Aggrvaiting article out of NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/opinion/assault-rifle-ban.html
Read I'd you want to, but its "blah blah blah gun owners are racist zealots blah blah no one needs an "assult weapon" blah blah blah 2A is bad for America.
Ok, but here's the deal. High capacity, intermediate caliber, semiautomatic rifles were not widely sought after until the government decided to ban them in 1994. Sure, you certainly had Ar15s Ak47s SKS...and horror of horrors...the M1 Carbine, what with its bayonet lug and 30 round magazines, which incidentally, were US government surplus, weapons that had been used in war(s)....literally weapons of war... sold to the US citizens...... by the government. But I digress. But please correct me if I'm wrong, but the AR15 didn't have nearly the cache it had by 2005 prior to the 94 ban.
That's what I'd like to know, how many of us here owned an AR, or AK or their variants prior to '94, and I mean prior to knowing the ban was coming. I remember my dad buying 2 SKS's right before the ban took effect. But prior to that, they weren't really high on the priority list.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/opinion/assault-rifle-ban.html
Read I'd you want to, but its "blah blah blah gun owners are racist zealots blah blah no one needs an "assult weapon" blah blah blah 2A is bad for America.
Ok, but here's the deal. High capacity, intermediate caliber, semiautomatic rifles were not widely sought after until the government decided to ban them in 1994. Sure, you certainly had Ar15s Ak47s SKS...and horror of horrors...the M1 Carbine, what with its bayonet lug and 30 round magazines, which incidentally, were US government surplus, weapons that had been used in war(s)....literally weapons of war... sold to the US citizens...... by the government. But I digress. But please correct me if I'm wrong, but the AR15 didn't have nearly the cache it had by 2005 prior to the 94 ban.
That's what I'd like to know, how many of us here owned an AR, or AK or their variants prior to '94, and I mean prior to knowing the ban was coming. I remember my dad buying 2 SKS's right before the ban took effect. But prior to that, they weren't really high on the priority list.