Today’s versions accept standard double-stack, 30-round, AK-47 magazines thankfully. Century Arms currently offers four models of the WASR-10, including one that’s California compliant.

Balanced on top is a WASR-10, a Romanian version of an AK-47. With two of its 30-round clips, Manchester estimates he could fire off 60 rounds in less than 90 seconds.

A WASR-10 was used in at least one other mass shooting. On Dec. 5, 2007, Robert Hawkins, 19, killed eight people at an Omaha, Nebraska, shopping mall before killing himself.

Authorities initially said the weapon used was the WASR-10, a Romanian-built weapon that looks like an AK-47 and is considered an assault rifle under California law and therefore banned.

El Paso police previously said that the AK-47 used in the shooting that killed 22 people was bought legally, but they did not provide any additional details about its purchase.In a manifesto ...

El Paso shooting suspect Patrick Crusius, 21, says he purchased his AK-47 rifle from Romania and his ammo from Russia in his August 3 attack in a Walmart that left 22 dead.

The AK-47 soon became the deadly tangible symbol of revolution—Palestinian, Angolan, ... I purchased a Romanian-made Century Arms WASR-10 for roughly $800.00. Since then, ...