[stm]

The assault weapon's ban was not really a ban anyway. You could still legally buy "pre-ban" weapons, they were just more expensive. I got an M-4 from Bushmaster that was identical in every respect (except for the selector), to the M-4 I carried in Iraq. And that was long before this ban expired.

[hiredhand]

Case in point....These weapons were bought about TWO years before the ban expired. They were purchased through federally licensed dealers as well. There are only three rifles total in these photos. We bought two Armalite A2/AR-15s, and the FN-FAL ("mostly" STG-58) sometime in 2000 or so. A friend of mine bought the flat topped Armalite just before the ban expired.

So much for the ban. The law passed by Bush Sr. in 1986 needs to be repealed though!





Here's one for all the "Haters of Evil Black Guns with High Capacity Magazines, and Pistol Grips". Can you identify this one? All of you who KNOW what this "thing" is, don't tell! :-)


...and lastly another one for all the "Haters of Evil Black Guns with High Capacity Magazines, and Pistol Grips". Stinky the Buck Goat says, "WHAT are YOU looking at?!" :-)

[Marauder]

And that was long before this ban expired.

Any bets as to whether they'll try to "correct" that little "problem?"

My tagline applies to liberals and democRats as well. Damn them all.

[GW and Twins Pawpaw]

I would like to have a 'real' M-4. Three round bursts are neat...

[El Gato]

I got an M-4 from Bushmaster that was identical in every respect (except for the selector), to the M-4 I carried in Iraq.

Well, not quite. The barrel was likely longer, but that, like the selector, is part of the National Firearms Act, not the AW ban. It probably didn't have a bayonet lug and also probably had a muzzle brake rather than a flash suppressor, or no muzzle device at all, courtesy of the AW ban. Unless it was a pre-ban example. But that doesn't mean the ban wasn't a ban, it was just a ban on new production... just like the 1986 ban on production of new machine guns for sale to civilians.