Excuse the topic, just throwing those keywords in there for later.
Here's a bit of a dilema. I can get my grubby paws on a Soviet/Russian-made, prestine condition SVD. I do not believe I'll have much of an issue with getting it into the US. (I could be wrong, too). However, because of the stock, more particularly, the pistol grip, in combination with the semi-auto nature of the weapon, California says this is an assault rifle, and something tells me they'd not be wild about my trying to get it into the state.
The question I have is this - is there anything I can do? Like hand the rifle over (or have directly delivered) to a gunsmith who will replace the stock with something which will make the weapon comply with the Anti-Assault rifle legislation? Or am I SOL?
Here's a bit of a dilema. I can get my grubby paws on a Soviet/Russian-made, prestine condition SVD. I do not believe I'll have much of an issue with getting it into the US. (I could be wrong, too). However, because of the stock, more particularly, the pistol grip, in combination with the semi-auto nature of the weapon, California says this is an assault rifle, and something tells me they'd not be wild about my trying to get it into the state.
The question I have is this - is there anything I can do? Like hand the rifle over (or have directly delivered) to a gunsmith who will replace the stock with something which will make the weapon comply with the Anti-Assault rifle legislation? Or am I SOL?