Quote Originally Posted by ColoradoTJ View Post
I read in another thread that you moved out to CA. I lived there from 93-97. Back then it was a lot more gun friendly. I purchased my first Colt Sporter there, most of my high capacity mags, and went shooting all the time. I was always so surprised at how many had AR style rifles. I grew up in MT, and guns were everywhere and "heard" about the gun nazi's in CA. I just didn't see it back then, but glad I had them on more than one occasion.
The few times I've seen AR-15 style rifles at the range here, the owners didn't know what the hell they were talking about. It was disappointing and scary. I got talking to one guy who I thought wasn't totally brainwashed and I told him that in every other state you could own a rifle with a barrel less than 16" long with the right paperwork and his jaw just dropped... "Even one of these?" (pointing at his CA-friendly M&P15) "Yep! It's a ton of fun!" I replied. ...His response? (totally serious) "Man, that's just too dangerous." I just about slapped him. After that, he kept looking over at me like I wasn't trustworthy or something.