On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 22:44:54 -0400, Alex wrote:

Most AK-47's, like mine, are not "machine guns". Next topic...

Actually all AK 47s are machine guns. The things people call AK 47s
aren't AK 47s, they just look a little like them and share the basic
design.
I knew a guy with an AK 47 (genuine early Russian manufacture, not an
AKM )and it was a very rare piece. It was a war trophy from Vietnam
that was put into the registry in the 1968 amnesty and became
transferrable. Very few were registered and none were legally imported
as far as I know. They pretty much all got smuggled in, stashed on
duffle bags. Few guys knew enough to get them into the registry.