would apply, unless the actual weapon is over 50 years old.

Do you have proof that the gun used in Dallas is 50 years old? I have seen no such information, but I have no problem with being proven wrong.

Edited to correct my inaccurate subject line

due to import sanctions against the Chinese company Norinco, though millions were imported prior to the late?-1990s when importation ceased. If it was a non-Chinese SKS, it was probably a C&R (my ex-wife's Russian SKS was made in 1952), but if Chinese-made it probably wasn't.

This one lists production numbers into the 90s.

Dating THE CHINESE sKs

I am no expert on it, and if that can be refuted, I'll be glad to retract my statement.

I remember seeing Chinese SKS's for $69 around 1993-1994 and thought about picking one up, but passed for financial reasons. My then-wife later picked up a Russian (1952 Tula) instead for $99.00; she suggested getting two, and I should have listened.

I purchased a Chinese SKS with my C&R license before Oregon passed a law making the C&R license useless.

Sounds like you really thought that one through.

Must everything be just Black and White?

He used a Saiga AK-74 if the following photo circulating the 'net of what is alleged to be his rifle is true.

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Here's the Saiga in its factory straight stock:



Which is not, I'll point out, an "assault weapon". No protruding handgrip, no "evil features", just a plain civilian semiauto rifle.

Saiga in factory configuration is even legal in New York. I don't know about California.