Does anyone make a folding stock for a Mak90

shutnstr8

I'm hoping someone can tell me if anyone makes a folding stock for a Mak90. Or if there are any existing models out there, please tell me what I should be looking for. I'm not interested in legal opinions.(I don't live in the Peoples Republic of CA.) Thanks.....

boeboe

Folding stocks speciifically for the MAK-90 have never been made because it would be illegal to install one. Surplus AK47 folding stocks are available for those who care to replace the stock on their legitimate pre-'89 ban AK47s.

boeboe

SaxonPig, one exception to your comment, if a firearm was without a folding stock but already classified as an assault weapon because of other qualifying features, it would be legal to add a folding stock. You can change the configuration of a gun already considered an assault weapon by adding or removing features. Because it is already an assault weapon, you can't make it any more an assault weapon by changing the configuration.

boeboe

Ask yourself, if a gun is already an assault weapon, how can it be made into an assault weapon? How can you break the law by manufacturing an assault weapon if you start with one assault weapon, modify it, and only have one assault weapon when you are done? You haven't manufactured an assault weapon because it already was an assault weapon. They can't charge you with manufacturing an assault weapon because there are no more assault weapons than before you made the modifications.For example, a pre-ban AR15 that had a collapsable stock, pistol grip, but a 24" bull barrel upper (without flash hider or bayonet lug) would be considered an assault weapon because it had two of the qualifying features prior to the ban. It is already an assault weapon. You could put a different upper on it that had a bayonet lug and flash hider, and it is legally no more of an assault weapon than it was before. A firearm is either an assault weapon or it is not. If it was an assault weapon to begin with, it can't be made into an assault weapon.And I know that there are probably not many AR15s out there with collapsable stocks and bull barrels, that was just an example.[This message has been edited by boeboe (edited 01-09-2002).]

JudgeColt

boeboe is correct. Once an "assault weapon," it remains an assault weapon, and can be modified at will. There is one very distrubing exception recently brought to light on one of the sites I check. Apparently, the ATF has ruled that an "assault weapon" can lose its AW status if the reciever is stripped of the qualifying parts and those parts are disposed of, leaving a bare receiver. It then cannot legally be returned to AW status. That means all of the "pre-ban" receivers being offered are legally "post-ban" receivers when it comes to adding AW parts to them. It is illegal to do so.Is it not amazing how the AW law has distorted all the long-accepted law and regulations? Since regulation began, the receiver was always the firearm, no matter how configured. A machine gun receiver with the select-fire parts removed was still a machine gun, etc. Now the AW law has created a new class of exceptions to that long standing position. We have to get this ridiculous law "sunsetted" in 2004. Vote Republican and pray.

toolman9mm

just my two cents. i recently purchased a k-var kit in bullpup configuration. well they said that only a few hand tools were required but i had to use the dremmel alot. after i was done though i had a wild looking and fun shooting ak and totally legal. and very short. this was done on a polytech. i picked it up on gunbroker for $125 but they sell for i think $229. i have a folder that i would sell or trade. let me know toolman9mm@yahoo.com thanks tom

kimberkid

JudgeColt,I have heard that Bush has already said he would not let the "sunset" on the Brady Bill happen ... although I wish he would, most likely it would be political sucide if he did. The problem being that not enough gun owners get off their butt to vote ... the same way we got into this mess.

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