[GrandEagle]

we had intercepted 7500 AK47s
Interesting.....
IF JJ is telling the truth AND they were really AK-47's, then they would not be legal for importation and civilian sale with or without the so called "assault weapon" ban. Fully automatic firearms have been, and will continue to be, illegal. (Since - I thought it was - 1989, but I was corrected by a fellow freeper who says it was 1987).
We have allowed them to create a "boogie man" then falsely associate non associated firearms with their "boogie man".

If they were not really AK-47's (as I suspect), then the feared "AK 47's" were nothing more than "scary looking" normal, semi-automatic rifles.

[jdege]

Italian customs had siezed 7500 AK47s that were being shipped from Romania to the US - and were later released when it was shown that the transaction was perfectly legal.

The surplus weapons are recieved in a bonded warehouse, disassembled for parts, the receivers destroyed, and the parts shipped to a US factory to be mated up with US-manufactured semi-only receivers.

All perfectly legal.

The company that was doing so was even based in Vermont.

It's no surprise, of course, that Jesse Jackson would misunderstand the transaction, nor that he would try to use it for political gain.

But that he would be so confused as to believe that the siezure happened off the coast of Vermont...

[11Bush]

Fully automatic firearms have been, and will continue to be, illegal.

Not correct. Anyone can apply for, and after a real lengthly and comprehensive background check, be issured a Class 3 license from the BATF. It allows you to own full auto weapons. Each purchase/sale must be between Class 3 holders and involves a federal tax, last I heard the amount was $300 per transaction.

There was a time in this country when you could walk into the local hardware store and purchase a Thompson subgun or a silencer.

Of course the crime rate was so much higher then than it is currently. /sarcasm