It funny really, if the AWB didn't happen in 1994 the AR-15 probably wouldn't even be all that popular today.

I was told I shouldn't have one. So I wanted one.

If the government doesn't want you to have it, then it MUST be good.

I was 4 years old when the AWB expired. Last year when I turned 18 I scraped together enough money from my fast food job so I could buy my first AR, a Ruger 556 for 399 dollars. I want to say how grateful I am to everyone that fought through the AWB and more recent pushes for gun control so that I would have this opportunity to exercise my rights. From the bottom of my heart, Thank You.

Reminder fellas. Every gun law is unconstitutional.

The ban primarily taught people how to maneuver around bans to get guns that were damn near identical in capabilities to those that were banned. As a non-American who kept up with American "gun culture" from the mid-90s onward, I always found that hilarious. It's a prime example of half-assing a law.

That law sold ARs and AKs to me. I was almost exclusively interested in turn of the twentieth century military rifles. Bush I and Bill Clinton got me into semi-autos.

Thank goodness they passed the ban...Saved all those multitudes of people that would have been killed with bayonets...(facepalm)

Hilary Clinton encouraged me to get mine,

So basically California compliant

I might be laughing at that dead pan "I'd rather shoot Goa'uld with 5.56 than 5.7”. maybe.

“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it--namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”

My dad was a gun smith and tool & die maker by trade. And I remember My dad was so pissed that day because he was getting parts kits and all types of stuff out of country. Within 3 weeks of the Bill my dad lost his ways of getting weapon parts. After my dad passed away in 2006 I took over his tools and firearms. My dad always made beautiful works of art when it came to firearms from the 1800's to modern day. I believe firearms are in are DNA and I see firearms as someone's work of art know mater what your thing is. Thank you all out there for keeping this alive all over the 🌎.

If you think the AWB was bad , try going thru the 80s watching all my older buddies convert their own class 3 and when the time came I no longer could .

I remember Used GI AR mags selling for $30+ dollars and Pre ban Glock mags for $99 each

Old enough to have experienced GCA, I can say that gun control has always influenced my decisions. Had there never been any gun control laws in my lifetime, I would probably have fewer guns and trust government more.

I never had an interest in AR-15's, up until the gunsalesman of the century opened his big yap. Now both I and my wife own one. I went retro and got an AR-15A2 with a 20" barrel, my wife went with a 16" carbine. I was hit with a touch of nostalgia, because an M-16A2 was my primary duty weapon while in the military in the 90's. I've since changed the furniture to all magpul and put a vortex 3X prism scope on it as a poor mans ACOG. Nowadays, I use it for coyote hunting during the winter... and I thought i didn't have a use for one. HA!

The ban did one thing and one thing only: Made the AR the most popular rigle in the US.

Some people were questioning the match content inclusion.

The Clinton AWB got me interested in gun laws. I grew up under the ban, and it had a profound influence on my opinion of gun laws. I absolutely hate the fact that AWB's ban guns based on cosmetic features. It's the absolute pinnacle of idiocy. You either ban guns (which I vehemently oppose), or you don't. Cosmetics don't alter core function, and that function doesn't really dramatically alter lethality. Guns which can take advantage of the rate of fire allowed by semi-auto actions, are correspondingly lower power in cartridge to put more of those rounds on target.