94 AWB--lessons from the past

[Guest celler]

Can anyone recount their experience with the 94 AWB? I wasn't a gun owner at the time and was living out of the country. I don't remember how it went down, what kind of rush on guns and magazines it created, and how people coped in the decade that followed. Appreciate your thoughts/suggestions/prognostications.

[Clod Stomper]

I think there is another thread that addresses this very thing. But in short, it was a bit like this time except not as bad because no one expected it to pass. Mag manufacturers did crank out as many mags as they could leading up to it.

After it did pass, manufacturers simply changed the cosmetics of the affected guns to comply with the law. Renamed the ones that were named in the law. So for 10 years, you couldn't have a flash suppressor or bayonet lug on your AR, unless you had a thumb hole stock or eliminated some other "dangerous" feature. I seem to recall someone even making a pump action AR-style rifle.

It was ridiculous. It will be ridiculous this time if it passes again. This law will be stricter, so it will be more ridiculous.

My prediction? It barely passed a democrat-controlled congress the first time. Now the republicans control the house. And many dems still remember the trouncing they got in the '94 election mostly because of the AWB. I don't think we'll see an AWB legally pass both houses. That's not to say that there will not be other attempts, like an executive order or the UN arms treaty.

Of course, I've been wrong before.

[runco]

http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/56525-how-bad-was-the-first-ban/

[Guest celler]

[quote name='Runco' timestamp='1356710503' post='870474']http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/56525-how-bad-was-the-first-ban/[/quote] Thanks