"Big Bill" > wrote in message
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>>Are you sure? what exactly do you think happened to all those
>>guns? Were they thrown out? You just couldn't buy a *new*
>>one for awhile, but you certainly could still buy them. or you could buy
>>the
>>new version without the flash supressor, or with an attached
>>magazine.
>
> And if I don't want to buy used?
> And if I wanted the one with a flash suppressor and removable
> magazine?
> Or bayonet lug?
> Are you actually trying to say the so-called assault weapon ban wasn't
> there?

Nope, just didn't really stop anything from being sold or purchased.
You could still go buy an UZI, they just weren't being imported.

I am saying it had very little real effect, and was not a very big
deal.

It was all *marketing* (on both sides)
>>


>>The only laws being passed that have any real bearing
>>on your gun rights are the local/state ones. I live in
>>a "shall issue" state with regards to CW permits, so
>>I don't really feel to threatened. If I lived in NY I
>>would only be talking about gun rights in a historical
>>theoretical way.
>
> See the so-called assault weapon ban.
> As for not feeling threatened, it's obvious you need to thank a lot of
> people who *do* see their rights threatened.
>>
>>>>I have plenty of guns, and consider myself to be pretty blue.
>>>
>>> Consider who wants to change that.
>>>>
>>No one in my state has been tring to
>>do so, and we have not seen a Republican
>>govenor in twenty years, I object to the
>>"democrats want to take your guns away"
>>BS I keep hearing. I am one. I don't want
>>to take your guns away, get it?
>
> Thank you.
> Now, if you could talk to Schumer (he's from New York, ISTR) and get
> him to stop his attempts to end your rights, I'd appreciate it.
>>

Is he going to actually take your guns away?

Is he going to change the state constitution in WA?

I doubt either.

..
>
> The vast majority of gun grabbers (attempted or actual) are Dems.
>>
I do not see any running and winning on a gun control agenda,
who am I missing?