Was There This Much Of A Uproar When The Last A.W.B Was Passed?

[Jack Crabb]

Lots of good points here.

I would add that I was in law school from 1988 to 1991. I wanted to write my thesis on the second amendment. There was next to nothing out there written on the subject.

Now, there are endless law review articles, historical research, court briefs, etc.

Substantially more is known about the intentions and consequences of the RKBA today than it was before the Clinton AWB.

[InfScout]

When the first one passed, I was in my post-divorce state of firearms ownership. I had sold most of what I had to make ends meet as I lost everything to a blood-sucking ex-wife. I finally got financially stable after the AWB and had to abide by the regulations to start rebuilding my collection.

Unfortunately for me, even though the fed AWB sunset, the stupid idiots in CT passed a similar state law that didn't. So I was stuck until I could relocate. It'll be 20 months until I retire. But then, the feds may pass another stupid law that will affect me when I move and my dreams and goals will be ruined.

I put up with the stupid CT laws knowing I would be leaving. I figured I could tolerate the CT law in exchange for a nice state pension and the fact I could leave to a more gun friendly area and take my CT state pension with me... with a good ha-ha on them. (Hey, you get your satisfaction in all kinds of juvenile ways. )

This current attempt to pass a new fed AWB is bad. We lived through the first one and finally had the political pull to make sure it was not renewed across the country even though there are about 6 states who did it even worse to their residents through state laws. I don't want the rest of the country to have to abide by what we do in CT.

I lived through basically what the AWB was for a lot longer than most people in the rest of the country have because of the moronic CT law. It's sucks and now everyone knows it does. So yeah, the opposition to the fed proposals is much stronger this go-around.

[Rockchuck]

In '94 I had just gotten out of the Army and was getting ready to go to college. I had also just bought my first handgun, a used Ruger Super Blackhawk, so I also sent in the money for an NRA membership. The general population may not have known much about it, but I was getting mail from the NRA what seemed like almost daily that a ban was coming. I must admit I was very short sighted at the time and just didn't think it would happen, or that it would be a big deal if it did - there was no danger of my single action six-shooter showing up on a banned list. I didn't have the money to shoot it very often, much less go out and buy anything else. I even had friend that called the NRA and cancelled his membership because they were fighting the ban. He just didn't believe that anyone needed anything larger that a 10 round magazine - and he was an avid shooter that got me into it. After college I finally had enough money to get back into shooting more, only to find that I couldn't even get high-cap mags for a 10/22!

[PalmettoTree]

Elections have consequences you voted for and re-elected an anti-freedom President.