I'm sorry to display my ignorance about this, but I'm trying to confirm whether or not it is possible for a non-grandfathered person such as myself to legally purchase a semi-automatic only rifle chambered in .308WIN that looks like one of those beautiful FN-FAL battle rifles? I know the government website says "The firearm of the design commonly known as the FN-FAL (FN-LAR) rifle, and any variant or modified version of it" is prohibited, but it says nothing at all about, say, a C1A1. (Strangely, the M-16 family is only restricted, not prohibited! 
) Are there no "copies" of this rifle that are technically speaking not of the FN-FAL "design" but look like it, and that are semi-auto only without the possibility of conversion to full auto (I have no use for full auto!)? There's no urgency to my question, but I am thinking ahead to what I'd like in my collection...
...thanks for any light you might shed on my query.
) Are there no "copies" of this rifle that are technically speaking not of the FN-FAL "design" but look like it, and that are semi-auto only without the possibility of conversion to full auto (I have no use for full auto!)? There's no urgency to my question, but I am thinking ahead to what I'd like in my collection......thanks for any light you might shed on my query.
