Won’t expiration of the Clinton Gun Ban mean AK-47s and Uzis be legal again?
“Unless the federal [assault weapon] law is reauthorized, it will expire and assault weapons will once again flood our streets. . . . If the law is not reauthorized, the manufacture and sale of AK-47s, UZIs and other assault weapons along with rapid-fire ammunition magazines will become legal again.” (Brady Campaign) “AK-47” and “Uzi” have wide name recognition and, thus, are useful to gun prohibitionists for propaganda purposes, as is the absurdly exaggerated verbiage about a “flood.” Notwithstanding anti-gun rhetoric, when the “assault weapon” law expires, foreign-made guns such as the AK-47 and Uzi will remain prohibited from importation under the BATFE’s 1989 reinterpretation of firearm importation law, reinterpreted even more restrictively in 1998. Similarly-designed “assault pistols” will remain prohibited from importation under BATFE’s 1993 reinterpretation of the same law. Street Sweepers and other revolving cylinder shotguns will remain prohibited under the National Firearms A
