Most of the AK-style guns for sale in the U.S. have american made recievers with FORMER Soviet block parts assembled in the U.S. - that way they aren't "imported" by BATF definition.
cycling the bolt on an AK is a pretty unnerving sound as well.
I guess I chose "brandish" as it is a legal definition. I rejected "display" or "show" as they seemed to imply holding up a weapon and saying "look what I have." But I meant brandish in the way you describe, aiming it with a verbal warning.
I have frangible rounds as I live in a brick row house with kids as neighbors and would rather be killed by a bad guy than accidently kill a kid.
I don't accept either of those expressions as a philosophy. By accepting a waiting period, you are saying that when it comes to the exercise of your fundamental rights, you believe you cannot be trusted to do so without the approval of the government. If you believe it for one right, the same arguments work for the limit of any of the others. Those rights are not granted by the government, rather the government is blocked by the Bill of Rights from restricting them.
And to use your example of a riot, wouldn't it be more effective for the government to restrict objectionable speech so as to prevent riots rather than allow them to happen under free speech and then block people's means to protect themselves after it happens?
Would you have a problem with a 7 day waiting period before responding to this or any other article or any other opinion you wish to express- after passing mandatory training of course? A fundamental right is just that - fundamental.
As the VAST majority of uses of firearms to stop crimes end with a weapon being brandished, not fired, to a dumb criminal (a redundant term) a semi-automatic AK-47 is scarier than a shotgun. As most criminal are at least as misinformed as the author of this article, they would think they are facing a potential spray of automatic fire.
If you are familiar with pistols, you would only fire one single-handed if you have been injured.
Real (full auto) AK-47s are difficult to fire accurately in automatic bursts due to its well-deserved reputation for muzzle lift. It's accuracy as a semi-automatic rifle suffers more from its use by third world untrained fighters in fire-from-the-hip 'spray and pray' fashion than any actual lack of performance. It is no hunting or sniper rifle, but to use the word 'lousy' to describe its accuracy is inaccurate.
I am almost certain that the voucher is NOT for an AK-47 ASSAULT RIFLE. Such a weapon is capable of fully automatic (machine gun fire), would have to be a used 20 year-old weapon and would require ENORMOUS paperwork and licensing to aquire. In addition, it would likely cost tens of thousands of dollars as its import and manufacture have been banned since the 1st Clinton term. Almost certainly, the voucher is for a semi-automatic rifle that is an "AK-47" in appearance, NOT in operation costing less than $1,000.. Calling a semi-automatic rifle an ASSAULT RIFLE is not only a gross error, it also creates the false impression that what most people would call "machine guns" are both common and easily available - neither of which could be further from the truth.
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