Reply #15: A lot of us were burned badly by the 1994 Feinstein law, [View All]

[benEzra]

and H.R.1022 would have been MUCH worse.

You do not have to physically confiscate my rifle to take away my use of it. Outlawing replacement magazines and spare parts for it (a la H.R.1022 et seq) would eventually disable it just as surely as confiscation would, which is precisely why the gun-control zealots are after magazine and spare parts bans. Placing harsh restrictions on "nonsporting" ammunition (using the thumbworn "sporting = hunting" canard) would deactivate the gun in the near term; I only have enough ammunition on hand to shoot about five USPSA matches before I am out of ammunition and would need to buy more.

And there is also the fact that there are a couple of guns that I want to buy, but I am not wealthy and have a special-needs kid with lots of medical bills, so the responsible thing is to put those gun purchases off a few years. I just hope they will still be readily available in the configurations I want when I am able to afford them.