Posted: 1/19/2011 9:44:33 PM EDT
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I'm sure this has been asked before, but I was talking to a friend of mine today and got to wondering. What happened when the Hughes Amendment passed, or the ban of 1994? I'm only 20 so I'm not old enough to remember.
I'm only asking because of the talk of the magazine ban, and was wondering what the response would be if it passed(i know, i know, it probably won't, just in theory.) Just wondering because it seems like if people accepted those bans, what wouldn't they accept? If a ban passed tomorrow on "assault weapons," what would you do? what could you do? I know it seems like "well, i already have X amount of guns, X amount of bullets and magazines, so I'm fine if anything happens" but what about future generations? The Hughes Amendment and the 1984 ban don't seem too far away from banning guns outright, and in my opinion are blatantly unconstitutional. What would it take before gun owners as a whole had enough and decided to "react"? Or have we already passed the point where we should have fought them by letting our rights get stolen, and its all slowly downhill from here? 
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I read that before I posted, gotta love wikipedia 
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