If there's NEVER another AWB...

[Prion]

I only buy guns I plan to own forever. I bought a couple on my list a bit sooner in case of a ban. Low capacity, unlikely to be banned guns are now at the bottom of the list but nothing was added to the list. I like EBR's, actually I like them all. One of each please.

 

[Ben Shepherd]

I NEVER sell guns without good reason. Used to be able say NEVER, period. Moneywise, as of late the recent divorce has proven to be said good reason.
In my younger days, I sold a few that I shot rarely. Found out I regretted each and every one I did sell. So, up until the divorce I sold nary a one in the last 15 years.

The key though- I've been smart/lucky enough that I've not had to sell my "only" this, that or the other. If it get's to that point, I'll live on ramen noodles and cracked wheat first.

 

[tradja]

It's not a "cold, dead fingers" thing in this case, it's just that I don't have a lot of spares and they are among my favorites to shoot and train with.

 

[KBintheSLC]

If the threat of AWB disapeared would you sell off your Evil guns?

No... never.
My ownership of this type of weapon has nothing to do with the threat of losing that right. I own a battle rifle because it is a tool used to defend my freedom, and as long as I am alive, I will defend my freedom.

BTW... the "threat" will never really go away. Defending our rights is like weeding a garden... The work is never really finished.

 

[Zundfolge]

Of four American Presidential assassinations by firearm and five known attempted Presidential assassinations by firearm, none yet have involved a semi-automatic firearm of any sort.

Squeaky Fromme came at Pres Ford with a half loaded (and no round chambered) 1911.

Giuseppe Zangara shot at FDR with at .32ACP

Oscar Collazo used a P-38 and his partner Griselio Torresola had a Luger when they attempted to kill Harry Truman.

Francisco Duran shot at the white house with an SKS while Clinton lived there.


Keep in mind however that most of these folk were either felons or foreign nationals that had no legal right to be carrying a gun (and the closest thing to an "assault weapon" was Duran's SKS ... and he was already a felon).


At any rate, I was just curious to see how many folk here primarily bought so-called assault weapons in order to have them should a ban go into effect vs how many folk bought them just because they liked them.

 

[Hawk]

If the threat of AWB disapeared would you sell off your Evil guns?

I doubt anyone would buy them - I ruined 'em.

There's a Rock River varmint with huge stainless barrel and space cadet telescope - probably weighs 15 pounds and stopped looking evil shortly after the moon scope went on.

Then there's the BM Dissipater upper I bought as a "donation" when BM was getting sued after those guys went nuts on the D.C. beltway - I stuck it on a Rock River lower. It has the old-fashioned handle and is bereft of picante rails and places for spot lights, NV gear and sat phones. An EOTech or ACOG would look like a cowboy riding a pigeon perched on the carry handle so it's best I not go down that road. It's very much like the original EBR which is far less tac-tickle than most current EBRs.

And they were both Clinton administration approved with solid stocks and no place to put my bayonets.

Not very EBR anymore.

I put a Choate stock on the MAK-90 so even that thing looks sort of PC.

 

[MagnumDweeb]

Absolutely not. I've decided everything I buy, I buy for life. The fiancee is cool with that. We've come to an understanding that while I won't spend obscene amounts of money on guns and ammo (meaning what I get as an NRA instructor, and extra-fiscal day trading[an account separate from long term savings]) I can buy what I want. When I told her I want, when we get our first house, buy ten Mosin Nagant 91/30s and 8k of ammo for them she went "cool, for our kids right", and I replied "and for our grandkids, cause one day there won't be anymore of them left at cheap prices. Plus I just finished my second AK build and she knows that other than the surplus stuff most of my buying is done unless they are kit builds I enjoy. While I've drained my extra-expendable income stocking up, I've decided to go ahead and save up to tackle a DP28 rebuild, and a PPSH 43 (my Uncle just finished one and lives right near by).

The day I have too much is the day I can't park my cars in the garage, fit any more guns safes(I already own three) in my rec room(I will one day have), and there are no more regulations regarding firearms and the 2nd Amendment is well patronized by every American.

 

[Kind of Blued]

I'd try to keep things going in the right direction. Assuming that worked out, I'd sell my ARs and AKs once I could replace them with select-fire versions.

 

[Duke of Doubt]

Zundfolge: "Squeaky Fromme came at Pres Ford with a half loaded (and no round chambered) 1911."

Overlooked Squeaky; didn't think she got off a shot.

Giuseppe Zangara shot at FDR with at .32ACP

Counted that as an Anton Cermak assassination, rather than as an FDR attempt. But many scholars agree with you. Fair enough.

Oscar Collazo used a P-38 and his partner Griselio Torresola had a Luger when they attempted to kill Harry Truman.

Counted that as a foiled Congressional assassination attempt, with Truman as a secondary target never engaged. There's a "plot" to kill the President at any given time.

Francisco Duran shot at the white house with an SKS while Clinton lived there.

Wouldn't count this either, unless he knew Clinton was inside in proximity and had the technical means of penetrating the curtainwall.

 

[Duke of Doubt]

rbernie: "I thought that the PR nationalists who tried to take out Truman carried a P08 and a P38 - no?"

See my reply to Zundfolge, above. I understood Truman to be a secondary target and never engaged, and that the primary, where the terrorists were fatally engaged, was the House. Correct me if I am mistaken.

 

[stubbicatt]

None of the above

If the spectre disappeared, I'd just buy, sell, trade as I would normally do. If I found something I liked better than what I have, I'd have much less reluctance to make a trade or sell something.

I guess the specre of AWB does sort of make me consider carefully any decisions I might make like that.

 

[chuckusaret]

I only buy guns to shoot, if I don't shoot them they are sold. I have friends who own 10 times more guns than me but only shoot one or two favorites. Their exotics remain locked away and never fired. On ocassion, when the right company is over, they take them out and stroke them.

 

[Ed Ames]

Kinda doesn't matter, but:

I think the reason for the "is this anti?" comments is that this poll really doesn't do anything except confirm biases. It doesn't offer the possibility for revelation -- the possibility we'll learn something new by reading or participating.

It gives people the option of being "cold dead hands" gun nuts, "arms to the highest bidder" opportunists, or Good ol boy hunter at heart but if it pisses off yankees I'm fer it too."

I'm not any of those things.

I think my parents grew up with the blue and walnut aesthetic. That's what they liked, what they talked about. I grew up with the laminate and stainless steel aesthetic. The gun I have that I think just looks best has a rather gaudy dyed laminate stock. If I had an unstocked SKS or AK and the choice of putting black plastic or red-green-purple-black laminate on it, I'd go for the laminate in a heartbeat. It's just what I like. Other people like green plastic.

I'm also very utilitarian. Odd combination, I know, but I detest things tacked on just because. If something is a part of my car, or my rifle, I want to know why and I want it to have a purpose.

The AR can actually fit fairly well into my functional and aesthetic standards. The rifles themselves are very functional, they can be interesting and utilitarian all at once. I'd buy one. Have....

But not because they are "evil" or because there is, was, or may be any sort of ban.

 

[JWF III]

My vote is for #4- One of these days I'll get around to buying a EBR.

But I do have to admit my Minis have the features that the antis love to hate.

Wyman

 

[Bill_Rights]

"Trollishly Anti" sub-text - rather important

On point: I voted "No" and am still buying guns that I should have bought years ago - not at all time to sell. On top of that, I am training family and friends on use of firearms (mine), and, when it's time for any of them to own a gun of their own, and if I had any extra, I'd give away or sell cheaply to them.

Off point: I know Zundfolge is neither anti nor, intentionally, a troll. Just read his tag line link sometime: http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel120501.shtml

But ZF's wording in the OP of this thread

your Monstrously High Powered Evil Black Rifles and Super Capacity Death Machine handguns

had me wondering whether or not to respond, for fear of falling into a troll's trap, even before I scrolled down as far as CoRoMo's comment. It had a "chilling effect", as liberals like to say, on my free expression. But I went away and thought about it and now I am back, thawed.

Thanks, CoRoMo, for calling ZF out, gently. As CoRoMo said in a follow-on post, the issue is not with ZF's personal credentials but the (unintended) effect of his words.

My new point: What CoRoMo did by flagging the effect of ZF's wording is a good thing, and, to my point, this is something that can only be rightly done by other members, not moderators. If a moderator were issuing troll challenges/warnings publicly, it really would be "chilling" and would (partly) play into the hands of the antis. When another member does so, it not only corrects the immediate "problem" but also raises the level of troll-vigilence and promotes care in selecting troll-proof posting and responding content. I think. I hope. (Still kinda a noob here.)

 

[Davionmaximus]

I won't sell mine until they come out with a hand held death ray...

 

[flrfh213]

I am hosting a safe haven for all firearms so yall feel free to send them to me for safe keeping...lol

 

[azhunter122]

Depends what guns I'm into, one day I might like Glocks, then 1911's the next. It all depends on my situation.