AW Ban Legality Question

[Nightcrawler]

Normally on a semiauto you're allowed two evil features. On most, it's a pistol grip and a detachable box mag.

If you took a rifle, like an AK, and put a thumbhole stock on it, would you be allowed an extra evil feature, like a flash suppressor? Or does the thumbhole stock not get you around that?

(Just curious.)

 

[Hkmp5sd]

No. That was one of the first things everyone thought of so ATF as ruled that a thumbhole stock is the same as a pistol grip stock on AR's and AK's.

 

[CleverNickname]

No, you're allowed ONE evil feature. A detachable mag is not an evil feature, per se. It's a defining feature. A rifle is not an 'assault weapon' without one. Consequently, if you permanently attach a magazine to a rifle that normally would use detachable magazines, you can put all the evil features you want on it.

 

[Nightcrawler]

I don't know about that. That means it'd be legal to put a folding stock on an SKS or a Garand so long as the fixed magazine was still in place.

 

[Tamara]

Nightcrawler,

I don't know about that. That means it'd be legal to put a folding stock on an SKS or a Garand so long as the fixed magazine was still in place.

Garand, yes; SKS, no. The SKS is imported and thus falls under different rules.

 

[Hkmp5sd]

CleverNickname is correct. The assault rifle is a semi-automatic rifle that can accept a detachable box magazine and has any two of the evil features. This is how the FAB-10 is able to be owned in California. It is essentiall an AR receiver that has a 10 round fixed magazine. Since this doesn't have the detachable magazine, it can have all of the evil features the owner wants.

As Tamara stated, the SKS falls into a different catagory due to it being imported.