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Originally Posted by sjohnson
You could have any ONE of a the "evil" features and it'd still be a sporting rifle. I've seen no ATF ruling on what exactly constitutes a "sporting" rifle, so it's conjecture just what may or may not be present on a PSL before it loses it's importable "sporting" status.
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Which is why we have to go back to the 1989 ATF report on
"Report and Recommendation on the Importability of Certain Semiautomatic Rifles."
"On March 14, 1989, ATF announced that it was suspending, effective
immediately, the importation of several makes of assault-type
rifles, pending a decision as to whether these weapons meet the
statutory test that they are of a type generally recognized as
particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting
purposes. The announcement stated that ATF would not approve,
until further notice, the importation of AKS-type weapons, Uzi
carbines, FM/FAL-type weapons, FN/FNC-type weapons and Steyr Aug
semiautomatic weapons. On April 5, 1989, the suspension was
expanded to include all similar assault-type rifles.
For purposes of this suspension, assault-type rifles were rifles
which generally met the following criteria:
a. military appearance
b. large magazine capacity
c. semiautomatic version of a machinegun"
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/wb...989_report.txt
This gives examples of allowed and prohibited weapons. Unfortunately it shows that they were not consistent in the application of the criteria all the time. Since the PSL does not have a large magazine capacity, is not a semi-auto version of a machine gun, and generally does not have a military "appearance", "appearance" being equated to military features and not sinister looks... Military appearance is pistol grips, night sights, bayonet lug, grenade launcher, etc. Then the PSL is unlikely to meet the criteria to ban it from import.
Enjoy
Mark