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To: 2banana
This is actually the first crime in 10 years that could have been affected by the now expired "clinton assault weapons ban" - it banned some rifles if they did not remove the bayonet lug...

Nope, close but no cigar. They said it was a WW-II era rifle. Thus a Garand or possibly a Springfield, if a US weapon. All the likely foreign weapons, and the Springfield, are bolt actions. Even the Garand, which is a semi-auto, doesn't qualify because it doesn't have a removable magazine. The magazine it does have holds less than ten rounds as well.

39 posted on 12/20/2004 9:13:29 AM PST by El Gato (Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
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To: El Gato
Nope, close but no cigar. They said it was a WW-II era rifle. Thus a Garand or possibly a Springfield, if a US weapon. All the likely foreign weapons, and the Springfield, are bolt actions. Even the Garand, which is a semi-auto, doesn't qualify because it doesn't have a removable magazine. The magazine it does have holds less than ten rounds as well.

Hey! It could have been this WWII era rifle!

The Sturmgewehr 44:

And. yeah, I know, what would a kid be doing with a $20,000 historical rifle...

41 posted on 12/20/2004 9:53:30 AM PST by 2banana (They want to die for Islam and we want to kill them)
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To: El Gato

And it was manufactured pre-1994, therefore like every AR-15 manufactured before 1994, it can have a pistol grip, bayonet lug and detachable magazine and be perfectly legal. Unaffacted by the ban.


53 posted on 12/20/2004 11:52:16 AM PST by tbeatty (I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat salad.)
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