Rigby5
Diamond Member
The last AWB was not the law of the land long enough to have a positive effect.The last federal AWB did not require anyone to turn in their existing guns. You have been jacked up by your propagandists with this bullshit "DERE CUMMIN FER YER GUNZ ZOMG!!!!" horseshit.An AWB does not violate the 2nd Amendment, asshole.2nd amendment asshole.
YES, it most certainly does.
First of all, while no right is without restriction, the Bill of Rights, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 9th and 10th amendments prohibit any federal weapons laws at all.
Then there is the fact the founders wrote the constitution with citizen soldiers in mind. There is not supposed to even be a standing federal military at all, and they wanted all homes to have military grade weapons.
There also is no such thing as an assault weapon, and historically pistols, shotguns, and small rifles have all been assault weapons at different time. The modern definition of an assault weapon is full auto, and there are no full auto weapons available new and without extensive licenses and checks, so any so called assault weapon ban is a hoax intended to band something entirely different.
There are already 30 million or so firearms the proposed bans would impact, and none of those are going to be turned in.
So are you actually going to support an illegal civil war just to accomplish a feel good ban that won't improve a single thing?
Anyone intent on mass murder/suicide, is not going to be deterred in the least by an AWB.
The last Assault Weapons Ban was totally ineffectual and stupid, and everyone bypassed it by turning the pistol grip into a thumb hole stock. No weapons were prevented from sale by the 1993 Clinton AWB.
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There also were almost no ARs in public ownership back then because they were too expensive. So no one cared. Now they have come down in price as being about the least expensive. Now tens of millions of people care a great deal.
There are a shitload of assault weapons already out there. The last AWB did not ban the possession of existing assault weapons. So you could go to a gun show and still find assault rifles to buy.
It will take a long time for existing guns to fall into disuse/disrepair.
No, the last AWB was for over a decade. Bush allowed it to continue.
It had no positive effect because there was no legal basis for it, the courts kept ruling it was stupid and undefined, and that you can not legally pass ex post facto laws.
And no, it was not that you could find pre-ban weapons at gun shows, but that post ban weapons were easily changes with minor cosmetics, to avoid the ban. There is no legal basis for the ban, so it is easy to make any weapons elude the foolish list of restrictions in the ban.
The SKS in the image I posted is completely legal according to all AWBs ever proposed, because it does not have a pistol grip, has not flash suppressor or bayonet lug, etc.
It clearly was manufactured as an assault weapon, but there is no way to ban it unless you simply list it by name, and that would be illegal.