Talk to me about buying gun parts during the assault weapons ban era

The AR specifically was not banned. A gun that contained a specified number of features was banned. Those features just happened to be features common on AR’s.

Instead of focusing on if you could buy a part during a ban. Join a 2nd Amendment group to protect our right in the first place.

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Buy a legal firearm and learn to shoot it.

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They all are according to the constitution

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For a new firearm owner, from your recent posts, you sure are interested in skirting the edges of legal vs illegal.

Buy a legal firearm and learn to shoot it.

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I say this from a perspective is I don’t want to accidentally buy something illegal. I’m trying to take personal responsibility.

I had considered buying a couple AR uppers to be able to swap around. My last thread taught me that if I have a SBR upper but no corresponding stamped or pistol lower, I’d be fricked on constructive intent. I would have never known that had i not asked. And it’s not like whoever I buy it from is going to give me a warning.

Hah...skinny trees is right, under the constitution it should all be legal. It’s all really stupid.

I was a kid back then and all I had was a 22 rifle. But to my understanding, you could still buy “banned” items like 30 round mags and rifles with “evil features” but they had to me made prior the ban date. So a “pre-ban” ar-15 and mags were legal to own and sell but if you wanted to buy a brand new AR-15 it would have to be in compliance with the ban and couldn’t have bayonet lug, threaded barrel, collapsing/ folding stock, etc.

However, most of the proposed bans I’ve seen from the Democrats lately wouldn’t allow for grandfathered guns like the 94 AWB did. You would either have to register them in the NFA, turn them in, or some proposals I’ve seen would allow you to keep them without registering but you can never sell them.

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last thread taught me that if I have a SBR upper but no corresponding stamped or pistol lower, I’d be fricked on constructive intent.

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... Just keep it on a lower.

Jesus.

I've never even seen an atf agent. Atc sure. Atf... Nope.

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As much as I know they would love to do this, I don’t see a chance in hell of this happening. Besides just the conservatives curb stomping democrats in Congress, covid and the riots have made any gun control a losing issue for a minimum of 5 years, IMO.

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I sure hope you're right, and I hope the demographics of new gun buyers rolled into the the Biden camp a fair bit.
That may sound crazy, but the thought is, it makes them a bit "soft" on support, and he's going to have to try not to frick with them too much. Of course, he's basically a single-term president anyway, no matter what, since he's going to be in his 80's by the time 2024 rolls around.

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I bought an AR-15 before the ban, and really back then, I was the only person that I know, that even had one. The Ruger Mini 14s were a little more popular, but still not common. I don't remember building AR-15s being a thing either. If you wanted one, you went and bought a Colt, because that's about the only choice you had

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As I remember, AR's were pretty doggone expensive, way more than they are now. Like you said, you had Colt, and I think Bushmaster was around.

Big thing going was the 7.62x39, you had cheap AK's and cheaper SKS's. And then the SKS made the cut when things got banned, so people fiddled around with them a lot. You'd have all the plastic Tapco stuff as people tried to make them into "black rifles" with plastic detachable magazines etc.

Like the AR's, another gun that wasn't really around then was the 1911. You had the Colts, and there was some stainless steel brand that wasn't so highly regarded, and then as I remember it was off to the various Hispanic guns. Llama's which looked similar but weren't, you had the Ballester Mollina's that weren't really, either, stuff like that. Norinco clones were around, people scoffed at them but they turned out to be good. I honestly don't remember there being that many other brands back then, and as I recall what WAS out there was expensive.

This thread reminded me, I needed to order a replacement SKS firing pin. I have a Yugo that the original buggered up on me, got it back before this all started back then.

There's a guy who makes spring-loaded pins that are supposed to be better, and the setup is drop in. Murray's.
it's $39 with free shipping from his own site, or over $50 plus shipping from Brownells

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As I remember, AR's were pretty doggone expensive,

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My Colt was well over 1,000 bucks when I bought it, and that was in the mid-eighties. That's probably like 2,500 now.

IIRC the ban didn't make criminals of existing owners. It included a grandfather clause.