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Posted: 9/25/2004 5:08:40 AM EDT
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The place where all (all I have ever seen) pistol grips or the thumbhole portion mounts is thru the place where the Saiga has moved the trigger. Trigger was moved back to be reached with the sporter stock, and now occupies the grip hole.
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Posted: 9/25/2004 8:08:05 AM EDT
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Would adding a thumbhole on the default firearm AND converting to hicaps violate import laws? Anyone have info on that?
The thing with the moving the pistol grip, besides making the firearm 100% compatible with AK furniture/look, is it lets you install US made parts and beat the 10-or-less game so that the rifle is legal for a host of mods. |
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Posted: 9/25/2004 10:03:19 PM EDT
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The study that this ruling was based on
www.atf.gov/firearms/assault/treasrelease.htm concluded that a thumbhole stock is the same as a pistol grip and a imported semi auto rifle with one would not meet the "sporting perposes" provision of the 1968 Gun Control Act. Only one model of imported semi auto rifle is exempt from it the Russian model VEPR rifle. |
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Posted: 9/25/2004 11:12:06 PM EDT
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Buy a semi-auto AK I was told to change the stock in this case is illegal, it is also illegal to modify it to accept high caps. Now that the aw ban is gone at least till the next majority Democrat Congress and Senate(GO VOTE). I think you will see these rifles drop off in availability as they are now allowed to redistribute the rifles people really want without stupidass restrictions. Unless of course these $200 lo-cap plinkers are selling better than I thougt?
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Posted: 9/25/2004 11:16:54 PM EDT
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Does that law apply anymore since the ban is dead "sporting purposes" I had never heard of it till now.
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Posted: 9/26/2004 8:00:45 PM EDT
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There were (yippie! WERE!) two laws regarding AKs.
1) the 1989 import and assembly ban 2) the 94 Krime ban. The 89 ban elliminated IMPORTED AKs in their original pistol grip form. If a rifle is imported that is a copy of a military gun and takes high cap mags I cannot have a pistol grip, flash hider, blah blah blah, see the tacked threads for more details. This opened up the debate on how many parts made it an "import", which was clarified to mean more than 10. An imported rifle that has enough parts replaced with US parts so that it only has 10 imported parts is now a US made rifle and does not fall under the 89 ban- so add all the kool features back on. The 94 ban limited the cool features to only ONE, which was usually the pistol grip (like the Romanian SARs), but now that it is gone YIPPIEEEEEEE add them all back on if you want BUT ONLY AFTER YOU GET THE IMPORTED PARTS COUNT DOWN TO 10 OR LESS! convert if you want or wait until someone else does it commercially |
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