Steve: don't worry about it - I'll reconstruct it in this reply anyway: The law reads "detachable magazine and at most one of" in reference to the features. Detachable mag isn't a feature, it's the defining feature, for rifles. No detachable mag, and it cannot be an AW under the 94 ban no matter how many other features it has.
Originally Posted By MIKE 762X39:
So it should be OK then, right? By eliminating the horrible nasty evil pistol grip I should be able to install a horrible nasty evil flash hider. Unless the outside diameter of the Vortex is 22mm.....
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No, Mike - not that simple. The thumbhole stock still counts as a pistol grip for the 94 "AW" ban.
The SAR 2 is an imported rifle, too, so it has to comply with the 89 bush import ban as well as the 94 AW ban. Your imported rifle can't have a bayonet or flash hider ever, regardless of the number of features, because if someone had tried to import it that way, it wouldn't have been allowed in the country.
With a completely US made AK-74, you'd still have to remove the pistol grip to mount a flash hider, and it couldn't be a standard vortex, either, because it'd still be 22mm. Alternatively, you could make your magazine non-removable, and load up on all the features you want, except you can't do that with an imported rifle, either - just a domestic product.