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bigcozy said:
Lots of guns not even made before 94 have hi caps you can get. Most come from Europe.
My interest is in the surplus rifles coming in from over seas, will these no longer have to have the "seven component" rule applied? A $300 FAL would be to my liking.
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Sans bolt guns or SKS's (and a few other off brands) there are no surplus rifles in the vien of FAL's or AK's coming in from overseas now, nor have there been for a long, long time.
The ATF has ruled "once a machinegun, always a machinegun", so "surplus AK's and FAL's" couldn't be reimported and configured as semi-auto.
Now, what you CAN do- due to what has to be the closest definition of "loophole" i've ever seen- is import the demilled parts kits (which contain the major "semi-auto" neutral components like barrels and stocks) and then by adding some US manufactured parts, make it into a functioning semi-auto rifle, so long as it isn't configured as an "assault weapon".
We must remember here- we are dealing with 2 bans.
The 1989 Import Ban, which would cover Semi-Auto FAL's and AK's made overseas, and the 1994 "assault weapons" ban which deals with domestic weapons configured in a specific way.
So, if the "assault weapons" ban sunsets, you can put a flash-hider and a telestock (or whatever evil feature you desire) on a semi-auto rifle as you wish, buy $19 full capacity Glock mags, and so on... But the "import" ban still dictates what guns can and can't be imported, and since many of the designs are to cost prohibitive to tool up and manufacture here from scratch in the USA, they won't ever be available again.
So, forget about that Sig 551 (Unless Sig makes one here??), but you can have a telestock on your AR again.
Sorry for getting so windy here....
Vilsk