Didn’t the Clinton era Assault Weapons Ban last ten years?
Never put our Fate into the hands of the SCOTUS. They will disappoint you far more than they will protect your God Given Constitutional Rights.
I bought an SKS during that ban - from “bear arms” in Bellevue, WA.
So true. How else could we have gotten to a point where Larry and Harry can pretend to marry, as dictated by SCOTUS?
Oddly, the 10-year sunset on the last AWB was added to get Bob Dole’s swing vote. If he’d voted “no” it never would have happened.
And remember the Clinton era ban didn’t really ban anything of substance, practically was limited to cosmetics. (Yes, “assault pistols” were banned but are rare/impractical. Suppressors could not be added to post-ban guns.) It really wasn’t an “assault weapons ban”, just a chronic annoyance for everyone to get worked up about on both sides.
New ban would have to address “semiautomatic detachable-magazine guns” to mean anything beyond last paltry AWB, and would thus be over-broad and not pass muster of House, Senate, President, _and_ Supreme Court.
Methinks it’s important for our side to stop holding the line and start pushing it back: overturn NFA and 922(o), make opposition expend resources holding their line instead of advancing it. Get some fundamental rulings that make it harder to encroach on AWs.
Exactly. Heller ruling in 2008 didn’t change as much as I expected it to.