Saw an AIA go for $1300 last month. So reasonable sellers still exist. For a rifle which origiunally cost $700 to $800 and was hardly even worth that price, prices of $2000 to $2500 and even attempts at far higher only exist because of arsehole collectors. Almost all the rifles offered for sale, claim "only shot 40 or 50 shots" or similar.

If I had real choices I would want a:
AK47 or similar;
SKK;
AIA;
SMLE conversion. In that order. If the first two were legal here.

Must take SKK magazines and use the proper 7.62x39 cartridges, not .308 ammo.

Not interested in s[pending much money at all on the project. Have lots of ammo to use. Project has certain aspects to it I want fulfilled. Some of which I wouldn't record here.

Other types of rifles cpould of course be a possibility, but with every extra rifle I add to the gun safe, it is starting to make it difficult to buy another rifle, especially of the same ca;libre. So aiming to have my real desires fulfilled.