Justin
Moderator Emeritus
Ok, the ban passed in 1994 has caused us to come up with a system to differentiate between rifles made before the ban, and after the ban. Hence "That AR15 is a pre-ban with the bayonet lug." or "My AR15 cost $300 less because it's a post-ban."
But if the new ban passes, what will we call our (currently) post-ban rifles? After all, the new proposed extension outlaws nearly every single incarnation of the many popular rifles.
Will we have to shift from calling our current rifles post-bans and start calling them pre-bans?
What then becomes of all the rifles with bayonet lugs? Do those become pre-pre-bans? Nothing more than a reminder of the golden age of gun ownership when no one cared how ugly a rifle was?
But differentiating between post-bans, pre-bans, and pre-pre-bans is just an exercise in piling too many syllables and hyphens into a term.
Ok, I've got it, let's try this:
Why don't we all call and get in touch with not only our Senators and Representatives, but also the speaker of the house, and the majority leader and let them know what we think.
Let's kill this thing before it has a chance to see daylight, and we'll never have to worry about dreaming up new terms to differentiate between the firearms that the .gov want us to have and the ones that they don't.
But if the new ban passes, what will we call our (currently) post-ban rifles? After all, the new proposed extension outlaws nearly every single incarnation of the many popular rifles.
Will we have to shift from calling our current rifles post-bans and start calling them pre-bans?
What then becomes of all the rifles with bayonet lugs? Do those become pre-pre-bans? Nothing more than a reminder of the golden age of gun ownership when no one cared how ugly a rifle was?
But differentiating between post-bans, pre-bans, and pre-pre-bans is just an exercise in piling too many syllables and hyphens into a term.
Ok, I've got it, let's try this:
Why don't we all call and get in touch with not only our Senators and Representatives, but also the speaker of the house, and the majority leader and let them know what we think.
Let's kill this thing before it has a chance to see daylight, and we'll never have to worry about dreaming up new terms to differentiate between the firearms that the .gov want us to have and the ones that they don't.
