AK 47 GSAD

**Wayne** · October 21st, 2009, 09:16 AM

Gentleman,

I recently purchased a preban AK 47 with the receiver marked GSAD MAHN. BEA. CA. The research that I have come up with says this was imported by Golden State Arms Distributor, Manhattan Beach California. The gun has no other markings except a faint China stamp on the barrel. Does anyone have any information as to what factory producted this gun? Thanks for any info.

**d90king** · October 21st, 2009, 09:32 AM

You might get a faster answer here> www.theakforum.net There were only a few factories building them back then, 386 would be my guess.

**mojo** · October 21st, 2009, 10:02 AM

Originally Posted by d90king

You might get a faster answer here> www.theakforum.net There were only a few factories building them back then, 386 would be my guess.

My guess too. You picked up a great gun. These were one of the first imported Chimcom AKs in the US.

Post some Pictures!

**Wayne** · October 21st, 2009, 10:26 AM

I would post pictures but, I have to admit I don't know how. I have some pictures saved in a pdf format only, can't get them to transfer. Sorry.

**Wayne** · October 21st, 2009, 11:18 AM

1.pdf

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Try these, I may have figured it out.

**Stormrider** · October 21st, 2009, 11:47 AM

The .pdf's work fine. Great looking rifle!

Most people when posting pictures upload them to a site like photobucket and then just post the link to them here.

**Smalls** · October 21st, 2009, 11:56 AM

Being a Noob to Ak/Ar's. What makes the Pre-ban version so special?

**Wayne** · October 21st, 2009, 12:07 PM

Originally Posted by Smalls

Being a Noob to Ak/Ar's. What makes the Pre-ban version so special?

Total build was in a factory, all parts are matching and don't have to worry about our goof-ball laws. I am quiet sure more goof-ball laws are to come. The post ban guns or either pieced together from kits or total American made that has to conform to the aforementioned laws.

**nfafan** · October 21st, 2009, 12:55 PM

Originally Posted by Smalls

Being a Noob to Ak/Ar's. What makes the Pre-ban version so special?

Add in FALs, SARs, G3s, CETMEs, Sterlings, FAMAS, H&K long-guns, EU AKs and IMI Galils and UZIs, Valmets, et al to your list;

the long and short of it is that "pre-ban" (pre-Nov 1989) guns can legally have all those evil features we had back then - bayo lugs, PGs, bayos, flash-hiders, folders, hi-caps - REGARDLESS of where the gun was made.

Thanks to the Bush I/Bennet ban; such evil features are only allowed on domestic-made guns; like the ARs, MSARs, etc.

Thus, with some exceptions for rimfires, foreign-made guns require a certain US-parts content to qualify as "domesticated" enough to allow for bayos, folders, hi-caps, etc. That's why SAIGAs and WASRs are initially brought into the USA as "sporting rifles".

EDIT - another reason for pre-ban desirability (aside from straight-up originality) is that in a few states where the 2A was whited-out of the constitution, the pre-bans are grandfathered in. We don't have such issues here in PA. Yet.

**Wayne** · October 21st, 2009, 01:10 PM

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Thanks to the Bush I/Bennet ban; such evil features are only allowed on domestic-made guns; like the ARs, MSARs, etc.

Amen, things are crazy and getting crazier.