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Posted: 7/17/2001 6:12:41 AM EDT
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If the rifle is a pre-89 import, you can do whatever you like to it - pistol grip, folding stock, bayonet, detachable mag, etc.
If the rifle is a post-89 import, then you may have to put a certain number of US parts in it to legally add "evil" features. If you legally configured the rifle with a detachable magazine and evil features (legally meaning it's either a pre-89 import, or it's a post-89 import with proper US parts count) before 9/13/94, then it qualifies as a grandfathered pre-ban assault weapon, and can have the detachable magazine and folding stock and bayo lug and all the other goodies, in addition to the detachable mag. Regardless, with the proper US parts content, it can have a folding stock and bayo lug and all that stuff as long as the magazine is not detachable, too. |
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Posted: 7/17/2001 6:28:03 PM EDT
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Something like 98% of SKSs now in the US were imported after the '89 Import Ban, (and if it was imported before that, you'd have to be able to prove it). That ban prohibits "military features" on an SKS, like pistol grips and folding stocks. Note that MAK-90's could have neither. It also bans bayonets, except that Russian and Romanian rifles are considered C&R, and so can keep their bayonets if left in otherwise stock condition (no detachable mags). Chinese SKSs imported after '89 cannot legally have bayonet lugs mounted (specifically confirmed by an Ed Owens letter), though at least half the one's I've seen for sale have them.
Basically, in AZ, you can add the detachable mag as long as you remove the bayonet. You can't legally install the folding/pistol-grip stock unless you can prove it's a pre-89 import. -Troy |
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Posted: 7/17/2001 8:18:18 PM EDT
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Someone told me today that I could put the folding stock on it legally as long as I leave the Fixed 10rd magazine. He said that the fixed magazine excludes it from the ban.
Also that I don't need to worry about "evil features" since it wouldn't have a detachable mag. Apparently If I have the detachable magazine, I can only have one evil feature, but with a fixed mag of 10 rounds or less I'm OK. Make any sense? |
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Posted: 7/17/2001 9:22:28 PM EDT
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That covers the 94 federal ban, treetop, but not the 1989 import ban restrictions.
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Posted: 7/17/2001 10:12:25 PM EDT
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woulndt adding a US made high cap mag and a us made folding stock count towards the parts limit since he had it in that config pre crime bill?
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Posted: 7/18/2001 12:27:26 PM EDT
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Circuits is exactly right. We're so used to dealing with ARs and other domestic rifles (including foreign designs with enough US-made parts to be considered domestic) that many of us forget that imported rifles must also comply with the 89 Import Ban. The Import Ban bans certain features outright, and the only way to get around them legally is to add enough US-made parts to the gun to make it "domestic" under the law. That's how all of the AKs, FALs, and HK91 parts guns can have pistol grips; they have enough US-made parts to be considered "domestic", and therefore exempt from the Import Ban.
I don't believe that there are enough US-made parts to make an SKS "domestic", though I admit I haven't researched that thoroughly. But if it could be done, I'm sure I would have heard about it by now. If it WAS somehow done, and the fixed 10-round mag was installed, then it could have all the other evil features. -Troy |
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Posted: 7/23/2001 7:24:37 PM EDT
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I keep checking back here hoping that someone will say it's OK and tell me why, but NOPE.[:(]
Even though the answers are not what I wanted to hear, thank you guys for keeping me out of trouble. I really wish there were a way to legally put the folder back on, does anyone have a link to the actual law saying NO so I can just forget about it? Thanks.[:)] |
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