Since the ban's signing and its enforcement, I've been able to buy 20, 30, 40, 50, and 75 round mags, an AK47, a couple of SKS's, shotguns, a Tech 9 by intratech (before Harris and Kleibol had one!), large cap mags for anything, even a 30 rounder for my Browning Hi-Power 9mm (LOL Don't know why!). I've purchased weapons made in China, Serbia, Russia, and Romania.
I'm not for any weapons ban at all, and I'm not a total one issue Republican. I have a few "litmis test" of my own. Abortion, 2nd Amedment, Taxes. I just fail to see how this weapons ban has stopped someone from buying and owning any firearm they could before the ban. Again, with the one exception of the restraining orders floating around out there.
Maybe if I read stories from freepers that had problems or their rights violated I could understand better the illegal law's infringement.
My story doesn't reflect a major problem.
The bill's renewel needs to be defeated in the Senate, I agree, but to allow the demoncraps to get re-elected or elected over a law that doesn't affect our rights (even though the gun grappers thought it would) is really crazy.
Thanks for replying....
It SHOULD piss you off.Are people just going to sit back & let someone dictate what you can read & shoot with? To WHAT END? Where will it stop???Just who ARE these BAN FREAKS, hmm?
This is nothing more than a feel good law"</> period.
I've never had any desire to buy any surplus Soviet Bloc junk and have no need for a bayonet mount.
Take it from the standpoint that I actually believe the "equal justice" clause of the constitution. That means that if a police officer's or a politician's life is of enough value to be protected by fully automatic weapons, so is mine, yours or anyone elses. They are no more entitled to the added protection a flash suppressor gives than we are. They are not better than us, they're not "special" people, and they're not Lord's or royalty.
So for a person like me that feels the citizen should allowed to have the same personal arms as any police officer, the AWB is a terrible step in the wrong direction. We need to be un-restricting "black gun" ownership, not placing more restrictions on them.
Another reason is because the law asinine. I had a guy approach me on the range once and offer me 30 round clips at a good price. I didn't dare buy them because I couldn't verify when the effen things were manufactured. God forbid I bought one that was made one day after the ban, I could go to jail for a long time and lose my rights, when the stupid thing is made exactly like the one that was made one day before the ban.
After a while the pre-ban mags are going to start getting too old to use, which is exactly what the gun grabbers want. It's not just about me, it's about my children.
It also affects me personally because this is my country, and I take it personally. It's bad enough having leftists eroding our rights bit by bit, year after year until one day we'll have nothing left. It's unforgivable when we have those who pretend to be on "our" side joining them to protect their own worthless, turncoat, yellow skin.
That's how the AWB has "affected" me.
A well armed citizenry is free to over throw a tyranical goverment, even this one if the need should arise. As has been seen in Iraq, that is hard to do with dad's old deer rifle. That is point one and one of the main points recorded in the Declaration of Independence and in the writing of the framers of the Constitution.
Point two is that once the government inserts itself into any area of the "all other rights are retained by the people", it becomes abusive and intrusive. It is never a good idea, as history has proven time and again, for the people to be made to register their arms. The U.N. and it's gun grabbing agenda has far too much influence in the USofA and it's sovereign people.
When the snipers were on the loose in D.C. it became clear that D.C. does not destroy it's records within 24 hours as required, so already they abuse the law while holding us to laws. I hope this clears it up for you.
Oh, they squirm and spit about phantom "injury" of various kinds, but that brass-tacks, bottom-line, striaght-up answer is "No, the assault weapons ban has not affected my ability to buy whatever the hell I want whenever the hell I want."
I don't have a gun in the house right now (I own some, they are in storage at my parents. I hate to leave them here alone in case of theft) I haven't shot a gun in years and I will surely never, ever purchase an "Assault weapon" of any type.
But, yes.. It's affected me. It's one more Unconstitutional law that doesn't have a "Jhoffa_ Exemption" It affects everyone.
Your post is offensive to me. I think it's a foolish thing to ask.
To take what you wrote at face value, perhaps I should ask you why people who don't own guns should be concerned about the Second Amendment at all. I mean, since it obviously doesn't "affect them" they shouldn't worry about it, right?
Why should Gentiles oppose a law that discriminates against Jews, since it doesn't "affect them"
Why should adults oppose laws against abortion when they obviously aren't "affected"
Disgusting..
Feinstein and Schumer Welcome President Bush's Support of Assault Weapons Ban Reauthorization
Senators Feinstein and Schumer, authors of the original assault weapons legislation in the Senate and House of Representatives, will introduce legislation to reauthorize the ban shortly after Congress returns from recess. The legislation would:
Reauthorize the prohibition on manufacture, transfer, and possession military-style assault weapons, while protecting hunting rifles and other firearms.
Close the clip-importation loophole, which prohibits the sale of domestically produced high-capacity ammunition magazines, but allows foreign companies to continue to bring them into the country by the millions.
Preserve the right of police officers and other law enforcement officials to use and obtain newly manufactured semi-automatic assault weapons.
I can no longer get a real flash suppressor, instead they put on muzzle brakes that make the gun louder than it needs to be, and more obnoxious to those around you at the range. Lets not forget the folding or collapsable stocks that are oh so deadly, and oh so illegal. God only knows how many lives that has saved.
A pre-ban AR or AK is now worth twice as much as a new gun. See how that supply and demand thing works? Are you getting the picture? See, I have done nothing wrong, broken no laws, threaten no person. And yet I am penalized if I want to have a gun with a flash suppressor and bayonet lug on it.
You mentioned SKS's. They now cost twice as much as they did before the ban.
So what is your point, if any? Lets not forget, we are talking about the Bill of Rights.