Heheh. Reminds of why 7.62x54R is so easy to come by 20 years after the fall of the Soviet Bloc.
Speaking of more accessible hardware is that there is a much broader field of scopes available, of course they were out there but you can now buy thermal heatvison rifle scopes from Cabelas, and the traditional name brand “sniper” scopes are also at Cabelas.
If there is anything a person REALLY needs to buy its a high end scope, before the Feds ban all of them.
In one of Matt Brackens novels the feds did just very same thing.