Yup. We got back from overseas not long after rfk had been killed. Some of us had purchased pistols while in Italy that had been kept in the armory. We were denied them when getting transferred to new duty stations until the assclowns in d.c. enacted new legislation. Eventually got them returned to us. What BS that was. My first taste of infringement.
My first taste was while living in New Jersey. I used to regularly go to gun shows in Pennsylvania with some friends, and buy many normal capacity magazines. Every single time we were on the way back and passed over the state border, I realized how unfree we really were, since we were technically multiple felons just by the mere act of crossing over an artificial line.
I fondly remember leaving New Jersey on the way to Texas. When we hit the “Welcome to Delaware” sign, I turned to my wife and told her that she would no longer have to worry about bailing me out of jail. She looked at me with very wide eyes and an open mouth, and I explained New Jersey’s magazine ban to her. She asked me how many I had, and I told her that it was about 200 years’ worth in state prison. She turned as white as a sheet, and said nothing for about 30 seconds. She then asked if they had laws like that in Texas. I told her that they didn’t, as Texas was in America. Unfortunately, in the intervening 18 or so years, nothing has changed. I am hopeful that sometime in the next few years, after Ginsberg is replaced with a Justice who can actually read the Constitution, that there may be a case that liberates over 100 million of our fellow citizens who are living in fascist States.