Assault Weapon Ban Countdown (celebrate here)

[RogueIsland]

14 Hours, 42 minutes to go!

[cowboyway]

Let freedom ring......with a resounding hit from a well placed round exiting a full featured assault weapon.

http://www.lesbaer.com/ar223.html

[Pelayo]

Finally, I will be able to go out and rob a bank and randomly shoot people. I been waiting for this for years.

Funny, plenty of people get killed by criminals with assault weapons all the time in Detroit, where I spend quit a bit of time during the week; and yet apparently it only becomes a problem if I, a 'non-criminal' can own one.

[RogueIsland]

Man, I wish I could afford one of those Baers. I'll get a 1911 from him first, though. Damn, than man makes some good looking guns.

[Casloy]

And of course, that is the huge fallacy in the liberal mind. A: that assault weapons (whatever that is) in the hands of law abiding citizens is a threat. B: that if you don't allow the sale of assault weapons criminals will sit at home and find other things to do besides commit crimes with guns.

[Bell407Pilot]

Saxet Gun Show - Austin, TX

Sep. 18th and 19th.

[RogueIsland]

and yet apparently it only becomes a problem if I, a 'non-criminal' can own one.

My guess is that it has somethign to do with the predicted "flooding effect" upon the streets. I've already surrounded my house with sandbags to keep the flood of ARs and AKs at bay. I predict it will be like a salmon spawning run -- I'll just hang a net out in the street and harvest a few hundred rifles tomorrow.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I didn't have quite the faith in Congess that you did.

If Bush had said one word about the AWB renewal, positive or negative, the MSM would have been all over him like a swarm of hornets and the renewal would have risen from the dead.

Ignoring it was the right thing to do. The President has nothing to do with drafting legislation, he just signs it.

Bush did his job, and the Republicans in Congress did theirs.

Maybe you will start having more faith once Bush makes a couple or three USSC appointments and promotes Clarence Thomas to Chief Justice.

[Straight Vermonter]

...now if only I did'nt live in G-damned California...

Living in Vermont I so rarely get to say this but Haa-haa!

VT Constitution
Article 16th. Right to bear arms; standing armies; military power subordinate to civil

That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the State - and as standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military should be kept under strict subordination to and governed by the civil power.

[patton]

Gill netting is illegal, unless you are a native american. ;)

[TC Rider]

I won't celebrate till Midnight on Monday.

[Shooter 2.5]

I hope all the naysayers will now support the President and vote a straight Republican Ticket. If we ban the dem party, we won't have gun control.

[Ichneumon]

It would be appreciated if someone with sound legal expertise could post a learned item about the legal status of those firearms produced during the past ten dark years. Will they continue to have some sort of special status that would prevent the installation of bayonet lugs, flash hiders, pistol grips, collapsible stocks, etc.? Or will it be as if the AWB never existed?

It will be as if it never existed.

Even more fun, it will now be legal to own magazines stamped "law enforcement use only". :-)

[demlosers]

I'd like to tell many of you I told you so...I told you so.

:-)

[greasepaint]

This is good news.
You never know when you will be
ordered to attack with fixed bayonets.

[Ichneumon]

Gill netting is illegal, unless you are a native american.

I was born here, so by gosh, I *am* a native American...

[islander-11]

The People's Republik of Mass. still fails to recognize the Constitution... Thanks to our lame Dim-o-crap lawmakers, the ban will live on. GRRRRRRRR!!!!

[cowboyway]

"Will they continue to have some sort of special status that would prevent the installation of bayonet lugs, flash hiders, pistol grips, collapsible stocks, etc.?"

There never were laws preventing the installation of those components as well as others. The law applied to the manufacturing and retail distribution. Once in the hands of a private owner, the owner could modify his weapon with a wide choice of legal after-market products. The link below is just one of hundreds of sites that specialize in custom modifications.

http://www.floridagunworks.com/p-026.html

[RogueIsland]

I hope all the naysayers will now support the President and vote a straight Republican Ticket.

There are still some holdouts from what I've seen on other boards. I don't think there has been a single piece of federal anti-gun legislation passed since W came into office (correct me if I'm mistaken), but for some that isn't enough.

I'll admit I groused about the AWB thing witht the "if it gets to my desk" comment because I thought it was giving DiFi and company some traction they shouldn't have, but there never was any way that Kerry would get my vote over Bush. Like I said previously, this is one time when I am extremely happy and proud to say, "I was wrong."

[patton]

Well, I was born within the contiguious United States, but not in a state.

So I don't know what rules apply to me.

[SirLurkedalot]

My only consolation is that i'll be in Nevada around this time next year. (Ouch, BTW. LOL) I managed to get a decent collection started pre-93 (Roberti-Roos AWB in Cali) Molon Labe!