GITN SPECIAL - POST AWB BLOODBATH WATCH, DAY 1

[21stcentprogressive]

Hopefully we are all braced for the bloodbath beginning today now that the ban is expired and banned weapons are flooding the streets. Please post the many stories that are likely to occur regarding the coming massacre to this thread. Rules are below, slightly modified from the usual GITN.

1 - Post only stories where the weapon used to commit the blood-bath is an assault weapon as defined by the recently expired assault weapons ban and is legally transferred to a civilian after September 12, 2004; the story must be clear in the configuration of the weapon and the transfer date to determine it was indeed at one point banned; news stories are not always clear on this point, as in the case of the DC area snipers who used a weapon that was not banned, so please use caution; the definition of assault weapon under the ban was:
Any on this list
Norinco, Mitchell, and Poly Technologies Avtomat Kalashnikovs (all models);
Action Arms Israeli Military Industries UZI and Galil;
Beretta Ar70 (SC-70);
Colt AR-15;
Fabrique National FN/FAL, FN/LAR, and FNC;
SWD M-10; M-11; M-11/9, and M-12;
Steyr AUG;
INTRATEC TEC-9, TEC-DC9, AND TEC-22 ;
revolving cylinder shotguns such as (or similar to) the Street Sweeper and Striker 12.
Any firearm produced with more than one of the following features
Rifles
Folding/telescoping stock
Protruding pistol grip
Bayonet mount
Threaded muzzle or flash suppressor
Grenade launcher
Pistols
Magazine outside grip
Threaded muzzle
Barrel shroud
Unloaded weight of 50 ounces or more
Semi-automatic version of a fully automatic weapon
Shotguns
Folding/telescoping stock
Protruding pistol grip
Detachable magazine capacity
Fixed magazine capacity greater than 5 rounds
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[Wickerman]

1. *sigh* Lets just make this a running thread

'kay?

No need to have daily threads until the streets are at least ankle deep.

[21stcentprogressive]

4. Okay, but according to all the news stories and editorials I read,

the streets should be knee-deep by tomorrow

[Wickerman]

5. Really? Most of what I hear is the Rah! Rah!

of the Frist followers - or, the echo of the opinion of most Gungeonites - it really isn't going to make much difference.

[mosin]

7. I'm not...

a Frist follower. :)

But I agree that it won't make a bit of difference. I can buy cheap 13 round magazines for my G23 instead of limited 10 round magazines. That's about all it means to me. That and the general principle of the thing.

[Wickerman]

8. yeah, but is that ever gonna be enough? Soon it'll be 15 rounds

and next thing you know, you'll be mainling suitcase nukes and whatever game you can find won't be edible 'til the year 9974.

I contend that AW are only gateway weapons.

[mosin]

9. "gateway weapons"

GLOCK makes 15 round .40 magazines, but they fit the full-length grip of a G22. They fit in the shorter-gripped G23, but stick out a bit at the bottom. I've also seen rather silly looking 29 round .40 GLOCK magazines that stick way out of the bottom. I expect we'll see a lot more things like that now that the lid has been taken off.

I personally want a high capacity drum magazine for my little Ruger 10/22 plinking rifle. :)

[Wild Bill]

2. I am patiently waiting on the ice cream truck.

I can get a new Uzi from my local Ice Cream dealer right?

[slackmaster]

3. NO! Not the Ice Cream Man!!!

The Ice Cream Man sells fireworks on the side.

If you want a gun you'll have to flag down the Snap-On Tools truck.

:dunce:

[mosin]

6. Bayonettings

I'm particularly interested in hearing about any bayonet attacks.

[-..__...]

10. Just like the antis have been predicting.

I've been in the process of constructing a few bayonet dummies and training course in my back yard. So far the neighbors haven't complained, but I expect that to change once I start disturbing their slumber with my war cries of

Yaaaaaarrrrrrrgggghhhh

as I charge a defensele bale of hay.

[skippythwndrdog]

11. As soon as someone is lugged to death or suppressored to death

I'll contribute the story. That includes threaded to death, folded to death, pistol gripped to death, etc.

[Renaissance]

12. Now are the rifles themselves going to flood the streets...

Or just the bayonet lugs and the folding stocks?

I'm very disappointed. I haven't yet seen the river of blood we were promised. Or the "assault weapon" flood.