Was you first AR 15 before or after the 94 ban? Poll

Posted: 5/2/2003 4:31:59 PM EDT

Mine was in 1982. A Colt Car 15. A B'day present from my Dad. He didn't even wrap it. A real mans man.
Within 30 min I was at the range. I still have it, and will never sell it.

Posted: 5/2/2003 4:33:56 PM EDT

[#1]

My first was pre, but I sold that one to my brother when I was short on cash years ago.

Posted: 5/2/2003 4:35:31 PM EDT

[#2]

I grew up shooting my Fathers early 70's SP1 Colt.

Posted: 5/2/2003 4:37:22 PM EDT

[#3]

way after, like september 12th 2001

Posted: 5/2/2003 4:51:23 PM EDT

[#4]

I bought mine in 1984. It was a Colt sporter 2, & I made the mistake of selling it in 1993 for $1,000. It had a 8 to 21 power scope, & about 30 30rd mags. I literally had a full to the top paper grocery bag full of mags, & extras. Boy was I stupid to do that. Thanks for the reminder![:(!]

Posted: 5/2/2003 4:54:47 PM EDT

[#5]

1975

Posted: 5/2/2003 5:07:05 PM EDT

[#6]

Mine was a pre-Clinton Colt.

Edited to say that it wasn't until several years after the 94 ban that I realized that Ar-15 type rifles were made by businesses other than Colt and Olympic.

Posted: 5/2/2003 5:09:28 PM EDT

[#7]

PreBan Colt Hbar Sporter- Traded for PreBan Benelli M3 Super 90 which I sold.
Preban Bushmaster Shorty (not AK)-traded for something...don't remember
PreBan OlyArms CAR-style- traded for unfired preban Hungarian AK underfolder which I sold.
Post Ban Bushmaster Shorty AK- don't remember what happened to that one.
List could go on for quite a bit....

TS

Posted: 5/2/2003 5:12:34 PM EDT

[#8]

Got my first AR in '99.

Was in the service prior to the AWB and didn't have the $$$ for a rifle or a suitable place to store it.

Funny thing is, my separation date from the USAF is 13SEP94. I guess that would make me a pre-ban.

-934

Posted: 5/2/2003 5:40:44 PM EDT

[#9]

1 Bushmaster before the ban. The rest came after.

Posted: 5/2/2003 5:42:57 PM EDT

[#10]

Got my first around 1986 +/- IIRC.

It was one of the first Colt AR-15A2 HBAR's that Wammes shipped out when I had my FFL.

Still have her. Very Fine.

MM419

Posted: 5/2/2003 5:46:28 PM EDT

[#11]

Like a dope, I never bought one pre 94. I was picky and cheap at the time and I couldn't find one I liked for the price I wanted. Little did I know $400 was cheap at the time. In the famous words of Homer Simpson "DOH!" [>Q] [brick]

Posted: 5/2/2003 5:50:41 PM EDT

[#12]

bought mine in early '93

March I think

Posted: 5/2/2003 6:15:47 PM EDT

[#13]

Owned 3 Pre-Bans before they were Pre-Ban and still have one of them.
Sold one and traded one off before D-Day Sept. 1994 , [banghead] [>Q]

Posted: 5/2/2003 8:15:04 PM EDT

[#14]

Sept. 2002. Sorry I came to the party so late!

Posted: 5/2/2003 8:22:53 PM EDT

[#15]

I bought mine in 2002. I was in the 8th grade during the ban.

CRC

Posted: 5/2/2003 8:27:45 PM EDT

[#16]

1981. Only wish I had bought more of them.

Posted: 5/2/2003 8:34:14 PM EDT

[#17]

1978 Colt SP1 $229.00 NIB

Posted: 5/2/2003 8:36:31 PM EDT

[#18]

229.00 - you are the devil.

i joined the army in 88, does that count as getting my first one?

Posted: 5/2/2003 8:37:07 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
Mine was in 1982. A Colt Car 15. A B'day present from my Dad. He didn't even wrap it. A real mans man.
Within 30 min I was at the range. I still have it, and will never sell it.

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Mine was in 84. The day I arrived home from the Corps, my dad gave me a coming home/birthday present, a CAR-15. That was a good day. Still have it, but don't shoot it as much as I did when I was 22.

Posted: 5/2/2003 8:39:18 PM EDT

[#20]

1983...A NIB Colt SP1

Posted: 5/2/2003 10:08:49 PM EDT

[#21]

Mine was an Oly, collapsable stock, huge supressor... just like the Sarge on "Tour of Duty" had.

Posted: 5/2/2003 10:10:54 PM EDT

[#22]

I sold all my prebans to some idiots who set up a card table down in front of city hall one weekend, several years ago. I think they called it a "buy back" program or some such nonsense (never did figure that out...as far as I know, the rifles were never theirs in the first place). Anyway, they gave me $50 apiece for them, so I think I made out pretty well. But then, like I said, they were idiots.

cynic

Posted: 5/2/2003 10:18:27 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
I sold all my prebans to some idiots who set up a card table down in front of city hall one weekend, several years ago. I think they called it a "buy back" program or some such nonsense (never did figure that out...as far as I know, the rifles were never theirs in the first place). Anyway, they gave me $50 apiece for them, so I think I made out pretty well. But then, like I said, they were idiots.

cynic

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I hope that was a joke.

[ROFL] [ROFL2] [ROFL]

Posted: 5/2/2003 10:31:00 PM EDT

[#24]

I got my first(and for now only) AR15 in 1999. It's a Bushmaster. I didn't even know AR15s existed back when the ban came into effect. Hell, I didn't even know there was a ban until I became a member here. Although I was on my high school JROTC rifle team and enjoyed shooting, I wasn't really "into" guns until 1999. If I only knew then what I know now.

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Posted: 5/2/2003 10:39:54 PM EDT

[#25]

Feb. 2001 - same time I joined this board.

Seemed like a good idea at the time.

Posted: 5/2/2003 10:56:47 PM EDT

[#26]

May 2002. The only guns I was interested in in 1994 was my hunting rifle and my Ruger P89. How times change...I'd give up my 30-06 for another AR any day, now.

Posted: 5/3/2003 12:12:09 AM EDT

[#27]

Preban Oly in 1993. Saw the ban coming and figured I'd better get one before I couldn't anymore, and I'd been wanting one for years before that. Wish I'd bought more prebans back then. Added a postban or two or three since then.

BIG TIME regret... wish I'd bought that brand spankin' new Colt SP1 for $189 in a South Florida Montgomery-Wards back in the late 1970s. [banghead]

Posted: 5/3/2003 12:26:48 AM EDT

[#28]

Pre

A group of friends were going shooting. My guns were in another city from where I was then living. I wanted an AR and this would be the excuse.

I head on out to the local store. Ask for an AR. They are OUT of them. I am feeling very disappointed. So I start considering the 10-22's so I wouldn't have to borrow at the shoot.

While beginning to do the deal for the 10-22 the delivery truck arrives. Gun sales guy says he'll check the delivery.

I ended up with a fresh-off-the-truck SP-1.

I should have bought the whole shipment.

Posted: 5/3/2003 12:30:35 AM EDT

[#29]

My first AR was a Stirling AR-180, purchased around 1984 at a gun show.

The night of the Stockton schoolyard shooting in 1989, I got on the phone with some friends and told them that the Leftists would use this as an excuse to ban ARs.

I have been on a buying spree ever since. Due to stupid Socialist laws in Kalifornia I decline to state the current size and whereabouts of my stockpile.

P.S. But my boardname offers a clue...

Posted: 5/3/2003 12:33:43 AM EDT

[#30]

Colt Lightweight Sporter. 1992. $630 NIB

Posted: 5/3/2003 1:09:32 AM EDT

[#31]

After ... before the ban I was still in high school. I had always wanted one, but my father wouldn't let me own a rifle while I lived at home. Pretty hypocritical considering he owned 4-5 rifles (and not once did he ever bother to teach me or my siblings about firearms safety ... I was thinking about that the other day and I got rather pissed off about how irresponsible that was). Anyway, it kind of took a back burner priority after that and never really came back to the forefront of my interests until late last year. Better late than never, I guess.

Posted: 5/3/2003 4:00:27 AM EDT

[#32]

My first was about the time I joined the board. Been wanting one for quite a while and went to a gun show and bought a Bushmaster. Then done some searching and found this site.

Posted: 5/3/2003 4:34:41 AM EDT

[#33]

Colt, back in the '70s. I won't say what I sold it for but I wish I still had it!

Posted: 5/3/2003 4:45:42 AM EDT

[#34]

I got my first (and only so far) in March of 2000. I'm hoping to add a pre-ban soon!

Posted: 5/3/2003 5:12:02 AM EDT

[#35]

Mine 1st ar was after the 94 ban.

Posted: 5/3/2003 5:20:50 AM EDT

[#36]

I bought my '88 Colt R6600 in early 1999. Wasn't really looking for a new rifle, but a friend of a friend wanted to sell it for $750 with a broken firing pin. Couldn't turn down that deal.

Posted: 5/3/2003 5:48:07 AM EDT

[#37]

I did not realize I needed one until I was told I couldn't\shouldn't have one. Now I have several and the government made me do it.

Posted: 5/3/2003 5:59:10 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
I did not realize I needed one until I was told I couldn't\shouldn't have one. Now I have several and the government made me do it.

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I was content with my 1 until I was told I couldn't be trusted.

Now I just can't seem to buy enough of them.

Posted: 5/3/2003 6:03:31 AM EDT

[#39]

I bought my first AR in a mad rush just a few days before the ban passed the senate. I paid a god awfull $900.00 for a NIB Colt preban and $12.00 each for NIW GI 30rnd mags.

Posted: 5/3/2003 7:41:33 AM EDT

[#40]

When the ban passed I was in 2nd grade. I got my AR 2 months ago.

Posted: 5/3/2003 11:13:58 AM EDT

[#41]

Bought mine May 5, 1994 the day they signed the crime bill and told me I coulnt have one. I never was interested in an AR untill then. I guess, thanks Bill.
GG

Posted: 5/3/2003 11:38:14 AM EDT

[#42]

Colt Sporter Target. Still have it.....lots and lots and lots of rounds through it. Who ever said that a barrel was only good for 10-20K rounds certainly wasn't talking about this one!

Posted: 5/3/2003 11:48:09 AM EDT

[#43]

6601 before.

Posted: 5/3/2003 12:05:12 PM EDT

[#44]

My first 4 AR's were before 94.

The first one around 1975, a Colt SP1.

Posted: 5/3/2003 12:08:12 PM EDT

[#45]

Early 70s

Posted: 5/3/2003 12:10:20 PM EDT

[#46]

PWA Commando lower with a Colt HBar upper, 1990.

Posted: 5/3/2003 12:30:04 PM EDT

[#47]

1981/82 Colt SP1, my ex-wife stole it a pawned it...had it almost 20 years

Posted: 5/3/2003 1:14:46 PM EDT

[#48]

Didn't get interested in them until '99. Prior to that I was a target shooter/hunter who did not understand the fun in shooting the "black guns".
It's one of the few things that I can thank my ex for. While going through the divorce, handling all the dirty work in finishing things up, and watching my life go down in flames I needed a diversion. A friend who was into the military stuff took me out shooting to "get me out of the house to do something fun."
It worked, I had a blast, and haven't looked back since. I only get pre-bans because "they" don't want us to have them.
(You should have seen the look on her face when she dropped in to pick up some things and I had it apart on the kitchen island for cleaning. She blurted out "what is that for?"
Since it was a 6601 I said "for extreme accuracy in long range shooting."
She left shortly after. Twit. She was too into herself to understand that I didn't care enough to pose any danger to her.)

Posted: 5/3/2003 1:19:20 PM EDT

[#49]

Originally Posted By Gun Guru:
Bought mine May 5, 1994 the day they signed the crime bill and told me I coulnt have one. I never was interested in an AR untill then. I guess, thanks Bill.
GG

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I bought my Benelli M1 "Tactical" the same exact day.

I was watching the BS crime bill shit on tv and saw them assholes talking shit about them.

Posted: 5/3/2003 1:22:05 PM EDT

[#50]

I got my first one in 2000....my dad had to sign for it beacuse i was not 18 yet. i will oneday get a pre-ban

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