Thread: Anyone know about any changes to the law concerning AR's??

Sounds like scare mongering to me. But I have heard something like that may be suggested.
But that is still a long way from been law.

Originally Posted by jim160

Sounds like scare mongering to me. But I have heard something like that may be suggested.
But that is still a long way from been law.

I have heard the rumour several times, but I think all of those times have been either on this or the other forum. As the rumour goes it is to be all semi autos rather than all ARs. And the reason given was that some of the drongo's involved currently cannot tell if a semi is e cat or a cat and are getting confused after the law suits and arguments. Practical issues will probably slam them into panic mode as can you imagine trying to locate EVERY semi auto 22 and make it E cat and issue the current owner an E endorsment? Rather than ask how many people out there have a semi auto, I would be inclined to ask " How many out there do not own a semi auto of any sort, shotgun, 22 or centrefire?" there cannot be very many as there are a LOT of 10/22s just to start with.....

On the upside, if they do make every semi an E cat then buying 25 or 50 round mags for your ruger will be easy, they will not bother making 7 shot mags for rifles and you can at least go back to the standard 10 or 30 shot mags on centrefire. It will completely negate the whole purpose of the E category to restrict access to "high capacity" (love the media description) as it will go back to pretty mush anyone can have one....as pretty much everyone will be E cat endorsed.

Downside is dont get burgled as the cops wont be able to turn up, they will all be too busy processing E cat license applications for the next millenia cos ths govt wont increase their budget to cope with the new rules.....

I think you will find that 22 semi autos will be left as is and not included.

Originally Posted by zimmer

I think you will find that 22 semi autos will be left as is and not included.

Most likely, as will semi shotguns, way too many duck shooters to piss off. Like I said it'll be too much work to go after all of them. I've said it before but when I go through the arms book at work there are an average of about 25% semi-autos, and we are more of a 'traditional' store with few semi's compared to Gun City or others. Even if the conservative estimate from the 90's is accurate, 1 million A cat firearms could easily mean 250,000 semi's to track down. I highly doubt they'd want to waste time going after all of them.