Originally Posted By Sgt911:
The problem with a Saiga is you cant just go by the 1989 import ban, you must then add the 1998 Clinton executive order that banned all semi-automatics from being imported with the ability to accept high capacity magazines. If you add a high-cap mag (10+ for a rifle, 5+ for a shotgun) to a stock Saiga, you have just converted it into a configuration that is non-importable. That is why you just cant just stick a stock AK mag into a stock Saiga, or have to modify the mag well of a WASR. Even if you add a Surefire magazine, you still have to change one other part on a stock Saiga rifle The original 1989 ban did not specify mag capacity, it just said you couldn't have more than two evil features, that's why Maadis' and a couple others were still allowed to be imported during the AWB. Maadis' were imported with a 10rnd mag between 1994-1998. You could then use a pre 1994 high cap mag in a Maadi. Clinton basically, by executive order in 1998, amended the 1989 ban.

Note: if you add a high-cap mag and get the imports parts count to 10 or less, you can then do what ever your state will allow. I guess that would be an American made mag + one part for a stock rifle, and just an American made mag for a shotgun if the shotgun only has 13 import parts to begin with.