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  • rufe-snow
    The aftermarket extended capacity magazines will work with the original Chinese stocks. You have to disassemble the SKS, remove the original magazine assembly. Then reassemble the SKS with the aftermarket magazine back into the Chinese stock. The feds made the aftermarket magazine manufacturers alter their magazines so that they wouldn't function as detachable mags.
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  • TWalker
    I have used the after market detachable mags with the "duckbill" in standard Chinese SKS's. You don't need to change stocks. However, I don't recommend using these aftermarket 30 round mags. I prefer to simply reload using 10 round stripper clips in the standard "issue"
    10 round fixed magazine. If you use detachable mags in a Chinese SKS, to be legal, you must remove the bayonet and bayonet lug,and not have a pistol grip or folding stock.... or add enough US made parts to be 922 compliant. It is probably best to just buy an AKS instead of altering your SKS. If you buy the stock you posted, you definitely must add enough US made parts to comply with Federal Regulation 922r, otherwise you will be guilty of a felony when you add it to your SKS with a detachable magazine. As I said, buy an AKS instead and enjoy your SKS "as is". If you read the details closely for the stock you are considering , you will note that it doesn't include a magazine. You'll still have to buy a "duckbill" style detachable magazine for about $30 or more.
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  • Horney toad
    Thanks. I took the old magazine assembly out, but can't get the tapco mag to fit, it's a little big.

    I had no idea about regulation 922r. If that's the case, wouldn't it be a violation just to own a SKS since it has more than 10 imported parts in it?
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  • TWalker
    It's OK to own a SKS as imported without the US made parts count required by 922r as long as your SKS has only 1 "evil feature" such as detachable mag, bayonet or bayonet lug, pistol grip, or folding stock. If you add a second evil feature, you have to either remove another feature or upgrade the US parts count to make it no longer considered an "imported weapon". It's not illegal (federal laws) to own an SKS improperly configured, but it is illegal for you to make the modifications. However, illegally modified weapons may be confiscated by ATF. I have never heard of the ATF charging anyone with SKS violations but be aware that they can if they choose to. It's better to be on the safe side. Many think that the Assault Weapon law, that expired after 10 years, eliminated the 922r provisions but it did not. 922r came before the 1994 law and still applies.
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  • Wolf.
    I like the SKS. For your consideration, here's what I did with mine.

    I kind of went "the other way" with my Chinese "carbine" style (short) gun. I removed and tossed the bayonet and wood stock and removed the ten-round fixed magazine.

    I bought a plain, black, composite sporter stock (not a raised, "monte carlo" style) from Choate Machine and Tool and a Chinese five-round fixed magazine and assembled those. Those few changes made a big difference in the gun. It is easy to handle, more streamlined and is almost unrecognizable to most people.

    A bigger magazine, to me, makes the gun harder to handle from a prone or rest position.
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  • beantownshootah
    Its my understanding that section 922a has never actually been put to legal test. . .ie nobody has ever been convicted of violating it, and the BATFE doesn't want to generate that test case, since 922a itself might not stand up to legal review.

    The prohibition isn't against OWNING a non-compliant rifle, its against constructing (ie ASSEMBLING) one, something that can be pretty hard to prove.

    Supposedly the BATFE's policy is just to confiscate non-compliant guns it encounters. Whether or not this policy itself is legal is debatable, but realistically since nobody is going to sue the BATFE over a $300 gun (ie potentially risking FAR more in legal cost and risk) they can get away with this.

    Anyway, I'm not saying you should violate the rule, just that the realistic penalty for owning an SKS with a high cap magazine and/or folding stock on it probably isn't really ten years in the Federal slammer. There are a gazillion non-compliant SKS guns out there, in fact its probably true that most of the ones that are in other than pure stock form are non-compliant. The BATFE *will* throw you in the slammer for an unpapered full auto gun or an illegal silencer, but this. . .questionable.

    IMO, the point is moot anyway, because the best configuration for an SKS is the original one. Stripper clips + fixed wood stock is the most reliable configuration, the least scary "looking" (which does matter), plus the one that's legal just about everywhere. Lots (probably most) of the hi-cap/detachable mags simply don't work right anyway.
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