every gun store is selling out everywhere in America....even in Connecticut.........
I used to have 2...... I believe they were Romanian made Mac 90's....same thing as the AK47 7.62 I had 8 30 round mags and 2 75 rd drums...at the same time I had a Chinese SKS and a pistol on pistol grip pump shotgun with the extended tube and heat shield.......plus a 9 mm P Beretta(dont remember who made the 9 or shotgun)
man I tell ya it was a blast going through all those mags and the drums.....
thats when I didn't have kids and didn't care about anything, I was not "allowed" to own them due to something I did at 17 yrs old.....but I still had them.......I did get rid of all the firearms once the wife and I started having kids, not because I didn't want to raise my kids around them, I didn't want loose my kids due to having them.
they are fun.....but also very serious.....
oh and whoever said "Chinese crap" I liked my SKS quite a bit...very good gun.....mine was extremely accurate.
If your AK variant was Romanian, it was not an "MAK 90". Those were Chinese made by a company called "Norinco", the "MAK 90" was their shelf name for their semi-auto AKM. The BATF-E prohibited the Chinese from importing any more AK variant firearms when by pure luck a boat full of full auto MAK 90's were found off the coast of CA heading for the civilian market. The Chinese didn't make junk AK's as some may suggest, but they did like many others trying to make a profit: they changed some dimensions of a few things so that only Norinco brand mags and parts would fit in an otherwise standardized platform. I used to own an unfired Norinco NHM-91 (heavy barrel AK w/ bi-pod, sort of the SAW variant of the AK's), but sold it for a nice profit. Norinco makes a good product, but they are sort of like HK: they cant standardize jack and they refuse (or cant) be like anyone else.
Regarding your Chinese SKS you used to own, here is an interesting ti-bit: Back in 1992 or 1993 I went to a gun show in Sioux City, Iowa, and a dealer was selling Chinese SKS's. I think her had 3 or 4 of those 35 gallon cardboard barrels full of Chinese SKS's with many of them having the fixed 20rd magazine (yes, 20rd fixed mag not the typical 10rd) and he was selling them for 1 for $90, 2 for $160, or 3 for $225. They all looked like they had been through the Vietnam War and then drug across the ocean floor on their way to the US, but they still worked. A friend of mine bought one and still has it to this day. I waited and bought a pristine Russian SKS for $130 circa 1996.
In regards to owning/not owning firearms with kids around, I understand fully both sides of the coin. I have a 10 yo son and a 7 yo girl and guess what, they both know the importance of gun safety. They both know guns are not toys, and they both know to leave a place ASAP if a gun comes out by someone other than an adult. Also, both of my kids know, if need be, to unload most firearms. Ditto for my wife. I have a 900 lb gun safe that has all of my firearms in it (save for 1 locked up next to my bed), and no one has access (the combination) to the firearms in this house other than me, my wife, my father, and a close friend of the family. To me, it is more important to expose children early and teach them the rights and wrongs of firearms, the importance of gun safety, and the responsibility of having a gun in your hands. My kids get a bit edgy when the neighbor kids start pointing their realistic toy guns around at anything and anyone. However, I understand the angle of shielding children as well, although I disagree with it. To each his own.
FWIW, I'm not made at any dealer or person who is selling their "assault" rifles, magazines, etc, for inflated prices. I understand the concept but I hope it is all for naught. I was lucky enough over the years to buy here and there so when the SHTF in CT this past week and the media, the anti's, and other "anointed" people started talking about a new AWB, etc, I didn't have a hint of panic. I have plenty of everything for me and to pass down when the time comes. If it does happen, the value of SKS's are going to skyrocket, too.
Also, someone said that AR15's are good for nothing other than acting out a young boy's GI Joe dream, I beg to differ. I'll forgo the political side of things for obvious reasons, but FWIW I used my full sized Colt AR15 HBAR (heavy barrel) with great effect vs prairie dogs back in the mid 1990's, and I still use it today to hunt coyotes (I call them in, no redneck truck hunting by me). For prairie dogs I would load up the 20rd mags, lay on top of a prairie dog mound, and lay waste to everything inside 200 yards on a consistent basis. I reload ammo and fine tune it to the rifle, and I had the trigger smoothed out by a gunsmith. I could keep up with most bolt guns. So good for nothing??? Nah, I'll argue against that all day long.
As most of us know, an "assault rifle" is select fire meaning it can select semi-auto or full auto/burst. In order to have a true assault rifle in the US, first you have to live in a State that allows them. Second, you must go through a major back ground check including the reach around from Fat Bastard. Thirdly, pay a major tax to own one and the BATF-E knows you have it, too. Oh, did I mention the actual cost of buying one usually reaches 5 digits? The only difference between an AR15, Browning BAR (hunting rifle, not the WWII BAR squad support MG), and a Ruger Mini-14, is the appearance. That is it. Hopefully, people will come to terms with that real quickly.
