You do realize that, once a law gets passed, it is essentially impossible to repeal it.
List the laws that were repealed last session.
We succeeded in effectively repealing the AWB, which in itself is astonishing.
Couple that with the fact that the Republican Revolution of 1994 was a direct result of AWB passage, and I don't see the AWB coming back as long as Bush is in office.
After that, who knows what President Hitlery will do? </sarcasm>
No, it sunset. Big difference. It required the Congress to do NOTHING, something they excel at. A repeal would have required fortitude and purposeful action, in other words it would never have happened.
But it wasn't repealed. If the sunset provision weren't included, we'd still be paying $100 for G20 15 round mags.
Only because it had an expiration date, and thus Congress had to act to renew it. If they had to act to repeal it, repeal would have been very difficult. The real victory was in getting the expiration provision into the law in the first place, back in 1994.
The AWB was not repealed, it was allowed to expire. Big difference.
The AWB was not repealed, it was allowed to expire. Big difference.