Baked on Grease
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It is a Class III gun.
"A machine gun is any gun that can fire more than one shot with a single pull of the trigger,...."
http://www.titleii.com/bardwell/nfa_faqhtml.html#What_Is_An_NFA_Weapon
IMO - both barrels could be bolt action and it would still be Class III.
I remember someone here linked a letter from the ATF about these double barrel guns. Their opinion was that is was NOT a class 3 item. The said something to the effect of: they 'understand that the definition to mean one cycle per trigger pull. So long as the trigger must be released and depressed a second time to initiate a second cycle it is still a semiautomatic weapon. You could fire a thousand barrels at once to expel a thousand rounds at a time so long as the trigger only initiates a single cycling of the action."
I am on a mobile and at work so my Google powers are limited. .. If it's not found by the time I get home I'll hunt for it then.
Also according to that definition a single 'shot' does not necessarily mean a single bullet but can easily be interpreted to mean a single cycling of the action as a shot. Otherwise a shotgun could be defined as a class 3 item since each pellet could be defined as a 'shot' if it is then interchangeable with 'bullet' in the law...
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