mare's leg" as federally regulated "short barrel rifle" and as a pistol.

In the United States, long guns have been subject to less restriction than concealable weapons, such as pistols. (A model Uniform Pistol Act was drafted in the early 1920s and various versions were adopted as state law by different states; see Sam B. Warner, "The Uniform Pistol Act", 29 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Northwestern) 529 (1938)) The federal 1934 National Firearms Act penalizes converting long guns to concealable form to evade concealed weapon laws by requiring federal registration and taxation of concealable weapons made from long guns. Concealable weapons made from rifles are barrel length under 16" or overall length under 26" (a legal "long gun" rifle must be at least 26" long and the barrel length must be at least 16").

A "mare's leg" made by a factory as a pistol and sold in compliance with federal and state pistol laws is just that: a pistol; in normal commerce it is sold under pistol regulations. A "mare's leg" made by a gunsmith or individual from a firearm orginally made and sold as a rifle is subject to the NFA rules on making and registering a federally regulated SBR Short Barrel Rifle, or concealable weapon made from a rifle. Naaman Brown (talk) 13:26, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Longer Stock

I think the stock on this is longer than the one pictured at the end of every episode of Wanted: Dead or Alive (I'm perhaps erroneously assuming that the drawing in the closing credits was accurate, which it probably wasn't, now that I think about it). Accubam (talk) 15:11, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

I believe that it's a photo, and not a drawing, of the original gun that appears in the closing credits, since the details are so complete, ie; the dovetail cutout halfway down the barrel. And since that image never changed that I can tell, this is what I propose; There were three models made, the 1st with the large D lever and an octagonal barrel as shown in the credits from the shows inception, and which I spotted in some of the early episodes, the 2nd with the large D lever and a round barrel. I did notice these first two changing from one scene to the next occasionally. And finally the 3rd, with the smaller lever and an octagonal barrel.

Reggie C. My own observations — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ron Geronimo (talk • contribs) 16:15, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

"Other appearances"

Not all shortened rifles are Mare's Legs and not all pop culture references are significant. The "Other appearances" section needs secondary sources to show that a) the weapons in question are Mare's Legs and b) are significant to the movies/shows/games. Rezin (talk) 19:20, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

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