>>63897936
If you built guns from foreign parts kits you may have noticed the barrels came cut up for the last 20 years, before that you could get every part except the receivers. Then again, that probably happened before you were born. They were pretty cheap at the time too, $99 for a Romanian ak kit, $20 for a sumoi. That is unlikely to happen again as there has been a tremendous increase in interest for relatively modern foreign guns since then, with very few ways to get them. The benefit now is build guns will be more clone correct (barring 922r compliance,) we'll probably see more and different guns imported as parts kits, and no more barrels will be senselessly destroyed.

https://www.theakforum.net/threads/when-did-the-barrel-ban-go-into-effect.95505/