AnimeFanatic5602
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The Tigr rifle, made by Izhmash, is a civilianized sporting variation of the Dragunov SVD sniper rifle used by the Russian military. It was originally imported into the United States by B West, but due to anti-gun paranoia it was banned in the early 90's. In all honesty, the Tigr is not any better or worse than any of the semi-automatic sporting rifles on the market today. The only reason why it was singled out was that it closely resembles its military counterpart. Izhmash manufactures several variations of semi-automatic sporting rifles based on the AK-47, known as Saiga, that are legally imported into the U.S. every day, so why should this be excluded?
For this reason, I have started a petition to send to the BATF to allow the importation of these rifles once again. I hope that you will take a few seconds out of your day to sign this petition. The "assault rifle ban" may be gone, but its effects continue to linger on; it is my goal to help correct this.
http://www.petitiononline.com/izhtgr12/petition.html
I started another thread on this subject in the activism forum about a year ago, but it was closed after it deviated into a technical discussion, so I hope to have a bit more luck this time.
For this reason, I have started a petition to send to the BATF to allow the importation of these rifles once again. I hope that you will take a few seconds out of your day to sign this petition. The "assault rifle ban" may be gone, but its effects continue to linger on; it is my goal to help correct this.
http://www.petitiononline.com/izhtgr12/petition.html
I started another thread on this subject in the activism forum about a year ago, but it was closed after it deviated into a technical discussion, so I hope to have a bit more luck this time.