The AK-47 is a selective-fire capable rifle, and therefore classified as a machine gun. Recent laws make them very difficult to obtain.
How old are you? I don't know that I'd call the 1930s "recent". Even the 1986 ban on selling newly made machine guns to ordinary citizens isn't all that recent, even to a "fifty something" like me.
24 posted on 02/25/2005 8:43:43 PM PST by El Gato
(Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)