[joe fonebone]

just before the first assault weapon ban, I went out and bought an SKS, just because clintoon said I shouldn’t...my kids were young then, and asked me about the weapons ban ( they were learning about it in school ) i took my SKS, and showed it to them, and told them it was not an assault rifle, I then took the bayonet i bought for it, put it on the rifle, and told them that now it was an assault rifle....they laughed and took that info back to school..the idiot teachers stopped talking about it after that

[bruoz]

The term “assault weapon” was fabricated by Congress to define and ban the production of a class of semiautomatic firearms with a pistol grip and detachable magazine and/or a folding or collapsing stock, bayonet lug or a flash suppressor.

An “assault rifle” is a term used for military rifles that may or may not have the features listed above but also have a selective fire capability that would make them machine guns under federal law.

BTW, a unmodified SKS at the moment is neither.

[snowman1]

I did the same thing only I took the regulation stock off put on a folding one ripped the sling bayonet off and converted the regulation clip to a 30 round banana. Now its an assault weapon still single auto though. I use throw away chinese shells that I buy by the case. My grandaughter just loves to go to the range with me and fire it. Its no more an assault weapon than my 12 guage auto.