Advice Nine Months before the AWB sunsets....

[Jack19]

with no guarantee that it will not be replaced with something worse.

I have a few semi-rifles with 12-16 mags each. Generally, I think this is a decent quantity for day-to-day carry and general shooting as springs are readily available for the mags.

Here's my dilemma. I've gotten ahold of a couple hundred bucks due to the sudden and unexpected largess of my employeer this Christmas season.

I've been wanting a .22 rifle (currently own no .22s), specifically, a Ruger 10/22. But, I have also been thinking that adding magazines for the weapons I already have would be a good idea as, well, what I've got may be all I can ever get depending on what our self appointed betters in Congress do to us later this year.

Any advice?

 

[aquapong]

As long as gunowners don't sit on their hands and actually write/call/fax their reps, the ban will sunset on schedule. Go buy a different .22 rifle though. Ruger has no plans to make standard capacity mags available to civilians even when the ban sunsets. They were right up there with S&W as far as companies selling out to the antis and now they've had their chance to change their ways. Apparently they aren't going to, so I hope they go belly up. But gunowners are quite eager to trade away their principles for $40 rebates that they keep offering, so people keep buying them.

 

[oldfart]

I believe the AWB will sunset. I also believe we gunowners will faithfully flock to the polls and re-elect Bush.

I am not completely convinced that-- once the election has passed-- the new AWB bill, which is languishing in Congress right now-- won't suddenly be revived and ramrodded through the lame-duck session and signed by the Prez.

I definitely do not believe that any politician, regardless of party, is even remotely concerned about our freedom or their oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America."

If you have a chance to buy magazines, guns, grenades or nukes, get all you can, while you can. Be prepared to either use 'em or hide 'em until you do need to use 'em.

 

[Longbow]

AWB sunset..

Any advice?

Don't hold your breath!

I'm all for it to go away, but the prez said he supports it, so more likely they'll retain it or inact a new similar (or more hideous) law.
Get what you can now!

 

[No4Mk1*]

Buy mags that will not drop in price if the ban goes away. FAL, G3, AK, M1Carbine. The current cost of those mags is less than the $20 price that new production would cost anyways, so you won't be making a bad investment- ban or no ban. Mags like M16, M14, & $30 handgun mags will be a little cheaper, but not much so you stand to lose some money if the ban sunsets, but not too much. Mags that are currently over $60 are a bad investment because they will only cost $20 or so when the ban sunsets. Only buy expensive mags if you really want that gun and want guaranteed mags after Sept '04.

Buying mags that are being imported now will increase the quantity in circulation after ban renewal. If it is renewed.

 

[Hkmp5sd]

Many of the current proposed AWB replacements have a retro-active clause with the intent of getting anything that may become legal in the period between the end of the current ban and then effective date of a new ban. So running out and buying post '94 manufactered hi-cap magazines immediately after the ban sunsets is still a gamble.

They are also trying to close the loophole they missed in '94 and ban the importation of all >10 round magazines, regardless of the date of manufacture. If this passes, the cost of all magazines will increase because we now have a fixed number of hi-caps. Once they are gone, there will be no more available.