I think it's a darn shame that various laws prohibit the import of the millions of Cold War era rifles based on the AK platform. Another horrible thing is that even our OWN military surplus rifles cannot be sold to civilians, even if modified to only fire semi-auto.
IMHO it is about time to re-open the machine gun registry or get rid of it all together. (Alot of the NFA laws are a bit silly too.)
The tax money alone generated it would in the tens of millions by my guess.
Political/Fiscal Rant: We are about 4 Trillion-ish dollars in debt. This is from poor lending practices, over spending and an ongoing war. (Nothing you didn't already know.) However, the military (one of/if not THE most important service provided by our government) needs and deserves better funding. A simple way to help generate that money is through the sales of surplus equipment. However, this source of income is not being utilized fully due to certain laws
and choices being made. Essentially, military equipment is pair for by our taxes. Selling the same (now heavily used equipment) back to us is simply a
pure profit-making method of disposal. We already bought it. Let them use it
(while getting paid too). Why not let us pay some extra to "own" what we already paid for once before? Besides, we already bought new stuff to replace it anyway. Just seems silly to me.
I'm just sayin'.