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Very true. I remember the regular shooters are the gun range buying AR-15s during the ban and also buying high cap magazines.It hasn't been done before. There never was a ban.
The AR-15s they bought didn’t have a couple of basically useless items like a flash suppressor or a bayonet lug. The high cap mags had been made before a certain date and cost a small fortune.
Before the ban most shooters had a very low opinion of the AR-15 based on the performance of the M-16 (a real assault weapon) in Vietnam. The shooters that bought the AR-15s said the problems had been basically eliminated and they worked fine and were very accurate.
The assault weapons ban actually make the AR-15 rifles and its clones popular.