The Morons in Hartford decided that the SAR1 was evil! So they banned it and prohibited the sale of the SAR1 effective May 2002. We had until Oct 1, 2003 to register our SAR1 otherwise we had to sell it out of state or perminately disable the gun. I walked into the Dept of Public Safety and registered mine on Sept 30, 03. Here's the rub the Ass Clowns banned the Ak type weapons in7.62x39 sooooo SAR2 and SAR3 are legal since they are not 7.62x39. The Federal AWB expiration is coming up on it's 1st anniversary in a few days and I haven't heard of Assault Weapons being sold on the streets in other states where the AWB expired like the gun grabbers had been saying before the AWB went away would happen. Maybe we can convince our legislature to ammend the ban, wishfull thinking on my part. I sure would like to own a Colt AR manufactured in my own state instead on a neutered match target. Living down South is looking better and better every day.