Before listening to the idiots telling you the Garand is now outlawed and other such stupidity, read this site and pay particular attention to the two excerpts from it I pasted below...
http://www.mass.gov/ago/public-safety/awbe.html (under the Questions & Answers tab)
http://www.mass.gov/ago/public-safety/awbe.html (under the Questions & Answers tab)
- There are many rifles on the market that are not semiautomatic or which don’t take a detachable magazine. These are not Assault weapons under Massachusetts law.
- Under Massachusetts law, any weapons listed in Appendix A to 18 U.S.C. § 922, as appearing on September 13, 1994, are not considered Assault weapons and are not covered by the Enforcement Notice.