Thread: From E-Cat to A-Cat?

Originally Posted by dogmatix

7 rounds made it impossible to keep your prized WW2/Korean War era M1 Garand in anywhere near original spec unlesss you had it on E-Cat.

Bayonet lug (since when did mass killers have a rifle bayonet as a key weapon of choice?) = gone
8 round mag/clip (whatever) - gone

Lol as if anyone going on a rampage is going to choose a 4 foot long rifle that weighs 12 pounds

Originally Posted by gimp

Why the hell did they settle on 7 rounds anyway? It's so incredibly inconvenient, almost nobody makes a 7 round mag. 10rd A-cat limit pleeeease.

Legally, you can use a magazine that looks like it can hold 10 rounds, it just can't physically hold more than 7 rounds.

Originally Posted by Recoil

Legally, you can use a magazine that looks like it can hold 10 rounds, it just can't physically hold more than 7 rounds.

Fraid not until the new legislation is clear anyway. The old rules stated "hold more than 7 rounds OR appears to hold more than 7 rounds"

Yes you're right. Thanks for clarifying.

Originally Posted by mikee

Fraid not until the new legislation is clear anyway. The old rules stated "hold more than 7 rounds OR appears to hold more than 7 rounds"

So whats the story with Lever Actions that hold like 10-12 rounds?

Step 3: 30 round isn't really any more inherently dangerous anyway.
Step 4: Make 30 round mags require a license to buy
Step 5: lol unenforceable and it's not hard to make mags, and it'd be a joke to smuggle them in, I haven't had my luggage inspected in any way in the last 30+ trips through customs except once when I said I had dirt on my boots and they gave them a wash for me.

I think there is a stronger correlation between mental instability and mass shootings, rather than AR's. They all use different guns, but what do the vast majority of them have in common? Psychological issues and the meds they're taking. That leaves you with two courses of action - do nothing and just accept that shit happens, the cats out of the bag. Or attempt to come up with a way to reduce the chances of a disturbed individual going postal or harming people in other ways. going by raw statistics, mass shooting deaths are a tiny proportion of violent deaths, it barely registers in the grand scheme of things.

Reducing the freedoms of a blanket and poorly-defined "mentally ill people" is just an incentive for them not to seek treatment though. It's tricky.


E: amongst other problems but I'm too lazy to talk about this one right now

Don't make any rash decisions is all ill say...

Cops had a go at banning AR, AK imports pre Aramoana I think.

Originally Posted by Beavis

Cops had a go at banning AR, AK imports pre Aramoana I think.

Correct, it got overturned in court and then Aramona happened.

Does anybody have a "semi concrete" view as to whether the likes of a a 10-22 or SKS in drag style stock is going to become all evil and shit with the new law?

Originally Posted by Cyclist

Does anybody have a "semi concrete" view as to whether the likes of a a 10-22 or SKS in drag style stock is going to become all evil and shit with the new law?

I'm just guessing but I have to guess "almost definitely" given the silly relentless ban agenda



e: they should be banned for being terrible anyway

Originally Posted by gimp

they should be banned for being terrible anyway

Went and had a fiddle on the ATI / Choate pistol grip stocks and just about barfed on the floor, soooooo depressing

Left with an Anschutz RX22 for only about $300 more - its a pretty damn fun gun (now to be know as and referred to as the the coonsterminator)



Representative group shot with the cheapest ammo available = might be a keeper

just want the cheapest way to get my e (that can be sent back to a if it goes to shit)