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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I dunno, an arsehole with a knife is a big worry, but an arsehole with an AK47 is a fucking disaster waiting to happen.
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Yeah, our country is overrun with AK47s...
In the United States
Private ownership of fully-automatic AK-47 rifles is tightly regulated by the
National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934. The
Gun Control Act of 1968 ceased importing of foreign-manufactured fully-automatic firearms for civilian sales and possession, effectively halting further importation of civilian accessible AK-47 rifles. In 1986, an amendment to the
Firearm Owners Protection Act stopped all future domestic manufacture of fully-automatic weapons for civilian use.
However, machine guns manufactured domestically prior to 1986 or imported prior to 1968 may be transferred between civilians in accordance with federal and state law. Several Soviet and
Communist Chinese rifles made it into the U.S. during the mid-1960s, when returning
Vietnam veterans brought them home after capture from enemy troops. Many of these were properly registered during the 1968 NFA amnesty.
Nevertheless, several states have laws on their books outlawing private possession of fully-automatic firearms even with NFA approval. Certain
semi-automatic AK-47 models were banned by the now-expired
Assault Weapons Ban of 1994–2004.
yay wikipedia.