Hi. I am a Battlefield 2 modder, I work with ported weapons, do some textures, basic map making and tweaking and stuff. When I'm not modding I'm hunting, fishing, playing some sports, playing other mods for BF2 (FH2 is my favorite).
I live in New York State, a state with very strict gun laws (you can only have seven rounds in a mag, for example) and I am going to demonstrate an example of the laws. Here we have two M1 Carbines, the top is a World War II version and the bottom in a Korean War version. they are both the same thing except the bottom hase a bayonet lug, in New York the bottom is classified as an "assault rifle" and must be registered with the State Government while the top one is not an "assault rifle."
A small metal piece is the only difference? US government needs to learn the meaning of "assault rifle"... LOL.