[El Gato]

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.

[Disambiguator]

I'm old enough so that the 80's still seem recent to me.

;^)