[holymoly]

The same type of gun commonly used by Iraqi security forces is legally being sold to civilians in Rock Hill.

Geez, the author couldn't even get beyond the first paragraph without spouting a bold-faced lie.

For those infamiliar with firearms, the AK-47s used by Iraqi security forces are true "assault rifles", i.e. they are selective-fire (capable of both semi-automatic and fully-automatic fire).

The AK-style rifles sold in the U.S. (e.g. WASR-10) are semi-automatic ONLY.

[Jonah Hex]

7.62x39 AKs aren't bad (I have a few -47 semi's), but I love my Polish 5.45x39 AKM-74 semi. (smile) She's a sweet shooter wih a very flat trajectory. Plus surplus 5.45x39 is selling cheaper than 7.62x39 these days...

[Gay State Conservative]

In Massachusetts you need a license to buy a spitball...let alone an AK.

[Ancesthntr]

Dresner said the AK-47 he sells is a semi-automatic rifle just like the ones used by Iraqi police allied with U.S. troops in the Middle East. It looks similar to the famed Russian AK-47, a fully automatic machine gun made popular during the Cold War. [Emphasis added].

Moron contradicts himself in the first sentence.

Moron needs to know that there's a world of difference between a semi- and a full-auto AK.

Like capabilities.

Like cost - a semi- can be acquired for as little as $300, but a legal full auto (of which there are vanishingly few in this country) costs over $20,000.

Like legality - just ask the BATFE if they're the same...go ahead, tell them that you bought a full auto AK-47 from some guy in a different state last week and want to know if its legal. Then hang up and call Dominos. Unlike most cases, the government WILL get there before Dominos delivers. In fact, Dominos' deliveryman will find that he's giving the pizza to a bunch of guys with guns and body armor who just killed your cat, bashed your pregnant wife in the belly, trashed your house and is dragging you (bloodied and unconscious) to the truck across the street.

There just a LITTLE difference between a semi-auto and a full-auto AK-47. MORON!

[nonsporting]

From 1994 to 2004, a federal ban on assault weapons, including AK-47s, limited the kinds of guns dealers could sell. Dresner said the AK-47 was still sold, but only with magazines that held three rounds or less. The ban expired in 2004 and the guns can now be purchased with up to 100 round drums, Dresner said.

1. The 1994 Crime Bill did not cover "AK-47s". It only covered SEMI-AUTOMATIC rifles which could accept magazines in excess of 10 rounds. NFA'34 regulates FULLY-AUTOMATIC weaons like the AK-47.
2. There was no prohibition against selling said SEMI-AUTOMATIC rifles with magazines containing more than three (3) rounds. My Hungarian FEG came with a five (5) round magazine. I purchased as many thirty (30) round magazines as I wanted.
3. 100 round drums were available for purchase, even though the population of such drums had been frozen due to the "AWB" prohibition from importation of magazines >10 rounds.
4. After the sunset of the "AWB" little changed except that the price of NORMAL capacity magazines was restored to unskewed market value and certain "cosmetic features", which did not alter the function of the weapon, were no longer disallowed. However, there were already so many chicom mags in country, I doubt the prices changed all that much, except for 100 round drums. And instead of a pressed and pin "compensator", you can now have a threaded "flash supressor" and a bayo lug!

We should insist on precision in language and not allow them to "gloss over" very important distinctions, which failure to follow will land the prospective gun-buyer in club Fed. If they don't understand the laws, then we should insist they be repealed. If what they really want is the banning of all weapons, let's have at it.

[ozzymandus]

I am constantly amazed at how stupid the reporters who write these gun control agitprop pieces are. Apparently the editors are equally stupid.

[Jack Hammer]

“The same type of gun commonly used by Iraqi security forces is legally being sold to civilians in Rock Hill.”

Pure, unadulterated bullsh*t, of course, but we’ve come to expect no less from MSM reports on the gun issue.

[Chewbacca]

I would rather purchase a PS-90.

[Travis McGee]

Oh brother, not this $#!+ again!

[KeyLargo]

I see that the NH RINOs have their undies in a knot. The comments posts to the article are good.

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