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Further down in the article.
So, if a AR sporting rifle has a charging handle it does not have a bolt bolt and would be banned. But, a AK has a manually operated bolt (used for the first round) and thus is a sporting rifle that uses a bolt action to make the firearm ready to fire. Technicality? Maybe.
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I may be wrong so please excuse me and enlighten me. AR type sporting rifles use, what I told back in my military days, a "charging handle" vs. a bolt such as a AK. Even though the bill specifies firearms by name/model number."[T]he bill includes a number of exemptions: It exempts more than 2,200 hunting and sporting weapons; any gun manually operated by a bolt, pump, lever or slide action; any weapons used by government officials and law enforcement; and any weapons legally owned as of the date of the bill's enactment."
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs...-bill-exempt-government-officials_697732.html
So, if a AR sporting rifle has a charging handle it does not have a bolt bolt and would be banned. But, a AK has a manually operated bolt (used for the first round) and thus is a sporting rifle that uses a bolt action to make the firearm ready to fire. Technicality? Maybe.
We need a syntax pretzel emoticon.