Posted on 07/21/2004 10:33:12 AM PDT by neverdem
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OK, guys. Should I get an Uzi or an AK-47?
NEWS FLASH:
Based on the now standard Washington Post definition assault weapons are now WMDs. Therefore I anxiously await a new tally of the hundreds of thousands of WMDs that the coalition forces have found. (All those caches of AK's now qualify)
You'll just have to do without the banned BS stuff like a bayonet lug, folding stock, etc.
Well first let's get serious. An AK-47 is capable of fully automatic fire and was not "banned by the AWB legislation." What was banned from importation and manufacture were MAK's and semi-automatic rifles that fired on a closed bolt that physically "looked" like an AK-47. A true AK-47 has been and will continue to be (after the AWB sunsets) a class 3 firearm, which may or may not be allowed to be owned (depending upon state laws) and local & state background checks and payment of a federal class 3 transfer tax.
A similar statement can be made about the Uzi.
Having said that, if I were going to take advantage of the AWB sunsetting, I would purchase a .308 AR-10 clone, a FAL clone, or mabye some other larger caliber "evil looking" semi-automatic rifle. If I wanted to go "cheap" then it would be an MAK or AK-47 semi-auto-clone.
What are the pros & cons of AK vs Uzi?
Thanks
Well, who wants a crummy old AK if the repeal of this law is gonna make rocket-propelled grenades and stinger missiles legal?
That is, unless that sort of red herring argument is as silly as Diane Feinswine's claim (about semi-automatics) that "one pull on the trigger could wipe out everybody in this room (the Senate)".
Note; I do own a 9mm "Assault Rifle" but I still want an AK or SKS when funds become available.
The proliferation of citizens with CCW permits is lowering the violent crime rate, and the Dems need some federal gun control law that is contemporaneous with the drop so they can credit their idiotic laws. If the rate continues to go down (as it will) with expiration of the AWB, the Dems will have another deluge of pertinent facts they'll have to keep ignoring/distorting.
What's the difference? They're both the same to me. They're "military style" weapons, therefore, the pros and cons of either is negligible because they all they do is "spray bullets as fast as you can pull the trigger and therefore they should be outlawed...(at least, that's what my publik skool taught me)</ sarcasm>
I guess the new type of wating period they want for guns is one in which you have to wait 5 seconds after you pull the trigger for the slug to travel out of the barrel...
Only if she were wearing one of those jihadist suits, the ones comprised of web gear festooned with explosives surrounded with nails, glass, concrete bits and such, wired to a trigger, which she could then pull.
The att general of CA (van de camp) made the same statement in 1989 in the CA assembly chamber. We sent him a letter detailing the number of magazines, and bullets, and the respective weight, to kill 600 people (his purported death toll due to the cyclic rate of fire of the weapon he was brandishing)
Seriously, the .308 FAL's, & AR-10's are interesting things to consider if the prices drop enough. If the prices don't drop significantly, than a MAK or AK-semi-auto clone is the way to go.
That dolt could tell the difference between the two weapons.
Furthermore, I'd like to see the look on her face if her husband wielded a baseball bat aimed at her ugly mouth. Then she'd ban baseball as an assault weapons sport. These assbreaths don't know the difference between a bullet and a cartridge, casing, powder, primer, JHP, FMJ. They never heard of Remington, Speer, Hornady, Ten-X, Winchester; Colt, Ruger, Sig, Glock, Walther, S&W, Marlin, Stoeger, Uberti, Berretta, FN, Browning, Daly, Scott, Parker, Henry, Savage, Navy Arms...
Finally, she ought to go to Isreal and propose an "assault weapons ban."
/rant (now I feel better).
If you have to ask, then you probably shouldn't be in the market to buy either one.
Yup. She invented the AR-15 and sold the production rights to Colt... dontcha know. As a child, she worked for John M. Browning in Morgan, Utah.
I'm still looking for a pre-ban Mini 14.
Uh, the ban didn't affect the Mini 14, just the capacity of the new magazines sold with it. 20 & 30 round after market magazines are fairly readily available.
Good article overall, but the editorial team is delusional if they believe the gun banners will be happy to stop banning guns if the “assault weapons” ban is renewed.
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