Has the AWB fight been more satisfying than the result to you?

[Tharg]

Can't say i participated in the fight... in 1994 i was still in the military - and was not allowed to own a gun that was not locked up in the armoury (Navy) which i felt was pretty damn useless to own one then. (kind of like owning a gun that has to stay locked up or locked trigger all the time- pretty damn useless)

in 1998 i bought my first.... haven't stopped buying since then.

Can't wait to buy a folder/tele for my mini-14... if only cause i can and it looks cool. Course - i've been wanting to have a bull barrel and it accurized too - but hey... money is not falling off of tree's of late =(

wouldn't mind some factory new 30/20 rnders to replace my crap POS 30rnd'rs i got now.... that or someone to tell me how to keep em from jammin all the time. (the 5 rnd from ruger works fine every time)

tired of the fact that i don't find any pre-ban mags for my HK USP compact .40... (did it come out after 94?) and would DEFINITELY like 3 more rounds as some have said are avail. to LEO's only current.....

TIRED of being made a criminal cause i like my guns... and NOT because of some crime i commited....(or in this as in man - DIDN'T commit)

J/Tharg!

 

[hillbilly]

I for one have hated the AWB fight over the last 10 years.

It was an essentially useless, meaningless law that had only symbolic value, but was extraordinarily important precisely because of its symbolism.

It became sort of like the siege of Stalingrad, in a way.

Stalingrad became an important battle only because the city had Stalin's name on it, and Hitler wanted to take the city that bore Stalin's name. So, thousands and thousands died real deaths in a symbolic battle.

Now, thank goodness, we did not have hundreds of thousands of casualties over this stupid AWB, but it became a long, drawn-out, bitter fight over mostly symbolism.

But symbolism is very important.

It was awful and stupid and senseless, and we've had to spend lots of time, energy, money fighting a stupid, senseless law.

I can't believe it, Boats, that you don't own any handguns that might take a magazine of more than 10 rounds. You don't even have a classic Browning Hi-Power?

If you don't own the last design of John Moses Browning, maybe it's high time you did and stocked up on some new, 13-round magazines?

How about a Ruger 10-22 with some 50 round drum mags?

One thing that irritates the crap out of me is to get into a groove with my Ruger 10-22, and establish a rythmn, and really start knocking my targets over, and then run out of ammo on shot number 10.

Come Sept. 14, I plan on owning some quality drum mags for my Ruger 10-22, maybe even one of those 100 round mags. My Zen target shooting groove will get considerably longer than just 10 rounds.

I have an AR and a FAL that need flash hiders and a bunch of new mags.

I plan on replacing the AK clone that was stolen from me in 2000.

I need a whole truckload of new M-14 magazines.

While I might purchase only one actual gun after the AWB, there is a ton of magazines and accessories I plan on getting.

And while I will be glad to get those mags and accessories, I will be torked off that we've had to spend so much time and energy and effort to be able to buy those magazines again.

hillbilly

 

[Boats]

I can't believe it, Boats, that you don't own any handguns that might take a magazine of more than 10 rounds. You don't even have a classic Browning Hi-Power?

8+1 is my highest capacity handgun, and even then my personal Excalibur is a 4" Ruger GP-100 that I can fire with uncanny accuracy and which always works with no excuses, so I am actually relying on six for sure most of my life these days. I used to have several 9mms, but as I said, I got over that desire a long time ago.