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This is incorrect. The correct nformation can be found here: Federal Assault Weapons Ban - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediano ars...no aks... Nothing with a detachable mag and pistol grip.
Semi-automatic rifles able to accept detachable magazines and two or more of the following:
Folding or telescoping stock
Pistol grip
Bayonet mount
Flash suppressor, or threaded barrel designed to accommodate one
Grenade launcher (more precisely, a muzzle device that enables launching or firing rifle grenades, though this applies only to muzzle mounted grenade launchers and not those mounted externally).
no ars...no aks... Nothing with a detachable mag and pistol grip.
I can't remember if I bought my AR during the ban or immediately after. I remember it shipped with a permanently attached AK style brake and no lug and a 10 round mag so I am thinking I bought it during the ban. Funny thing is I think I bought 3 30 round Thermold's for it then.
I never had much luck with the Thermolds... You could still buy all the high capacity magazines you wanted during the ban years, it was just that new production for civilian sale was prohibited - and there was no law against using them in a ban config. weapon. If I recall correctly the price of 30rnd AR mags stabilized at around $30 a piece and they were never in short supply. A lot of them were probably purloined military property.
I never had much luck with the Thermolds... You could still buy all the high capacity magazines you wanted during the ban years, it was just that new production for civilian sale was prohibited - and there was no law against using them in a ban config. weapon. If I recall correctly the price of 30rnd AR mags stabilized at around $30 a piece and they were never in short supply. A lot of them were probably purloined military property.
My Thermolds still work fine but I have to admit that once the PMAG's came out I rarely use the Thermolds anymore. Could a PMAG or other reliable follower be installed in a Thermold or other mag? Kind of ironic that there was a hi cap mag ban back then and yet you could still get them. Makes one wonder about the logic of the ban back in the day.
Not sure about follower compatibility with the Thermolds, I gave up on them and just bought a crap ton of GI mags when I saw the ban coming. In fact I have so many GI mags laying around I never got around to picking up any Pmags. I was going to try some of the 20rnd Pmags since I like to play with my scoped SPR these days and don't have as many 20's but looks like I procrastinated just a bit too long. Oh well, life will go on. With the Republicans firmly in control of the House there is a good chance that a new ban will never even make it to a floor vote anyhow.
Sure hope you are right. No doubt some changes will be coming down as the political pressures are probably huge right now on some folks.
In the eyes of the goverment it is anything that has military characteristics. Like everything said before. And it wasn't banning ownership of them, It was banning new sales of them made after the date it was set for. That's why you hear a lot of "pre-ban and post-ban". And even a high cap mag ban would just be banning new sales of them... not ownership of them. Let me know if i'm incorrect on any of this, but i don't believe i am.
My thought is that the Republicans (who control the House and that means leadership, agenda, rules etc.) have not cooperated one bit with the Obama administration over the last 4 years so why would they hand him a victory now?