If congress should decide on another AWB, what would the most likely scenarios be? It’s such a complicated law to implement. I was living in NYC during the last ban (currently a desert rat in Tucson, AZ) and remember how just defining an assault weapon was beyond our legislative competency since it could easily effect so many guns and too many law abiding Americans. It was a joke! It came down to bayonet lugs and flash suppressors, and to some degree magazine capacity. What new ridiculous piece of legislation would they craft that would have next to zero impact on crime. Issues to noodle around are:
Assault Weapon Definition
Ban civilian production and distribution by manufacturers
Ban sale and transfer from merchant to civilian and between private parties-grandfather existing ownership without the ability to transfer
Declare Assault weapons illegal and coordinate the turning in of guns-would there be compensation for their value?
Confiscate weapons where there is information to do so
Yeah, I think there is a thread stickied at the very top of this forum called “Official Obama/Federal Gun Control/Federal AWB Discussion Thread” that you should check out.
FWIW:
I wouldn’t waste time on any “AWB Scenerio’s”.
Just forget about it --not even on the radar screen.
As in a total waste of electrons-- like most of the posts in the thread that Gentoo mentioned.
If you want to scare yourself, just consider all the anti-gun measures Obama could take through executive order. these will likely affect imports of guns, parts, and ammo. Administrative crack-downs on licensees, like Clinton did with zoning checks on license applicants. More compliance inspections, more “forward tracing,” and any number of bureaucratic tactics could be used to make more and more FFLs decide it’s not worth the hassle. There are fewer than half the number of FFLs there were in 1993.
Somebody needs to read a little before they post. There is a long dedicated Federal Gun Control/ AWB thread here already. I’m sure that someone will be along shortly to migrate this or lock it down.
I don’t know, I was just saying to a friend, you know what we really need? A 1,426th thread about “an AWB might be coming!”
I got an email just yesterday from a guy warning me that last year my state and 17 others may/might have legislated ammunition serialization, recommending that I go out and buy as much ammo as possible right away before that happens(-ed). And we wonder why BCGs are impossible to find and ammo has become as valuable as platinum.
the sky is NOT falling. i wish people would stop running around saying it is.
i’d like to be able to get back to shooting a couple hundred rounds a week…
(on the plus side, once all the panic buyers run out of money and the primer manufacturers get caught back up, there should be a buttload of ammo and not much demand, so, hopefully prices will come waaaaaayyy down…one can at least hope…)
Well with some of these assholes on the site that have 10k of large and small rifle primers each bitching about how they cant buy any… It will be a while… I collect guns, but I dont hoard ammo… I do have a little ammo, but less than 400 rounds of each caliber… And that is mainly for my EBR and pistols. I wish the doomsday predictors will go broke soon. I need to find some affordable .223 ammo.
When you are stashing over 10k primers of large and small primers EACH, and trying to buy more as fast as you can, all you are doing is panic buying. Everyone needs to chill out and let the market catch back up. All I am saying is that everybody needs to quit panic buying. IF you shoot that much, then by all means shoot it and order it. The individuals in the thread were talking about how they were hoarding, and bragging about it. I cant buy shit worth of ammo cause everyone is all panic buying. Look at the backorder times on primers and powder!I am only calling someone an asshole if they are panic buying and hoarding all their ammo and/or panic buying and hoarding reloading components.
I’m an asshole, but its not because I’ve been steadily purchasing more ammo than I shoot for a few years and replacing the stock I practice with fairly quickly.