How has the "Assault Weapons" ban affected you?

vanity-self | 4/19/03 | self

[Wild Game]

Has the "Assault Weapons" ban prevented you from enjoying, purchasing, selling or trading firearms? How? How did it not change anything for you?

[Wild Game]

What are you talking about?

I've made it clear I'm opposed to this ban.

Should John Hinkley be allowed to own a firearm? After all, it doesn't affect me because I didn't try to kill the President.

Our laws need to reflect morals. Self protection, preserving life, general freedom. But should a convicted child rapist be armed to make his next post-parole victim comply easier? I know, "he can get a gun off the streets" BULL$hit! Not everyone (even convicts) know how, or who to get a gun off the street from.

Who shoudn't we, as a "moral" Country NOT allow a firearm.? If anyone at all? Goodness me if I'm not affect by being a rapist or insane Presidental assassin, GOOD!

[AAABEST]

Never mind the fact that my kids will never see some of the freedoms I enjoyed. Such as bringing my .22 to a Long Island New York school in 1978 for participation in the gun club. I used to walk down the street with a 12 gauge to go to a squirrel hunting spot I enjoyed. It's absurd to even contemplate either now, I'd be a felon for such innocent activities.

This just goes to show how their insidious incrementalism is working. I expect it from the left, but it's unforgivable when the cowards who are supposed to be on our side aid them.

[philman_36]

Who shoudn't we, as a "moral" Country NOT allow a firearm.?
Which has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the premise with which you started this thread.
Your thread has been hijacked and you're just a startled passenger.

[dinodino]

The AW ban is moronic, because in addition to being flatly unconstitutional, it bans weapons based on cosmetic characteristics.

The reason that so many of the 2A activists are wound up about this, myself included, is that it is yet another infringement of our right to keep and bear arms. Government is headed for total infringement of our rights, bit by bit, and the reason we draw lines in the sand is because we want to try to prevent this from happening. Every small infringement, no matter how seemingly "practical" or innocuous, puts us one step closer to the day when the People no longer have any power.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Avoid cliches like the plague

[Double Tap]

You didn't buy a new AK-47 wannabe with a 40 round magazine. You bought the gun and then bought the mag seperately. If you bought the gun and mag as a single unit, you and the dealer have committed a felony. Can you see the difference?

[SSN558]

The adds for high capacity magazines are everywhere. They are usually accompanied by words to the effect of, "limited supply these items will soon be unavailable." They are still for sale and widely available after ten years, in addition you can also buy rebuild kits for a few bucks just in case.

Your preban rifles are worth a few more bucks, and rebuild kits are readily available. I see used ones for sale all the time.

It would seem that the assault rifle bans had three major impacts.

1. It drove Timothy McVeigh over the edge and led to the deaths of 168 federal workers in Oklahoma City.

2. It galvanized the membership of NRA and other groups swelling their membership to over six million.

3. It caused the Impeached Traitor Rapist to lose the Congress and Senate.

BTW the ten year expiration date was a calculated political ploy to stick a Republican President and Congress with a sticky election year issue. If Dubya and the Congress extend the ban they will lose votes, that is certain. How many votes they lose is up for grabs. Weak Republicans will lose their jobs as a result, and this one litmus test issue could change the balance of power; Democraps planned it that way.

[dinodino]

In high school, we had target shooting, and we used to be able to bring our hunting rifles to school if we were going hunting afterwards. Nobody cared as long as the Principal kept it in his office during school. The antigunners who claim that nothing has changed are either liars or idiots.

[dinodino]

lol

[B Knotts]

I hear ya. Our culture is being steadily feminized and perverted.

[Jhoffa_]

What are you talking about? I've made it clear I'm opposed to this ban.

You made it clear you're talking out of both sides of your face.

Should John Hinkley be allowed to own a firearm? After all, it doesn't affect me because I didn't try to kill the President.

Short of incarceration, how do you propose to stop him? all her has to do is buy one on the black market, rob your house or pick up a newspaper. You haven't given this allot of thought, have you Einstein?

Our laws need to reflect morals.

LOL! Spare the sanctimony..

Our laws need to reflect what's written in the Constitution.

I know, "he can get a gun off the streets" BULL$hit! Not everyone (even convicts) know how, or who to get a gun off the street from.

What, they can't read the news paper or dial the phone?

I bet these innocent babes don't know the first thing about how to get drugs "off the streets" either, do they?

You're a fool.

[Double Tap]

HUH??? You mean in Sept. of 1994, when the whole shooting match was under Democrat control, they knew that in 2004, all would be held by Republicans? Is that seriously what you meant?

[dinodino]

I'm also certain that if Mr. Goldylight inserts that mag into his Chinese AK variant, he will have committed a felony. What do you think of that, goldylight? Think the AW ban has affected you?

Also, as Double Tap pointed out, you may already be a felon if you actually purchased that mag at the same time as your rifle.

[dinodino]

ping for your edification

[Double Tap]

You're a fool.

Yes.

[fourdeuce82d]

Expensive magazines, can't get a new AR with collapsible stock.

[StriperSniper]

way back in Halle Berry's woodshed

Sonds like fun!;-)

[Jhoffa_]

"he" "newspaper"

[William Terrell]

Your problem is that these military weapons aren't available to the public. We may have a problem here.

If, and historical debates bear this out, the main object of the 2nd amendment is to insure citizens a means of resisting tyranny from their own government;

and, if that govcernment has weapons far in advance of those available to the citizens;

and, if over a period of years chilled innovation puts the citizens in the position of having arms compared to government arms as muskets to AR-15s,

Then we would be in truly deep doo-doo vis a vis the original purpose of an armed citizentry, don't you think?

[dinodino]

Yes. We'd be in deep kimchee.