***and an outright ban on firearm accessories.***
Remember when the 1968 Gun Control Act was passed? One of the laws was against the import of foreign military material.
One of the first to get arrested was an antique gun dealer in Tulsa who “violated” the law by importing....musket flints.
Yeah. We just arrived back stateside with Berettas we had purchased at the NATO exchange after it passed. Leave the ship? Uh, no. Nobody was sure what all the ramifications to the new law were so I didn’t get mine for several months after I reported to a new duty station.