The 2nd Amendment

**blue** · 11-09-2008, 10:50 PM

AWB=Assualt Weapons Ban.

Clinton's 1984 ban didnt actually ban assualt weapons, it banned semi auto weapons that were based on or resembled actual assualt weapons. It also banned certain features from being added to firearms that where cosmetic in nature.

True assault weapons remained legal and taxed the entire time the ban was in place.

BATF=Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

The BATF targets legal gun owners, misrepresents gun laws and interprets the laws on a day by day case by case basis. Linky.

**jennielynn1970** · 11-09-2008, 10:52 PM

Cool, thanks!

**Lady's Human** · 11-09-2008, 11:10 PM

Blue, you missed the year.....1994.

To elaborate on the AWB, just compare one of Blue's weapons (AK-47 semi-automatic clone) with one of the weapons I used to have:

Blue's AK-47 semi auto clone......pistol grip stock (bad), provisions for mounting a bayonet (bad) Flash supressor (bad) and the possibility of using high capacity magazines (bad)

But, appearances aside, it still fires a relatively low powered cartridge, and is useful from a military standpoint mainly because they can take a beating and still fire. The Soviet military no longer uses the weapon, they've moved on to better weapons.

Compared with a hunting rifle I used to have, a Browning BAR......

No appearance issues, looks like a normal hunting rifle, which it is, and fires a much higher powered cartridge than blue's AK.....blue's AK under the AWB=bad, my hunting rifle is perfectly legal.

Pure legislative feel good BS, accomplished nothing, but looked good to the constituents.

**Catlady711** · 11-09-2008, 11:18 PM

I personally have never liked guns, I don't even like to look at them, however I tend to agree with my husband, who is (much to my dismay) a gun collector...

'guns don't kill people....people kill people'

It makes sense, people were killing people long before guns were invented, and would continue to do so, just with different means, even if every gun on the entire planet was melted down.

**blue** · 11-09-2008, 11:29 PM

Thanks for the catch on the year LH, now I dont need to edit the post.

All 3 of my SAR1's were bought during the AWB, so none of them have the bayonet lug, or any sort of muzzle attatchment as the barrels arent threaded (yet). My rifles where legislated purely based on appearance.

Legal full auto/3 round burst assualt weapons were unaffected by the ban. Illegal full auto/3 round bust assualt rifles were also unaffected by the ban.