What are you going to get first

[cool45auto]

I'll second what Mark Tyson said.

 

[jercamp45]

Welll.............

Must say I am getting an AR bug...but the ones I am looking at have a fixed stock and I do not need a bayonet lug(I mean, that's what .45 auto's are for!)...so I'd be happy with a post ban.
But I do like the folding stocks....a SIG 550 would be a very interesting rifle to own!
Maybe HK would come out with a USC using UMP mags and a folding stock with a real pistol grip? That would be fun!
I wonder if it will sunset though....if I recall it was an Executive Order from Daddy Bush(not a Law pushed through the other two governmental bodies) that started it, think Bush Jr gonna just let it slide into oblivion?
I hope so.....but I am not gonna hold my breath! Politicians have a tendency to urinate on your personal campfire....in the name of public safety!!
Jercamp45

 

[Zach S]

Ive had the AR bug for a while, while I can live without a bayonet lug, it would be nice to have a collapsable stock and a threaded barrel, so that the um, verticly challenged (she gets mad if i say shes short) could shoot it without a problem, and I could install my own muzzlebrakes. Not to mention the possibly slight drop in the price of normal capacity mags.

 

[Denny Hansen]

All my pre-ban stuff is running good. Might get an actual flash hider for the wife's AR though.

 

[Lone_Gunman]

I wonder if it will sunset though....if I recall it was an Executive Order from Daddy Bush(not a Law pushed through the other two governmental bodies) that started it

Huh?

The AWB is a law, passed by both houses and signed by Clinton.

Bush banned imports of some weapons by executive order, but it didnt have anything to do with the AWB.

 

[Tamara]

Bush banned imports of some weapons by executive order, but it didnt have anything to do with the AWB.

Yes, actually it did.

The Bush Ban of '89 was an Executive order that allowed the ATF to crack down on imports. It was also proposed to the legislative branch as a model for a law. It took five years and a massacre or two to pass, but it eventually did.

 

[jsalcedo]

You took the words right out of my mouth Tamara.

IIRC when the Bush import restrictions went into effect. National Public Radio touted it as a model for domestic restrictions that were being proposed at the legislative level.

It didn't help King George 41 get re-elected and 43 won't be either if he
effs with us on another AWB.

 

[Lone_Gunman]

I agree that there was a slippery slope effect... my point was that there was no direct connection between GHWB's ban and Congress's AWB.

 

[rayra]

Man, you one-issue voters better take a look at the bigger picture - you want Dean or Kerry or Clark, instead???

 

[Firefighter]

are you trying to tell us that there are other issues ? what will they think of next ?

 

[Tamara]

Lone_Gunman,

I agree that there was a slippery slope effect... my point was that there was no direct connection between GHWB's ban and Congress's AWB.

No, there was no "slippery slope." The AWB was, almost word-for-word, proposed by Bush I and Bill Bennett (and Bill Ruger). It just took a few years to get it through the bowels of Congress.

rayra,

you want Dean or Kerry or Clark, instead???

What? They might ban guns? I'd better vote GOP, 'cause they'll ban guns to stop the other guys from banning guns.

 

[MaterDei]

Back on topic

A nice bottle of bubbly to enjoy with the wife. Then I think I'll go buy a .51 caliber rifle.

Huh?...What's that you say?...We STILL have restrictions on our 2nd Ammendment rights you say?

Well, in that case, I guess I'll go back to pressuring our law makers to restore all of our rights and supporting those organizations that will help in the fight.

:banghead:

 

[Okiecruffler]

A nice Mosin1891

You can't teach an old dog new tricks, but I have to buy something. Don't want to be the only guy without a new gun.

 

[Kamicosmos]

Even if by some bizarre miracle the ban sunsets and isn't simply renewed, or more likely, renewed and made worse (If you don't have an AR, I'd get one now and cuss about the Beltway Sniper(s).)

The only thing that would really make an impact would be the magazine restriction, but I'm not going to see any improvements in my guns for various reasons, and I'm not going to run out and buy a Glock just so I can buy a 15 round mag...sheesh.

All the cool guns were banned from Import, and that law will never go away. And Machine Guns have been hard to get for a long time, and that will just get worse.

In my opinion, I'd rather see some of the Paperwork (and other asinine rules and registration requirements) loosened up a bit rather than getting to have a Bayonette Attachment again. Sure would be nice to be able to go to a gunshow, or see a gun while on vacation, and be able to both Purchase and Keep It right then...

Oh well, back to writting my congress critters to try and at least stem the tide of having fingerprint scanners on my 2 shot only .10 caliber non-transferable air gun....sigh.

 

[duckfoot]

High Cap Mags for everything That can take one and a whole bunch of cheap post bans also

 

[Ed]

Or, what if it sunsets, and then 1 week later due to negotiations and lack of resolve, a new bill is passed. Maybe same old one. How much would factories have been able to make in the one week hole? Would you be able to retrofit your post ban guns in the week and keep them that way? Are you gonna be able to buy that day?

 

[Lone_Gunman]

Tamara, you may be right, but I dont specifically recall GHWB paving the way for the AWB.

Certainly he was no friend of the Second Amendment... Hopefully Jr will think twice about it.

 

[SnWnMe]

Nothing really. I don't miss much

 

[BerettaNut92]

A studio apartment in Arizona.