RE: "The Pew" Community || HIVE-139358

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I live in the Land of the Allegedly Free, and anyone who knows anything about firearms should know that actual machine guns and assault rifles are subject to heavy regulation here, but the general public thinks semi-auto-only AR clones and similar modern rifles are "assault weapons" just because they are made of materials invented after 1800 and designed with ergonomics in mind.

And I'm afraid I completely overlooked the image notes at the end of your post. I suppose a modern sporting rifle could be converted to a straight-pull bolt action by deleting the gas impingement or piston mechanism. No port in the barrel and the bolt can remain the same, essentially, right?



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Gun regulations got turned on their head here in Australia after a 34-person massacre in Port Arthur. It is different state by state but fairly similar across all. It's different to America though, and there's a lot of false information flying around.

I think that's the thing with it; One needs to know the laws for the area in which they live and that's about it. I have no idea what the laws are there, only that I have been told California are more strict on certain firearms than some other states.

As far as people who use the word assault when referring to particular rifles...Well, again, people should learn about what they speak of, before speaking...But they generally don't of course.

I'm not sure how easy a gas gun could be turned into a bolt gun but your logic seems sound. Going the other way, bolt to gas would not be as easy I think. That WFA1 is a decent him though, a bit of fun to use, although would be better in semi-auto.

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