That may be true regarding the specifications of steel. However, not all those specs are needed to accommodate a bullet launcher.
Yes, I recall that 70s argument and all the brouhaha.
The general public saw it as nonsense. Planes were being high-jacked at the time and they saw it as common sense.
They are applying the same common sense to the AK-47.
This is why I feel that the timing really sucks to sunset the ban now.
No, it is true. Not may be.
No offense intended, but do you know anything about guns or the 2nd amendment?
Funny then that even after all this time, there are no "undetecable" or all "plastic" guns on the market. The Glock, with a steel barrel and slide, was detecable on standard airport screening devices, of the era in question, let alone more modern and sensitive ones. You could even see the "plastic" parts quite well. It is also detectable by the magnetic detectors, both the kind you walk through and the wand type. Those will detect my smallest belt buckle and the metal eyelets in my shoes. Any firearm with a steel barrel is going to set those off, and there aren't any without a magnetically detectable barrel.