Is an AK-47 style weapon a rifle that was bought over 100 years ago?

Dallas TX

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Governor Adolph Abbott said long guns/rifles could be bought by a person over 18 years of age for over the past 100 years. How many gun stores in Texas sold the AK-47, and other weapons like it, 100 years ago. Today, do we/should we classify this style of weapon as a long gun/rifle. Would the Tommy gun (machine gun - now outlawed?) be considered just a regular long gun/rifle in today's NRA/Republican controlled Texas? When President Clinton outlawed the sale of the AK-47 and others like it....ask yourself....how many gun stores "went out of business" in that time frame....because they could no longer sell this type of weapon?