Man, I remember it like it was yesterday. The ups and down that happened in that ten-year period was absolutely insane and incredible at the same time. How the market and industry changed, but more importantly how the political landscape changed.
Re: 30 years ago, the Clinton AWB was signed and enacted into law. 20 years ago, it expired.
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 5:22 pm
by N4KVE
Life was much safer during that 10 year period according to Biden. Flash hiders were tac welded on instead of threaded, collapsible butt stocks were fixed open, & new hi cap mags were unavailable, although I never had a problem finding them. But the lack of these 3 features turned “assault weapons” into “sporting weapons”, & made them much safer. Job well done. GARY
Re: 30 years ago, the Clinton AWB was signed and enacted into law. 20 years ago, it expired.
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2024 8:02 am
by Wulfmann
LOL N4
Some people still believe AR15s were banned, no one had them at all and high cap mags were banned, no one had them. I have talked with people that believe this and there is no changing their minds
I also remember early 1995 a vendor at a GS with 8 tables full of high cap mags. He said he cashed in everything and mortgaged his home to profit from the ban
The problem was 2 things as N4 stated there was no ban on AR15s or other similar weapons just some new regs on little things so basically nothing anti-gunners should have been happy with
The magazine ban limiting capacity to 10 rounds only applied to newly made mags and any mag manufactured before the law took affect in 100+ days would be grandfathered in.
Mag makers ramped up production to around one million a day meaning there were an additional 100,000,000 30 round AR15 mags available and legal.
There was never a shortage in fact there was a glut of AR15 mags even 10 years later
I wonder what happened to the guy that bought as many as he could to cash in on AR15 mags
Re: 30 years ago, the Clinton AWB was signed and enacted into law. 20 years ago, it expired.
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2024 11:49 am
by N4KVE
Reminds me of a gun show I went to in Port Everglades after the ban started. A German, or Austrian guy was walking around selling brand new Glock hi cap mags for $30 each. A deal when scalpers were trying to get $100 a piece. A flipper approached him offering to buy all he had at $50 each. The seller politely told him to “fork off”, and that he wasn’t going to make a flipper rich. His goal was to sell everyone who wanted one for $30 to offset the artificially high prices due to the ban. I still got mine. GARY.
Re: 30 years ago, the Clinton AWB was signed and enacted into law. 20 years ago, it expired.
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2024 12:03 pm
by Flame Red
I remember sitting at my keyboard on a AR build party. Assembling a brand new one out of parts I collected during the ban, as the seconds ticked down.
The brain dead libiturds cannot think for themselves and the Kommies are more well entrenched now. Janet Rino, may she burn in hell, was a light weight compared to myolkus. The reason they did not want RFK off the ballot is that they had already printed up new ballots with Kameltoe already prefilled out for precincts they need to win. The Kommies had the winning formula in 2020, why change now?
Re: 30 years ago, the Clinton AWB was signed and enacted into law. 20 years ago, it expired.
Re: 30 years ago, the Clinton AWB was signed and enacted into law. 20 years ago, it expired.
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2024 6:46 pm
by lakelandman
Great post good info thanks.
Re: 30 years ago, the Clinton AWB was signed and enacted into law. 20 years ago, it expired.
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2024 3:23 pm
by Chigger
When the AWB expired, I was asked to debate John Shanks from the Brady Center on NPR. There was to be myself on the progun side and Shanks, a Florida police chief and an FBI agent on the anti-gun side. When NPR out of Tampa got me on the phone, they declared that the FBI agent and the Florida police chief had cancelled, and it was just going to be Shanks and myself which was okay to me.
Shanks was trying the typical liberal off course slight of hand and I kept bringing him back with facts and figures from the FBI and Justice dept on crime stats and how they didn't really change at all. It just made a bunch of gun owners money selling pre ban ar's and high cap mags for stupid money to dumb buyers.
Somewhere in the house I have the tape to cd of that show. Going to have to find it and relisten to it again for a laugh.
