I was thinking myself a strange case as August begins the countdown to the death of the AWB. I am increasingly ambivalent about actually buying anything covered by the AWB.
It is easily researched here that I fought for the death of that excremental legislation as much as any non-professional. The nail-biting and phone calls to DC back in March were intense, and the vigil is maintained even today. However, I inevitably found myself drawing up the obligatory "wish list" for September 14, 2004. I came up with a few things, but then, as they are prone to do, a major appliance broke, necessitating a revisitation of my desires for an AK, and AR, and a wondernine as a refrigerator bit into the minor fortune I had begun amassing for THE DAY. One had to go. I surprised myself however.
Upon revisitation I decided I didn't actually want any of the listed things. The AWB came about when I had pretty much self-mended out of my Iwannacoolgun viral infection. My list now looks like this: Get a snubbie .357 and a lever gun--get better sights on both.
The AWB has seemingly done nothing to me. Yeah its blasphemy, but I wasn't interested anymore back in 1994 about buying the things covered by the AWB until I had antis telling me I couldn't have them. Don't get me wrong, I hated the concept of the AWB and helped fight it on the front end, but I also knew it wasn't really going to put me out since my tastes had evolved from where they were in my early 20s. Now that it looks like the antis can't tell me what semi-autos I can or can't own anymore (next target the 89 EO) I don't care if I actually own any, only that I have the option.
The ridiculousness of using Klinton mags or not having folding stocks and other accessories only motivated me to get even more into the "low caps" I had already begun collecting by 1994. I now have low-cap 1911s, shotguns, revolvers, and rifles. With the Government Model, an Ithaca, a Garand, and a GP-100, various bolt rifles, and others, I have over the years transformed myself from someone who liked to spray around and just make noise as often as actually hit anything to, dare I say, a disciplined shooter who is a pretty decent shot at reasonable distances. I have become a .45ACP and .357 Mag junkie. When one only has 5, 6, 7, 8, or 10 rounds on tap before the reload, it tends to concentrate the mind. I also liked getting away from paying as much for spare mags as I had in a handgun, or using recycled GI or military contract garbage on rifles.
I now find that I don't want to go back, even if the mags are brand spanking new. I guess I won't be buying any post-post ban toys after all just because they suddenly are available again. I am through with that phase of my life. I am buying what I have come to love, what I am accurate with, and what intrigues me. I am no longer "into" something that is high (normal) capacity just because I helped win a long fight with the antis. The journey was more rewarding than the destination for me. Was it for anyone else?
PS: I will still fight the antis, but the rest of you all can prop up the metric end of the market.
It is easily researched here that I fought for the death of that excremental legislation as much as any non-professional. The nail-biting and phone calls to DC back in March were intense, and the vigil is maintained even today. However, I inevitably found myself drawing up the obligatory "wish list" for September 14, 2004. I came up with a few things, but then, as they are prone to do, a major appliance broke, necessitating a revisitation of my desires for an AK, and AR, and a wondernine as a refrigerator bit into the minor fortune I had begun amassing for THE DAY. One had to go. I surprised myself however.
Upon revisitation I decided I didn't actually want any of the listed things. The AWB came about when I had pretty much self-mended out of my Iwannacoolgun viral infection. My list now looks like this: Get a snubbie .357 and a lever gun--get better sights on both.
The AWB has seemingly done nothing to me. Yeah its blasphemy, but I wasn't interested anymore back in 1994 about buying the things covered by the AWB until I had antis telling me I couldn't have them. Don't get me wrong, I hated the concept of the AWB and helped fight it on the front end, but I also knew it wasn't really going to put me out since my tastes had evolved from where they were in my early 20s. Now that it looks like the antis can't tell me what semi-autos I can or can't own anymore (next target the 89 EO) I don't care if I actually own any, only that I have the option.
The ridiculousness of using Klinton mags or not having folding stocks and other accessories only motivated me to get even more into the "low caps" I had already begun collecting by 1994. I now have low-cap 1911s, shotguns, revolvers, and rifles. With the Government Model, an Ithaca, a Garand, and a GP-100, various bolt rifles, and others, I have over the years transformed myself from someone who liked to spray around and just make noise as often as actually hit anything to, dare I say, a disciplined shooter who is a pretty decent shot at reasonable distances. I have become a .45ACP and .357 Mag junkie. When one only has 5, 6, 7, 8, or 10 rounds on tap before the reload, it tends to concentrate the mind. I also liked getting away from paying as much for spare mags as I had in a handgun, or using recycled GI or military contract garbage on rifles.
I now find that I don't want to go back, even if the mags are brand spanking new. I guess I won't be buying any post-post ban toys after all just because they suddenly are available again. I am through with that phase of my life. I am buying what I have come to love, what I am accurate with, and what intrigues me. I am no longer "into" something that is high (normal) capacity just because I helped win a long fight with the antis. The journey was more rewarding than the destination for me. Was it for anyone else?
PS: I will still fight the antis, but the rest of you all can prop up the metric end of the market.
