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Those are all good choices. I would add a Yugo Mauser in 8MM because the rifles and the ammo is dirt cheap. The rifles are mint and under 200. I'm lacking a good 1000 yard rifle but I don't have an easy place to shoot it anyway.

There isn't anything going on about the AWB except the plea to keep writing letters to the Republicans. The hotheads are yelling about not voting for Bush if he signs it. If they were so politically astute before, why didn't they know he said that before the last election? I would rather they say what they intent to do so it doesn't reach his desk rather than what they won't do.

The manufacturers are silent about the issue. I can't see them adding bayonet lugs after the thing sunsets. It sounds sort of silly. Unless someone wants a direct copy of a Service Rifle.

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The heck with the lugs (although, what's wrong with wanting a copy of your country's service rifle?), what I want to go away are those butt-ugly thumbhole stocks, non-flash-supressed barrels, and reduced-cap magazines.

All of the above are outright nonsense, reflecting only the unmitigated ignorance of those who wrote and promoted the foolish law.