Its Been 6 Years Since the Sunset of the AWB! 9/13/1994 - 9/13/2004 RIP!

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Its Been 6 Years Since the Sunset of the AWB! 9/13/1994 - 9/13/2004 RIP! (Page 1 of 2)

Posted: 9/14/2010 7:33:23 AM EDT

Sorry for those still behind enemy lines but at least the AWB sunset freed up alot of preban gear for you guys that have to have the pre 1994 stuff.

The AWB sunset was the beginning of my black rifle disease.

I had wanted an AR for a couple of years, but couldn't bring myself to buy a nutered one.

I held out and after the sunset bought a compete lower half from R-Guns and an upper from a neighbor.

Its been downhill ever since.

Posted: 9/14/2010 7:34:12 AM EDT

[#1]

So glad.

Posted: 9/14/2010 7:34:37 AM EDT

[#2]

When did the Bullet Button hit the market ?

Posted: 9/14/2010 7:35:27 AM EDT

[#3]

Come visit NY, where the AWB (ours is a mirror of the federal one) never went away!

Posted: 9/14/2010 7:37:22 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Come visit NY, where the AWB (ours is a mirror of the federal one) never went away!

In a strange way you guys have it worse than us in california ...

Posted: 9/14/2010 7:38:45 AM EDT

[#5]

I hope you didn't just jinx us.

Posted: 9/14/2010 7:40:28 AM EDT

[#6]

Damn streets are red with bloooooooood!!!!!!

Posted: 9/14/2010 7:53:00 AM EDT

[#7]

you know what sucks about being able to buy an AK-47/variant from the ICE CREAM truck ?

trying to get a refund when the mags you bought dont macth your weapon..

seems they never come around twice in a 14 day peroid.. then they say.. sorry we have a 14 day return policy..

they sell you something then go somewhere else for 15 days before driving with thier little music thru your hood again .

bastards..

on the up side when i asked for a fudge bomb.. i was "pleasantly supprised "

Posted: 9/14/2010 7:53:57 AM EDT

[#8]

The sunsetting of that stupid, libtard, commie law was one of the happiest days of my life.

That VERY DAY, I took one of my AR's to a gunshop and had them thread the barrel for a flash hider.

I did it so quickly that the gunsmith looked at me like

........but then he quickly realized he should look at me like.........

Posted: 9/14/2010 7:54:06 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Come visit NY, where the AWB (ours is a mirror of the federal one) never went away!

That is why I said sorry for you guys behind enemy lines.

The AWB sunset should have at least made the preban stuff cheaper for you guys.

I have seen $10 preban mags and preban rifles going for way less than during the ban years.

Posted: 9/14/2010 8:03:26 AM EDT

[#10]

$25 for Sanchez AR mags. $40ish for G3 mags. $40 to $50 for M14 mags.

These were deals at the time. Btw, whatever happened to One eye Jack?

Posted: 9/14/2010 8:04:01 AM EDT

[#11]

That was a good time to be on ARFCOM.

Posted: 9/14/2010 8:06:13 AM EDT

[#12]

That long, wow.

I remember the celebrations at the time. People posted pics of build parties ...

I wasn't convinced it would actually be allowed to sunset.

Posted: 9/14/2010 8:08:35 AM EDT

[#13]

It was a purely cosmetic law that did NOTHING to affect the lethality of weapons.

Good riddance.

Posted: 9/14/2010 8:09:58 AM EDT

[#14]

That was a glorious day.

Posted: 9/14/2010 8:10:41 AM EDT

[#15]

We still have the old AWB here just like NY...

The "funny" thing is, I told myself that I'd be living in a free state shortly after the ban ended... nope, still stuck behind enemy lines.

ETA: I need a lotto win.

Posted: 9/14/2010 8:11:35 AM EDT

[#16]

I remember there was some confusion about the actual date.
YAY it's over, oh wait, maybe we have another 24 hours.

Everybody was worried that they were going to pass AWB2 as soon as possible. I mean, I still worry about it, but I don't think anyone is glued to CSPAN in case they suddenly decide to pass one in the middle of the night.

Posted: 9/14/2010 8:12:47 AM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
...

I wasn't convinced it would actually be allowed to sunset.

I wasn't either, and I am glad to have been 100% WRONG on that one.

Posted: 9/14/2010 8:13:48 AM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
I remember there was some confusion about the actual date.
YAY it's over, oh wait, maybe we have another 24 hours.

Everybody was worried that they were going to pass AWB2 as soon as possible. I mean, I still worry about it, but I don't think anyone is glued to CSPAN in case they suddenly decide to pass one in the middle of the night.

A Zero Second term =AWB2

Posted: 9/14/2010 8:15:36 AM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
That was a glorious day.

the pics that made it to arfcom at 12:00:01 were pretty neat ..

wolfpack? i think had a "build party" at home with a nice looking young lady on the table

a table full of evil ,a bottle of liquor and some eye candy ,.

very nice

Posted: 9/14/2010 8:15:40 AM EDT

[#20]

Oh happy day!!!!

May the days of 50$ Glock magazines and flashhider-less ARs never return. I thought for sure they'd reimpose it.

Posted: 9/14/2010 8:21:35 AM EDT

[#21]

good riddens

Posted: 9/14/2010 8:22:08 AM EDT

[#22]

Both my ARs are neutered, but the Panther shorty will undergoing a change of looks this month.

I think I'll keep the Colt the way it is. (it's a Match Target, I don't want to mess with the barrel crown and I just don't have the $$$ right now to go to a high-end gunsmith)

Posted: 9/14/2010 8:29:44 AM EDT

[#23]

Black Rifle Disease - thankfully there is no cure.....

Sold everything I owned shortly after the sunset in support of ergonomic and caliber consolidation, I had safe queens with no ammo.

Posted: 9/14/2010 8:33:00 AM EDT

[#24]

I had a ban compliant Oly Arms AR15 that shot very well and a ban compliant Bulgarian SLR95. I miss the SLR95 and should have never sold it. I had it through the end of the BAN and converted it to a pistol grip and regular stock. Boy that was a pretty rifle and shot very well. I put thousands of rounds through it because ammo was so cheap. I remember in 1998 I could buy a 20rd surplus box of ammo from the fun shop for like $2. Our shooting trips would consist of thousands of rounds of ammo. Mag dumps are a thing of the past.

Posted: 9/14/2010 8:33:01 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Damn streets are red with bloooooooood!!!!!!

As we were all told they would be

Posted: 9/14/2010 8:35:40 AM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I remember there was some confusion about the actual date.
YAY it's over, oh wait, maybe we have another 24 hours.

Everybody was worried that they were going to pass AWB2 as soon as possible. I mean, I still worry about it, but I don't think anyone is glued to CSPAN in case they suddenly decide to pass one in the middle of the night.

A Zero Second term =AWB2

Uh - your buddy G.Bush the elder said he would have signed it had it reached his desk. Piece of garbage

Posted: 9/14/2010 8:44:53 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I remember there was some confusion about the actual date.
YAY it's over, oh wait, maybe we have another 24 hours.

Everybody was worried that they were going to pass AWB2 as soon as possible. I mean, I still worry about it, but I don't think anyone is glued to CSPAN in case they suddenly decide to pass one in the middle of the night.

A Zero Second term =AWB2

Uh - your buddy G.Bush the elder said he would have signed it had it reached his desk. Piece of garbage

"The elder" would be GHW Bush. You're "thinking" of GW Bush, our last President before the office temp took over.

Not to let facts get in the way, but Bush said that with the safety of knowing that the republican house and the republican senate would not put a renewal on his desk. Bush never actually lobbied for a renewal, and we can look at obama and health care for a shining example of what happens when a president lobbies for something he wants.

Posted: 9/14/2010 8:45:42 AM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I remember there was some confusion about the actual date.
YAY it's over, oh wait, maybe we have another 24 hours.

Everybody was worried that they were going to pass AWB2 as soon as possible. I mean, I still worry about it, but I don't think anyone is glued to CSPAN in case they suddenly decide to pass one in the middle of the night.

A Zero Second term =AWB2

Uh - your buddy G.Bush the elder said he would have signed it had it reached his desk. Piece of garbage

I know , those evil Republicans ... we deserve better Democrats don't we ...

Posted: 9/14/2010 8:47:00 AM EDT

[#29]

Gun control doesn't get any politician anywhere nowadays. I doubt we'll see another AWB anytime soon.

Posted: 9/14/2010 8:49:52 AM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
Come visit NY, where the AWB (ours is a mirror of the federal one) never went away!

All your Prebans!!!

We Want them!!!!

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:03:59 AM EDT

[#31]

I remember my VERY liberal aunt called me that day and wanted to know what my opinon was on the sunset

I told her that I was happier than hell and that I was eventually going to buy an un-neutered AK ( at the time I wasn't into ARs at all)

she was less than thrilled and couldn't understand why I NEEDED an ASSAULT RIFLE

sad thing is that her dad, my grandfather owns a gunshop where some of the top sellers are ARs and AKs

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:08:22 AM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
Come visit NY, where the AWB (ours is a mirror of the federal one) never went away!

No fucking joke.

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:11:12 AM EDT

[#33]

New York compliant AR

Fixed stock, muzzle brake

California compliant AR

Top loader

OR

Forgive me for not wanting to trade places with you poor bastards in Cali.

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:14:43 AM EDT

[#34]

I remember that day, I was at JRTC, maintaining accountability of my makeshift Arms Room.

Getting home and installing that collapsible stock made me sooooo happy!

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:14:49 AM EDT

[#35]

for some it was a day their guns became legal.

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:15:11 AM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
I remember my VERY liberal aunt called me that day and wanted to know what my opinon was on the sunset

I told her that I was happier than hell and that I was eventually going to buy an un-neutered AK ( at the time I wasn't into ARs at all)

she was less than thrilled and couldn't understand why I NEEDED an ASSAULT RIFLE

sad thing is that her dad, my grandfather owns a gunshop where some of the top sellers are ARs and AKs

I had a team mate (cycling) who was convinced that the sunset meant that anyone would be able to buy FA weapons over the counter. Streets running with rivers of blood and all that.

When I did my best to explain that the ban was mostly a "cosmetic" ban, he retorted with the usual " why would anyone need one of those things."

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:18:00 AM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
New York compliant AR

Fixed stock, muzzle brake
http://www.bushmaster.com/images/catalog/xm15_large/PCWA3X_14M4IZ_l.jpg

California compliant AR

Top loader
http://www.bushmaster.com/images/catalog/c15_large/AZC-C15RM4FT_l.jpg
OR

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a212/SVORay/riflesfull.jpg

Forgive me for not wanting to trade places with you poor bastards in Cali.

A loophole was discovered about 2 years ago in cali. You can now have a detachable magazine but it must be removed with a "tool". So comes along the bullet button, basically a depressed button for the mag drop, stick a .223 in there and it pops out. Yes a bullet is considered a tool

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:24:01 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
New York compliant AR

California compliant AR

Top loader
http://www.bushmaster.com/images/catalog/c15_large/AZC-C15RM4FT_l.jpg
OR

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a212/SVORay/riflesfull.jpg

Forgive me for not wanting to trade places with you poor bastards in Cali.

Dang, my eyes will never been the same after seeing those.

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:27:50 AM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
Come visit NY, where the AWB (ours is a mirror of the federal one) never went away!

And CT where ours hasn't sunset either.

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:28:33 AM EDT

[#40]

I remember it quite well...

I also won some ammo in a bet with a guy on ARFChat, who thought it would be renewed....

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:32:26 AM EDT

[#41]

How'd I miss this? too close to 9/11 I guess.

The ban sucked. I've probably bought 6 "assault weapons", another 6 hi cap semi auto pistols, and 200 magazines since the ban expired in 2004.

I learned my lesson the first time, NEVER AGAIN!

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:47:38 AM EDT

[#42]

Many new members joined around before the ban sunset. If not for that ban, I doubt Arfcom would be half of what it is today.

The AWB sunset was the biggest fear many of us had - it genuinely freaked a lot of members out.

These first 18 months of obama are similar to the intensity of those AWB days. A lot of anger and concern over what should be common sense - kind of bizarro world.

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:49:55 AM EDT

[#43]

This thread needs pick of evil non ban compliant guns

I post this pic in honor of telling the libs to go fuck themselves.

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:50:10 AM EDT

[#44]

There was some nice stuff available during the ban. The $250 Romanian SAR rifles were excellent buys, and easy to make "evil". Magazines for pistols were outrageous. Ammo was cheap. Go figure.