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Originally posted by theking
...will expire Monday and it is being reported that Congress will not renew the ban...even if the President urges that it be renewed...which he won't.
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It's a useless ban anyway.. It's very misleading as a bill name.. Even with the Ban in place you can still legally buy a M4 or a AK47 or just about any other assault rifle. The ban simply changed the configuration you could buy them as.. For example on a M4 you couldn't have a folding stock and a short barrel (think it had to be atleast 12 inches) But you could have one or the other.
However if you wanted to bypass the whole law all you had to do was locate a lowe reciver which was dated pre ban and you could do almost what you wanted just not have it auto..
for example this is just on company of many tyou can legaly buy these kinds of firearms from.. ban or no ban
http://www.armalite.com/sales/catalog/rifles.htm