That's all good and well if you live in a place where you're actually allowed to own firearms. I would have loved to have stocked up on guns and ammo when the prices where low, but my local laws forbid it. I can only hope eventually we'll see a Supreme Court case where the constitutionality of things such as bans on large capacity magazines and very restrictive local laws against firearm ownership is decided once and for all.
I wouldn't hold my breath. People said the same thing when the National Firearms Act of 1934 did the following:
- Banned felons, who could previously own guns once 'off paper' from posessing them, restricting their access to weapons for self defense for life
- Created a national registry of fully automatic weapons, rifles with barrels shorter than 16", shotguns with barrels shorter than 18", and other fun stuff like suppressors
- Created the Federal Firearm License system
These were shocking at the time, when people could literally mail order a machinegun to their door step, but after being challenged in court and upheld people went about their business and stopped worrying about it. The Supreme Court decided that, because machineguns and suppressors benefit criminals more than honest people, they could be legally regulated and banned. By the same logic, they could ban ARs and AKs tomorrow if they had the votes in Congress and the Senate.
Maybe NYC should give rat hunting licenses and permission to use firearms to those who have them. This could clean up the vermin problem pretty quickly.
