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Originally Posted by Mavdog
what? "grandfathered" that would allow for commerce in regulated/prohibited items?
quite a fantasy.
keep on buying, the gun retailers like getting your money.
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you should quit speaking of things you know nothing about. Do some research. The various gun bans including assault weapon bans all allowed for a "grandfather clause" that stated that all previously imported/produced/owned weapons that existed prior to the ban are legal. Thus, it is common language in the gun industry to speak of a weapon as "pre-ban" or "post-ban" based on its production/importation date.
Besides, the "assault weapons" bans have all been easy to circumvent quite legally. The last (now expired) ban described the weapons and made certain characteristics illegal. The companies just removed the "objectionable" characteristics and kept on selling the ARs, AK47s, M14s, FALs, etc., etc.
All you had to do to have an "assault weapon" (the name assault weapon is funny and inaccurate because no military uses these "assault weapons" as they are semi automatic and the military weapons are fully automatic) is to remove the following features:
-magazine larger than 10 round capacity
-pistol grip
-threaded barrel end (or you can just weld the suppressor on the end of the threaded barrel which makes it legal as well)
-grenade launcher and grenade launcher attachment
-knife (bayonet, bayonet lug)
-barrel of a minimum length
-overall gun length of a certain length
-etc.
Anyway, the last ban was a joke. The guns kept flowing.
Anyway, every ban/restriction ever put in place included a "grandfather clause"