uh, an AK is Russian, hardly Chinese. if lurch has a chinese machine gun (or any other kind), then he needs to be investigated by ATF, charged, and thrown in the hoosegow.
The ATF don't throw people in the hoosegow.
They burn your house down.
Saves money in court costs.
So, a minor detail in the proof. John Kerry answer the question. In all fairness, I have to give credit to Dan Rather for that response.
No, there are lots of Chinese AK knock-offs.
I assumed he was talking about owning an SKS.
AK-47s, as well as SKSs were made in Russia, China, Czechoslovakia, etc. The Russian-made models were the best of the lot.
It is a Warsaw Pact rifle - commie made - but a damn fine weapon. I still use my Chinese SKS for deer hunting. It's pretty accurate up to 150-175 yards or so. The 7.62 X 39 soft core ammo drops 'em in their tracks.
I am more interested in the fact that it propably has a bayonet lug and a flash supressor. Both these items are on the Assault Weapons Ban list of no-no items!
The design is Soviet, by a man named Kalashnikov, but it has been produced in many countries, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, E. Germany, Egypt and others. Norinco produces them in China. IIRC, some of the ones the NVA used were Chinese, although I think more may have been from other countries, primarily Russia and it's east European vassals, since Chinese and Vietnamese have "issues" that go back way before WW-II, many generations before.