Without the original AWB would sporting rifles be where they are?

[wired]

If imports were blocked how did say AKs & SKSs get over here post ban?

They figured out ways to bypass the regs . 922r etc. Meeting the letter if not the spirit of the law. A lot of companies decided not to poke the bear and just stopped sending guns to the American market. FN, Daewoo, HK , Steyr etc .

 

[salmon creek gary]

Personally I believe the AWB of '94 was a diabolical plan to INCREASE the # of them to eventually create a problem that did not previously exist. . . .

I do agree that there is a "diabolical plan"; however, I do need help to understand how deliberately increasing popularity/availability of AR platform rifles (by banning them) could "eventually create a problem that did not previously exist".

I'm aboard with the concept that declaring something to be "forbidden fruit" will increase its attractiveness, and credibly blaming the AR platform for "the problem" would obviously be the goal of that diabolical plan.

I need help with seeing what that previously non-existent problem might that be. Trying to work it out for myself, I keep choking on the incredible notion that AR platform rifles will somehow cause folks to commit violent crimes at a greater rate than they always have.

 

[TTSX]

I got quoted 3 times for one comment. Dang

 

[Certaindeaf]

It can be attributed to more than one reason.
You're welcome.

 

[RVTECH]

"eventually create a problem that did not previously exist".

Forget this part. It was a misspoken idea, a misnomer.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

MSR=Modern Sporting Rifle

Thx. The only time I've seen that acronym used is for modular sniper rifle. I was thinking maybe he meant "military service rifle".

Maybe MSR stands for "many silly responses", ie what can happen when acronyms are used.

 

[Stomper]

I got quoted 3 times for one comment. Dang
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Did you get your no-no zone engorged?

 

[ilikegunspdx]

MSR = "My Special Replica"

 

[nwslopoke]

Um. "Semiautomatic rifle" works just as well....

Its not like we're calling Glocks/similar handgubs "modular plastic framed pistols"

Just wait for the MPFP ban proposal.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

MSR (Multi Shot Repeater). Acronyms suck.

 

[CamoDeafie]

@lucusloc , go up to any stranger and ask what they think when they hear or see the words "semiautomatic rifle" and I'll wager that at least for the under 50 crowd, it'll be mostly ARs, AKs, and maybe Mini-14/30s and not M1 Garands, M1 Carbines or Remington 740s.

 

[lucusloc]

@lucusloc , go up to any stranger and ask what they think when they hear or see the words "semiautomatic rifle" and I'll wager that at least for the under 50 crowd, it'll be mostly ARs, AKs, and maybe Mini-14/30s and not M1 Garands, M1 Carbines or Remington 740s.

Well seeing as MSRs are a sub class (and the most popular sub class at that) of semi-autos that makes sense. All MSRs are semi-atuo, not all semi-autos are MSRs.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

I think there was a virus going around called MSR.

 

[TTSX]

Mighty
Sexy
Richard



My name isn't Richard

 

[lucusloc]

Mighty
Sexy
Richard



My name isn't Richard

Yeah, you look more like a Dick to me.

 

[TTSX]

Yeah, you look more like a Dick to me.

I've been told that once or twice. Usually when I shave my head . You know, cause I'm a dickhead

 

[Hotdog 7]

I wasn't into guns too much at the time of the AWB because I was young then. From talking to older folks were who active in the 2A community in those days, it seems the ban caused a Streisand Effect. People get far more interested in most things when you tell them they can't have it for whatever reason.

 

[Deavis]

GWOT in the media for a few decades and Call of Duty type video games and widespread LE adoption likely contributed to many sales.

 

[DunRanull]

My first "modern sporting rifle" was a mini-14- up to 5 of them at one point. At the time I was pondering a "trip" to Rhodesia to find work... Well I got thru that and sold a couple of the minis and reinvested in an M1A, some AKs, and then a Colt AR15. All the minis are long gone and the AR has replaced them.. it seemed logical for availability of parts and after-market stuff.. The AKs are pretty much yesterdays newspapers, with the (political) cut off of ammo and other supplies from China and Russian Republic... Still like em more than the Ar15s, but that's the way things are, livin in the USA.

 

[ilostmypswrd]

Much like the OP, the AR/AK type of rifles offered no romance like a lever action rifle at least for me. Friends got interested in them, so I grabbed one to see what all the fuss was about.

Then I began building them with friends. Looking back, it worked out as now you can't get them in WA.

I'm only saddened that they all fell overboard in a canoeing accident...but don't pity me...LOL.

I, know, my best friends great dane ate all my 30 round PMAGS