definition of "assault weapon" was peculiar. In the legalese of the
bill, they referred to the existing legal definitions of rifle,
pistol, shotgun, and antique. IIRC, the bill wasn't explicitly banning
them but because they got caught up in the odd match of definitions,
they were effectively banned. Just another example of how the law was
peculiar in how it banned mostly cosmetic aspects. I think that was
under the Reagan version of the ban and got removed in the Clinton
revision.
Yes, some banned and legal semi-auto guns can be modified to be
fully-auto. But then the person would be in violation of a
pre-existing Federal law prohibiting ownership of an automatic weapon.
-Kevin
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:25:21 -0700 (PDT), Sam Morris
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't know much about it but I was told the original
> ban included a couple of powder loaded civil war
> relics and that pissed off collectors.
> Also, only fully-auto uzi's are banned. You can buy a
> semi-auto uzi and saw off the pin in 5 minutes making
> it fully-auto. The point is the ban was just for show
> anyway.
>
> -sm
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