SKS Bayonet = Bayonet Lug?

[Composition-4]

I was wondering if the Built in Bayonet on the SKS Constitutes a "a bayonet mount" as perscribed in the '94 Ban.

If the rifle is "Pre-Ban", and
It has Twist on Flash Hiders, a Removeable Magazine, a integrated Bayonet, and a Wood stock...Would it be illegal to put on a Synthetic, Folding, Pistol Grip stock?
Technical this weapon was already an Assault Weapon before the Ban, If Im correct...guidance is appreciated.

C-4


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[BarryPa]

It is my understanding that all SKS's are considered pre-ban and adding a folding stock would constitute a felony. Even attaching a spike bayo to a chinese SKS is a felony. I would be very careful about altering it very much. Check out- www.recguns.com (http://www.recguns.com) Click on FAQ and then LAWS, then Crime Bill. Also, i think that www.sksman.com (http://www.sksman.com) has some good legal stuff in it. Good luck.

[Mak]

Yes. The bayonet on an SKS does constitute a
bayonet mount for the purposes of the 1994 Crime Bill. However, with the SKS there are several other things to consider. Some of which is very confusing.

Basically, only Chinese SKS rifles imported before the 1989 import ban may have a bayonet on them if the bayonet was attached before the import ban of 1989. Even if your SKS was imported before 1989 and doesn't have a bayonet now but you want to add one, you can't. You can leave the empty bayonet mount on your gun but can't attach a bayonet. In 1990, Congress put into US Code the ban which prohibits the modification of a gun that would cause it to be banned from importation.
So, after 1990 (I forget exact dates) you couldn't add any of the following to your imported gun (pistol grip, bayonet mount,
threaded barrel, folding stock, flash hider, etc). That's why imported guns had to have their bayonet lugs ground off while in Customs or put on a thumbhole stock in place of the pistol grip. BATF has made very few exceptions to this rule but one of them is the .22LR rifles coming into the US from the Phillipines which are styled after the M-16
and AK-47. So as of 1990, you couldn't add any of the evil features to a Chinese SKS and have it legal unless you used a certain number of American made parts. This means that you couldn't turn it into an "assault weapon" by the 1994 definition if it wasn't an "assault weapon" before 1990. So with the SKS you run into two laws. Lots of people are unaware of the import law. If your SKS had all of its evil features before 1990, you can still do anything you want to it. I can write more if you have other questions but those are the basics. The oddball are the Russian and Romanian SKS rifles because they can legally have a bayonet attached as they are imported as "Curios and Relics" and must be in original military issue to be able to be imported. They are an exception.



[This message has been edited by Mak (edited 11-22-1999).]

[Composition-4]

Well, I was talking to the seller and he tells me that the rifles are 'Pre Ban' and I can do anything I want to them basically...
I'm just trying to get personal Clarification.
BTW, how do I know if its pre-ban? Do I go straight from the word of the previous owner?

C-4

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