Reply #4: Except that the 1994 Feinstein law did no such thing.

[benEzra]

Rendell is pretty much waving a big sign that says "I don't know WTF I'm talking about." Somebody gets his gun knowledge from watching CSI reruns (or from misunderstanding Brady Campaign press releases).

Importation or manufacture of military AK-47's for the U.S. civilian market was banned in 1986 by the Hughes Amendment to the McClure-Volkmer Act, after having been subject to the Title 2/Class III restrictions of the National Firearms Act ever since they were invented. I have read there are fewer than 200 lawfully in non-government hands in the United States.

New civilian AK lookalikes (non-automatic) were NOT banned by the Feinstein law; those manufactured after 9/1994 just had to have smooth muzzles, a smooth-bottomed gas block, and a fixed stock. Mine is a 2002 model.

Somebody should tell him that the police officers around him are all wearing "weapons of semiautomatic nature" on their hips. I wonder if he knows that the police also drive "cars of internal combustion nature" and wear "shoes of hydrocarbon thermopolymer nature."