so with this using a m4 ar with a 16in barrel for yotes would be illegal????
So I dont know but previously I thought they were varmint shoot on sight.
That's what I always thought but there is a season for them. So I dont know but previously I thought they were varmint shoot on sight.
Lets take a step back in history. For a period of a few years, people were making registered SBR's in pistol cartridges and deer hunting with them. This was because an SBR was designated as a handgun per IC and DNR did not vary from that. However, when it was discovered that all you had to do was pay $200 and register a firearm as an SBR to be able to hunt with a 15.75" barrel length .270, .308 etc, the DNR decided to act to stop it.
Thus the above DNR "rule" that a handgun does not qualify as a handgun if it is intended to be fired from the shoulder or it is a rifle that has a barrel less than 18".
These restrictions only apply to hunting deer as far as I know. Coyote hunting is still open to any equipment (except suppressors).