C&R · IIIA · 028

A.J. Peavey knife gun

Section IIIA: removed from the NFA, classed as an antique (outside the GCA)

Official wording

ATF P 5300.11 · APRIL 2025 EDITION · SECTION IIIA · VERBATIM · PDF P. 80 ↗

Peavey, A.J., Knife Gun, cal. .22 short rimfire.

Official wording

ATF P 5300.11, April 2025 edition · Section IIIA · PDF p. 80 ↗ · ATF original ↗

Entries

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Verbatim check

Checked against the PDF text before every release

Editorial facts

Confidence: Medium · Last revised 18 October 2026 (Evidence pass) · How we rate confidence

References

1. web.archive.org ↗, years (estimate: partly supports it): hammer marked "A.J. PEAVY/ PAT. SEP.5.65 & MAR.27.66"; another RIA lot (Wayback) says "Developed in the 1860s"; the 1898 end is the Section the Section IIIA date limit (1898)
2. web.archive.org ↗, maker: Rock Island Auction lot (Wayback copy): marked "A.J. PEAVY"; "Andrew Peavy of South Monthville, Maine", better known for the logging peavey
3. web.archive.org ↗, type: Rock Island Auction lot (Wayback copy): "the Peavey Knife Pistol is a multi purpose knife, pistol and alarm gun" with a folding knife blade: type Other (knife pistol)
4. web.archive.org ↗, country: Rock Island Auction lot (Wayback copy): "Very Scarce Post-Civil War Era American Peavey Pocket Knife Pistol"

Fact tags

ATF the ATF wording states it.
REF ¹ an outside reference supports it; the number points to the list of references.
ESTIMATE an approximate or indirect reading, for example the production range of the base model.
NO CITATION we haven’t attached a reference for this fact; it’s our editorial reading, not ATF’s.

Source checked

20 October 2026: ATF’s page still lists the April 2025 edition

Corrections

1 change · see below

18 October 2026Evidence passEditorial confidence: Low → Medium. Re-rated after supporting references were added or re-checked.

Image: U.S. Patent 49,784, “Improvement in combined pocket-knife and pistol, sheet 1” by A. J. Peavey, Public domain (US patent). Retrieved October 2026.