We’re lucky the AWB had a sunset date. All the rest of them don’t. Nobody did anything when any major gun legislation was passed.
The Supreme Court ruled, in 1937, that it was unconstitutional to TAX a firearm that had a military use, specifically, a short-barrel shotgun.
Clock ahead to the present, and the so-called "conservative" wing of the Supreme Court claimed (lied) that the 1937 decision (Miller) says that the government can BAN the public from having military weapons.
The people have ZERO friends at the federal level. The whole enchilada is ROTTEN.