The AWB is just one more of a seemingly infinite series of artifacts left over from The Decade of Fraud(s)... yes, I'm referring to the Golden Age of Clinton, as Wes Pruden at the Washington Times so acerbically described it some years ago.
It seems to me that if we really want to go down this road of banning certain Constitutionally-guarded things, based on one group or the others dislike of the way they look, that we should do the same thing with free speech- perhaps registering news organizations and reporters next...