FirstFreedom
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1. Post-Post-Ban
2. Post-Sunset
3. Almost normal but for the 89 import ban
What?
2. Post-Sunset
3. Almost normal but for the 89 import ban
What?
So what era did we end up deciding that we are in?
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MicroBalrog
New member
4. Almost normal but for the NFA, the GCA, the FOPA 1986 and the 1989 import ban.
PsychoSword
Moderator
ditto Microbalrog.
FirstFreedom
Moderator
I like that Microbalrog - agreed! 
Re: FOPA '86
Oh, yeah, baby! I want to return to the days before FOPA '86, when I had to sign a registration log to buy ammunition and no weapon that had ever seen military service in any war could be imported and you could be arrested if your flight made an unscheduled emergency landing in an anti state and...
But hey, you could get new auto sears for less than the price of a Lee-Enfield! (A nice SMLE was a $250-$300+ gun in an era when a decent used car could be bought for under $1k.) Most younger shooters these days have no idea how repugnant GCA '68 is, since the Firearm Owner's Protection Act repealed a lot of the most annoying bits while they were still playing with cap pistols. Yes, we need to re-open the registry, but to hear some folks talk, that's all there was to FOPA.
FOPA was the only major pro-gun-rights law I can recall being passed at the federal level in my lifetime.
But right now, we are almost at status quo ante. If we can axe the anti-import EO of '89, we'll be back to the salad days of '86-'89, possibly the coolest time in gun stores since '68. $250 Garands at Montgomery Ward's. Hakims for $99 at The Bullet Stop. (...and a golden era for those interested in FBPP's, BTW. I remember seeing new SIG AMT's, Steyr AUG's, Valmets and Galils and FNC's, oh my! If you had iwannacoolgunvirus, and I know I did at that time, it was grand.
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Oh, yeah, baby! I want to return to the days before FOPA '86, when I had to sign a registration log to buy ammunition and no weapon that had ever seen military service in any war could be imported and you could be arrested if your flight made an unscheduled emergency landing in an anti state and...
But hey, you could get new auto sears for less than the price of a Lee-Enfield! (A nice SMLE was a $250-$300+ gun in an era when a decent used car could be bought for under $1k.) Most younger shooters these days have no idea how repugnant GCA '68 is, since the Firearm Owner's Protection Act repealed a lot of the most annoying bits while they were still playing with cap pistols. Yes, we need to re-open the registry, but to hear some folks talk, that's all there was to FOPA.
FOPA was the only major pro-gun-rights law I can recall being passed at the federal level in my lifetime.
But right now, we are almost at status quo ante. If we can axe the anti-import EO of '89, we'll be back to the salad days of '86-'89, possibly the coolest time in gun stores since '68. $250 Garands at Montgomery Ward's. Hakims for $99 at The Bullet Stop. (...and a golden era for those interested in FBPP's, BTW. I remember seeing new SIG AMT's, Steyr AUG's, Valmets and Galils and FNC's, oh my! If you had iwannacoolgunvirus, and I know I did at that time, it was grand.
)MicroBalrog
New member
Tamara, that's why my post said 'GCA-68'.
FirstFreedom
Moderator
The 'salad days' of 86-89 - ha. Sounds like utopia (almost). Well, I was past cap guns, but I was in a cloudy haze of high school and college inebria - what is your age, Tam, if ya don't mind me askin?
Chipperman
New member
She's old enough to know better than to answer that question. 
No. 18 U.S.C. 922(o) applies whether or not the NFA is in effect.