Posted on 03/04/2004 4:41:36 PM PST by Levy78
For those of you that are following the current action on the Assault Weapons Ban being positioned to sunset, I thought it would be interesting to analyze that fact that Bush imposed (May of 2003) a ban on all products from the Chinese manufacturer Norinco. As most gun collectors know, Norinco manufactures relatively high quality Ak-47 rifles that were once imported into the United States prior to the ban in 1994. (yes, Norinco did produce post ban rifles and they may have been imported after the ban was inacted). At any rate, it appears that even when the ban sunsets, new Norinco AK's will not be made available in the USA, at least until the ban on Norinco is expired. However, if Norinco has been/is supplying terrorists or enemies of the USA with weapons, then they should be banned and it's no sweat off of my back... Thoughts?
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/5/27/133053.shtml
YES! Along with some very expensive European hardware....like the $10 grand+ H&K PSG-1. Not exactly the weapon of choice for gangs in da hood. Pretty pricey even for a dedicated collector. BUT if you were worried that somebody might object to tyranny enough to pick one up, it'd be just a small but important Executive Order to sign. For those who have been properly and professionally trained in it's proper employment, this rifle is one hell of a long range precision instrument (properly scoped, of course)!!
A Hamas member who identifies himself as Raed Abdel-Hamid Mask is seen in this video frame grab taken from a videotape released by Hamas in the West Bank city of Hebron August 19, 2003, as he says he will carry out a suicide bombing to avenge Israel's killing of one of the group's members. The Islamic group Hamas said it was responsible for a suicide bombing aboard a Jerusalem bus that killed at least 20 people, an attack claimed earlier by another Palestinian militant group. Earlier on Tuesday, the Islamic Jihad group said in a statement to Lebanon's al-Manar television that it carried out the attack, which police said wounded more than 80 people. REUTERS/Reuters TV
That's a sort of an oxymoron there. Russians call the AK a "motor infantry rifle" and view it as a sort of a crowd-control device. I mean Russians make real rifles, but the AK isn't one of them. Max range with any possibility of hitting anything is probably about 120 yards.
Further, 'rifle' is a term that has to do with actual length, not accuracy.
"Rifle" refers to having a "rifled" barrel as opposed to a smooth bore as did muskets and as do shotguns. The term is generally used for long guns today because a certain period of time went by in the late eighteen hundreds during which long guns were invariably rifled while pistols generally weren't. Today of course virtually all barrels in both long guns and pistols are rifled to make bullets spin, so that the term is being misused.
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