So what does a "ban" on Assault weapons really mean?

[gym]

Would someone who knows what this could entail, please explain what this actually will mean as far as current owners.
And would simplly using a 10 round mag, in your pistols make then legal to carry, or is it 9 rounds and one in the pipe?
During the previous ban, I bought a Glock 30 that came with 9 round mags. after the ban was lifted, they all went to 10 , is this a fair assumprion.
Guns like the glock 19 are manditory in CA with 10 rounders if I am correct, so would we all would be like living in CA?

 

[AlexanderA]

We have to see what the actual proposal amounts to. So far all we're hearing is hot air. It's a fair bet that whatever is proposed will go beyond the AWB of '94.

 

[Hokkmike]

In each "proposal" I have read the words not retroactive appear. That, at least, gives me the feeling that we will be able to keep the guns we have.

But who knows, AND...(big and) let us not be defeatist and give up the ship.

There are still SOME level headed people who will cast their votes. We are talking about challenging a major tenant of the Bill of Rights. It should not be an easy thing to do.

Shame on people who are politicizing tragic events to achieve their own ends.

 

[ol' scratch]

I have also read non transferable.

 

[hso]

No crystal ball here, or anywhere else, so there's no way to predict.

The Feinstein plan supposedly is like the old AWB in that whatever is owned at the time of enactment is grandfathered (pre-ban).

 

[chris in va]

An 'assault rifle' ban is merely a collection of gun parts they don't like.

Think of it like this. Someone takes a muscle car and plows it into a crowd. Suddenly there's a call to control muscle cars. But they can't just ban certain cars, so a certain tire size/engine type/top speed/horsepower range is deemed evil. Unfortunately it also affects race cars and humble taxis. That $25k Camaro is suddenly worth $50k.

Or something like that.

 

[Dr. Sandman]

Nobody knows anything at this point. I tried to find the list of "900 guns " that will be exempted, no luck.

Stay positive guys! I think that any ban would be an uphill fight. I hope that we will all fight it by writing congress and trying to convince level headed people to be like minded.

 

[HoosierQ]

Well you'd have to define an Assault Weapon first and that's tough. Technically they're already severely restricted by NFA and there are very few of them legal...like numbered in the thousands.

The more "popular" use of the term is variously applied to just about any gun that's not wood or carries more than X number of rounds in its magazine.

Legally, it is whatever any current law in effect defines it as...in a jurisdiction that applies. There is no such thing as an assault weapon at the federal level since 2004. There is no such thing as an assault weapon in Indiana for example...at the state level. No such thing either in Florida or Texas or Utah or Kentucky or Arizona I would bet.

There is, I believe, such a thing, as defined by state laws in California, Mass, NY maybe, NJ, and places like that. And what that will be will be different in each state. California I think just has a list of guns and if your gun is on it...too bad for you. There a number of California compliant versions of things. I've seen Massachusets versions of things...but the two don't match. A stock SKS is legal in California I believe.

 

[tarakian]

The language they seem to be using now is a ban on "
military style" weapons. If they somehow get it passed with terminology that vague, it will eventually apply to pretty much every gun ever made. Once the law is in effect, the president can issue executive orders on how it is enforced. First it will be guns similar to what is covered in the various state bans already in effect. He can then expand it to all semis, then all bolt actions, then all pumps, then all revolvers. There aren't a lot of guns that weren't at some point "military style". I can also see them disallowing transfer of any pre-bans, so that only the owner when the ban goes into effect can have them. Once the owner of record dies, then the banned item must be turned into the government for destruction. I would guess that they will tack that onto the language for closing the non-existent "gun show loophole".

 

[Skribs]

I like this idea for an assault weapons ban:

You are banned from using your weapons to assault another individual.

Assuming of course that in the course of the legislation, self defense or defense of others is specifically excluded from the definition of assault.