Can someone clarify precisely what is pre-ban/post-ban?

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I own an SKS which I've been able to concretely determine was manufactured in 1980 using the serial numbers. I've been reading quite a bit about pre-ban and post-ban rifles and can't readily determine how I can figure out if my rifle is one or the other. Could it have been made in 1980 but not imported until 1997? How does one actually figure this out.

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Rome
 
The Federal Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 Title XI, prohibits the manufacture, sale, and possession of specific makes and models of military-style semiautomatic firearms and other semiautomatics with multiple military-style features (detachable magazines, flash suppressors, folding rifle stocks, and threaded barrels for attaching silencers) and outlaws most large capacity magazines (ammunition- feeding devices) capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition. Weapons and magazines manufactured prior to September 13, 1994, are exempt from this and consequently refereed to as "Preban". Because of "supply and demand" these Preban collectibles have been an attractive commodity sought after by investors and sportsmen alike.
 
"Pre-ban" is everything you wanted....

"Post-ban" is NOTHING you want....

Sort of like the Cardiologist's Diet: if it tastes good, spit it out.
 
here is a post i made on AR15.com

it should also apply to any preban SAW:

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>any AR gun assembled and functioning pre 1994 is classified as a Semiautomatic Assault Weapon.
Pre ban SAWs can have all features.
An unassembled lower is not a SAW. It had the potential to be a SAW but if it could not shoot it can only be a postban part. Some
manufacturers had un assembled parts in a box and as long as those parts added up to a rifle the ATF alowed that serial number
to be a SAW. A pre ban serial numbered lower that you buy next week is not a preban SAW, unless the lower was disassembled
from a SAW.

there are no NIB preban lowers that can be built into preban configuration.

If you buy a preban rifle is a good idea to get a paper that certifies the rifle was a funtioning rifle pre September 1994.

Theoretically you could of built a lower up, mated an upper then disassembled the parts, pre 1994 and that lower is preban.
Proving that happened is the trick.

A bunch of lowers shipped out pre 1994 as parts. I have no idea how the ATF would prove that they were or were not assembled in
time.

dZ[/quote]
 
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