Slow down Chuck, if you spin that sh!t any faster you'll need a grease fitting...
Grease fitting? ROTFLMAO... ;-)
That’s just the fact. If you owned a gun that was listed in the AWB bill BEFORE the bill took effect, you could keep it. The ban was on the PURCHASE of the gun, not the OWNERSHIP of the gun.
I’ve never owned a gun, but I almost bought an AK-47 from a friend of mine right before the ban, just in case I decided I needed one later.
Uh, without wanting to defend the AWB (I despise the very concept of gun control - check out my FR homepage, past posts and links if you don't believe that), what Charles said is accurate. The AWB banned the acquisition of certain named models, of firearms, or firearms with a combination of certain named features (no matter the name) manufactured after a certain date in 1994. Ditto for magazines of greater than 10 rounds in capacity. You could get anything manufactured beforehand (remember the huge advertisements for PRE-BANS), if you were willing to pony up between 2 and 10 times the original price of the items (which was, IMHO, the point of the whole exercise).
Please, let's deal with facts as facts. I didn't like the fact of the AWB and I don't like the fact that gun-banning SOBs are in Congress, running for President, in the bureaucracy, in the media, the churches and synogogues, etc., but those are FACTS. Work to change future facts, don't bad-mouth someone who accurately represents facts as they were/are.
That being said, I'm no Romney fan. I MAY still end up voting for him, on the theory that he's not as bad as the rest of those wuckfits running for President.