So what actually happened during the last AWB

[Bailey Guns]

^^ I don't remember bayonets ever being illegal.

[Goodburbon]

^^ I don't remember bayonets ever being illegal.

I don't either. but I sure do remember buckets full of "tent stakes" for $10 apiece on the tables down south.

[Gunner]

I know if Obama is in office another 4 years he wants to reinstate the AWB permanately but what if they decide all so called Assault weapons were made illegal and you had to give yours up? Can they do that? I would like to say "from my cold dead hands" but now I am worried.

That something that would be scary on both ends and would go over like a lead balloon

[jerrymrc]

I know if Obama is in office another 4 years he wants to reinstate the AWB permanately but what if they decide all so called Assault weapons were made illegal and you had to give yours up? Can they do that? I would like to say "from my cold dead hands" but now I am worried.

Never Happen. Just saying.

[ray1970]

The bayonets weren't illegal. It was just illegal to attach one to a semi-auto rifle if that rifle accepted detachable magazines.

[Great-Kazoo]

Outside of the restrictions on magazines, firearms and evil features manufactred after 9/94
was this/
IT CREATED AN INGENIOUS Industry of parts and accessories that some how made their way on to the market.
IT also created many small start up companies that produced (OR contracted out) AR Lowers that were not named in the 94 crime bill.
While Colt, BM, Oly, ARmalite could not be sold in CA Other vendors who just started were and in some cases able to still sell AR lowers in CA, NY and other AWB states.

Thumbhole stocks allowed AK's to still be sold.
HOWEVER a lot of small start ups and other business at the time started to mfg (or again contract) 922 Compliant parts.
FSE for one

Tapco is still in business. Federal Arms has passed in to the sunset as did a few other companies.
Williams? a company who cranked out Al FN upper receivers, came and went, jerrymc has one and as i remember from the early FALFILES did some amazing things to it, only not in 308. Jerry remember LarryFN from the midwest That guy had a shit load of fn parts & acc. Same for that frog from Quebec?. I still have business cards of theirs.
Enterprise sold receivers and complete FN's so did DSA. Hell DSA was a 2 brothers operation out of Ill. Their mfg of us receivers and importation of Belgium, South African, and brazilian? FN parts kits had folks like me going crazy assembling (for fun and personal pleasure, NOT RESALE) FN's which you could not buy as they were originally sold here, but never the less build or buy from a few vendors.

A few of us remember the SA FN kits with the 1/2 ass SA cammo pattern paint jobs. You could buy a complete kit minus upper receiver and 922 comp parts for $150!
AK's ChiCom, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Polish all were allowed in but again THole stocks.

I could score 20rd Colt branded ar mags and off them for a "reasonable" profit.

The hand guns that were imported such as the HS200, Now the Springfield XD came with 10 rd mags. Smart, thinking guys like Pat of PM gun smithing / Jensens at that time looked at th e10 rd mags measured mag body dimensions and created from Beretta 92 mags 15 round mags that worked in the HS2K's. I was able to convert S&W 59 series 15 rd mags to work in my P99.

While it screwed the pooch for gun owners regarding flash hiders, more than 10 round mags, folding stocks it also Created a whole industry specifically to get around the ban, LEGALLY and within ATF guidelines.

When i dig it up i will post a few pictures from a Cobray catalog i have collecting dust. Think $30 is a high price to pay today for a magazine

[Great-Kazoo]

Also the gun shows became laden with "tent stakes" because bayonets were not legal to sell.

They were removed from the SKS as it could not be released from the docks with them on it. Piles of the so called tent stakes were usually on hand somewhere at gun shows.

[Tinelement]

Thanks for all the info Gents!

'94 I was a freshman so didn't really care either.

Good to learn some of the intel.

Either way, I knew enough about it to be scared last night!

( not like I don't have my mind made up! Sheesh!!! )

[jerrymrc]

A few of us remember the SA FN kits with the 1/2 ass SA cammo pattern paint jobs. You could buy a complete kit minus upper receiver and 922 comp parts for $150!

The days of the $300 Fal. One could buy G-1 or Imbel kits for $89 each and if ya bought two ya got free shipping from Tapco.

Buddy made a hand picked kit right after I got a bum one back then. Look what $300 got ya in 2001.

[Goodburbon]

They were removed from the SKS as it could not be released from the docks with them on it. Piles of the so called tent stakes were usually on hand somewhere at gun shows.

That explains it, thanks!