I wouldn't have a problem with it except I am no longer in Bozeman. I couldn't afford school anymore so I am up in Troy, MT.
Trust me though, you need an AK:
1. It pisses the antis off and they desperately want to ban them.
2. You can get a decent one for under $400, less if you don't care about finish as much as if it goes bang when you pull the trigger. All AKs, as a generaly rule, disregarding three or four decades of neglect somewhere in Africa, do.
3. You can pull the trigger 1000 times for under $150, which is relatively rare among rifles.
4. It's durable, reliable, relatively accurate or enough so to accomplish its intended purpose (Minute-Of-Capitalist @ 300 yards or so), and hell, its fun too.
5. If everything goes Tango Uniform and you need a rifle for serious social encounters, you'll have one.
If you get one and hate it, you can always trade it towards an AR or something else. But you'll never know unless you take the plunge and get one.