This must be they ad in "Shotgun News" they are referring to.
Hit and bumped.
Good article.
I have a North Korean AK-47 (my brother-in-law gave it to me to hold when he moved to Kalifornia). I asked my father-in-law if it could be converted to fully auto (for academic purposes, of course), and he said he knew how, but it was a somewhat involved process.
He understands wrong. While both are gas-operated, and both are chambered for the 7.62x39 cartridge, they are not the same rifle, or "versions" of the same rifle.
Virtually every Communist country has (at one time) manufactured SKS carbines, including China, Russia, Yugoslavia, etc., etc.
This is a great read.
I once got into an argument with a know-it-all hoplophobe at my brother's house who claimed that all you had to do to convert an AK rifle from semi to full-auto was file down "some part". I asked if he meant the sear. "I guess so."
I then proceeded to educate him that the only thing you would get with a filed-down sear on an AK was an inoperable weapon. That really ticked him off so he did the usual liberal thing and started ad hominem attacks on me, the NRA, the Republican Party, and every other group he did not agree with.
He really went bonkers when I pressed him about whether or not he had ever handled or discharged any type of firearm. Things were getting really interesting when my sister-in-law put a stop to our "discussion".
Don't you just love gun-haters? They are so easy to discredit.
Despite that, this is a good piece and it explains that the conversion isn't going to be done by a schoolkid with a nail file and a screwdriver.
Of course, gun control advocates ignore the fact that if you DO have access to a machine shop, producing full auto STEN guns from scratch wouldn't be all that difficult. Guns aren't exactly cutting edge technology, and its easier to produce a full auto STEN than almost any other type of gun.
I'll take an accurate rifle any day, but my point is that such clever and industrious criminals could simply start producing guns despite any ban, if they were so inclined.
I had never heard Blagojevich and Daley make the argument that it is easy to convert semis to full autos. At any rate is flat out illegal to own a full auto in Illinois.
Getting beyond the simple mechanics of creating a full auto weapon though, what is being overlooked is that they aren't really that effective unless you're talking about belt fed machineguns. Submachineguns or select fire assault rifles aren't significantly more deadly than their semi-auto siblings. It's all a myth perpetrated by Hollywood.
This must be they ad in "Shotgun News" they are referring to.
I chose the M&M Engineering booklet specific to the SKS, which I understand to be the Chinese version of the AK-47.
Uh no Mike, the SKS is not "the Chinese version of the AK-47". The only commonality is they're chambered in 7.62x39.
That being said I don't know where this argument of conversions is coming from?!? I've never heard it from Daley or ijit Blago. Their sole argument, if you can call it that, is that they consider NO distinctions between a legal semi auto rifle and a full auto "Assault Rifle" when making their case to ban so-called Assault Rifles.
That is whole problem. All the tripe they spew is as if a semi auto fired like a full auto ("spraying hundreds of bullets, blah, blah"), which we know is utter nonsense.
And their goal is to eventually ban ALL firearms - period. First will be the scary looking non "assault rifle", then cop killer bullets - which means any rifle over .22LR, then any semi-auto loading rifle, etc, etc, etc.
A real machine gun is one that has a continuous belt with hundreds of rounds before needing to refeed. They are better mounted on some sort of vehicle as it takes a two or three man crew to lug one and its ammunition around. The automatic rifle holds about 20 to 30 rounds and needs frequent changes. A marksman shooting selectively one round at a time at a crowd would kill more than wildly shooting off a clip.
Funny how Journalists know so little of guns, yet write so much about them, as they do about military and war...
Bingo
Of course, such a weapon would be extremely dangerous to everyone--including the shooter. For safe operation, locked-breach firearms need a mechanism to ensure that a round cannot be fired before be breech is locked. This is typically handled by disconnecting the trigger from the sear until the bolt carrier is fully forward. Disabling this mechanism may cause such a firearm to fire full auto, but only until it jams on an improperly-ejected or loaded cartridge, blows up from a ruptured casing, stops because the hammer either falls before it can fire a round or else snags on the bolt carrier, or has some other calamity.
For that matter, how does a "sporting" shotgun like the 870 (4+1 capacity) compare? How about with a still-legal 6+1 capacity?
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