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Sledog
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The Gilroy shooter did not use an AK47. He used an SKS which has a fixed 10 round magazine. Seems the police chief said AK47 at some point and the media and online world went batty with it. It was not and is not an "assault weapon". Although since it is an improper name and used by people that know nothing about firearms they define an assault weapon as anything and everything. I'm sure they weren't trying to mislead the public......
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https://ktla.com/2019/07/30/gilroy-festival-shooter-bought-ak-47-style-rifle-in-nevada-brought-it-to-california-illegally/
Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee initially described the weapon as an "SKS," which is a semi-automatic rifle designed by the Soviet Union during World War II and later widely manufactured in Eastern Europe and China. It has a traditional wooden stock with a fixed magazine that holds 10 bullets.
While it looks superficially similar to the better-known and more modern AK-47, the standard SKS does not have a pistol grip or detachable high-capacity magazine that would make it illegal under California's assault weapons definition. A variation with an attached grenade launcher would be illegal.
"The SKS is generally legally in California if it has a 10-round magazine ... and it's got a full-length wooden stock. It looks like a hunting rifle," said Sam Paredes, executive director of Gun Owners of California. "It's pretty much an antique rifle. There are hundreds of thousands of them in private possession in California, all legal."
Officials later clarified that the gunman used a semi-automatic variant of the AK-47, which appears to have a detachable magazine and wooden stock with a pistol grip.
"Under the configuration of that gun, it would be illegal for him to import it into the state," Paredes said.
Ammunition magazines in California are generally restricted to holding no more than 10 bullets, though that is being challenged in court. That plus the pistol grip would qualify it as an assault weapon that would have to be registered if it was owned in California and would be illegal to bring into the state.
A law enforcement official told The Associated Press that investigators believe the gunman used a WASR-10, which is a Romanian variant of the AK-47, selling for about $700 at Big Mike's Guns and Ammo in Fallon, Nevada, where he picked up the weapon.
I'll readily agree with anybody who argues that lawmakers spend too much political capital on bullshit cosmetics, and that America's real problem lies with easily portable and concealable handguns and not the relatively small number of sensational shootings perpetrated with assault rifles
Always fun to hear the party of lawn odor talking about taking up arms against the govt.
That's why we have a second amendment. To prevent tyranny of government and personal protection.
When you’re not keeping the government at bay, are you able to use it for hunting?
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