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The so-called "assault weapon" ban was stupid--and just about anyone who knows anything about it knows it was stupid.
If you're like most gun owners, you probably have at least one anti-gun friend who can't understand why gun owners opposed the federal "assault weapon" ban originally, or why we oppose it now.
What I've generally found is that the vast majority of those individuals know next to nothing, if anything at all, about what the so-called "assault weapon" ban actually was. What they generally know is that they don't like guns that much in the first place, and they sure don't like any gun specifically designed for "assault."
If you have such a friend, I encourage you to send them this simple quiz and ask him or her to send back the answer.
Most knowledgeable gun owners should know the answer, but I'll be posting it in a separate post later on. (UPDATE: the answer is posted HERE).
At any rate, here is the first question:
Assuming each of the 20 firearms pictured below (i.e., the individual unit/product) was available for purchase in January 1994, how many would have been banned from sale, transfer or use in the United States during the period between 1994 and 2004 owing to the provisions of the Federal "Assault Weapon" Ban?
Good luck!
1. no pistol grip.
2. no flash suppresor.
3. 5 or 10 round magazine.
The ability to put a bayonet on a weapon also classes the weapon as an assault rifle.
I don't own a gun and I don't know anything about them. What I do know is, "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
There's been enough infringing, already. Enough is enough.
Thanks for that, Dave. I wish there were more people like you who have no particular interest in guns but recognize the importance of preserving our Constitutional rights.
In other words, the ban didn't do squat to take these "scary guns" off the "street".
Not that it mattered much anyway, since less than 2% of violent crimes committed with a gun are committed with these expensive, heavy, and difficult-to-conceal military style rifles.
Further, with minor modifications (eg lack of bayonet lug, stupid-looking thumbhole stock, etc), functionally identical guns WERE widely manufactured and available during the ban years.
Lastly, as a side thing, that Galil is pretty cool, and I wish the OTHER gun ban (that prevented their importation) would be revoked too.
I really do not "see" a problem here. Pretty much all crime committed with a fire-arm is usually a pistol. And usually the punks don't use it because they are stupid (thank god) or don't have the money to afford bullets, or went to purchase ammo and bought the wrong type because they are stupid and have had no NRA training, which, if they did, they would have learned that guns should not be used for crime and that the police and armed public do know how to use firearms better than these punks.
Cool Website!
Since they were ALL available for sale, etc., BEFORE the ban, they were grandfathered and therefore NOT covered by the ban.
They just cost more during that 10 year period!! :(