marlinguy wrote on Nov 9
th, 2018 at 9:42am:
I don't fully understand the recent voter approved gun law changes in Washington, but like most they are sneaky and misleading so they're easy to pass.
As Aaron mentioned the antigunners have figured out how to peck away at gun ownership, and I too believe that the antique long rifles will be the last to be affected. People with no gun knowledge look at these guns and don't see them as scary. Where they look at a modern rifle in a tactical stock and don't care (or know) if it's a bolt action or semiauto. Either way it scares them.
Laws like what Wa. passed only succeed in making old collectible guns even more desirable, and taking away people's rights to own modern firearms. Considering one part of the new Wa. law was to raise the age limit to buy semiauto rifles to 21, I can't help but wonder if it will be fought in the courts? It most certainly violates a person's rights if they're 18-20 years old. They can vote, serve in the military, shoot those guns in the military, protect our country, but come home and not own a semiauto rifle.
Vall,
How long do you think it will be before the bureaucrats in Salem, OR decide to copycat the new WA State law?
Now that the non-shooting non-hunting bureaucrats in WA State have succeeded in re-classifying the Browning Semi-Auto 22 (and Remington 24), the Win 03 and Win 63, the Ruger 10-22, and all other semi-auto hunting rifles as "semiautomatic
assault rifles" , how do you figure that banning semi-auto rifles will make old singleshots more desirable?
Why won't hunters and shooters just go out and buy Henry, Rossi and other new leverguns?
I don't see that Militaria Collectors will suddenly make a switch over to singleshots either. Will the resale value of all those "sniper" scopes start falling?