So, when can we...

[E Pluribus Unum]

With all the stuff that has gone our way in recent years, I wonder what the time table is on most of our "wish lists".


What do you think is a reasonable time table for the following wish items:


A. Throw away our bullet buttons and have a real AR-15

B. Apply for our "shall issue" CCW or lawfully LOC.

C. Buy standard capacity magazines in a gun store.

D. Buy a handgun that is NOT on the roster.

E. Move to a free state and build a full-auto receiver that was manufactured after 1986 that does not cost $10k.

[colossians323]

two weeks

[E Pluribus Unum]

two weeks

There's always someone....

If I got all the items on that list.... I would pinch myself.

[colossians323]

If I got all the items on that list.... I would pinch myself.

I would pinch you too

[yellowfin]

B. Is the closest, A. next closest.

[the_quark]

A. Throw away our bullet buttons and have a real AR-15

Five years, maybe a little longer. We need to get a scrutiny reading before we begin this case.

B. Apply for our "shall issue" CCW or lawfully LOC.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say we have effectively shall-issue CCW by this time next year. This is my "low probability prediction that if I make it I can beat everyone over the head with it later, but if it fails hopefully no one will remember it." My more realistic appraisal is two years, but I think there's a chance that whole house of cards just collapses.

C. Buy standard capacity magazines in a gun store.

"In a gun store?" Maybe never. I think we'll have a route to do it, somehow, within three years. I'd hope we'd have gun stores in seven (it's so long because it's a relatively low priority).

D. Buy a handgun that is NOT on the roster.

Well, this one depends on Nordyke being completed, so that won't be in your or my lifetime.

Seriously, I guess four years? Maybe sooner if another case ends up raising the issue.

E. Move to a free state and build a full-auto receiver that was manufactured after 1986 that does not cost $10k.

Barring a political solution (Congress overturning NFA), ten years, at least. Will we have enough pro-gun support in Congress to overturn NFA before that? Political predictions aren't my specialty, but I'm skeptical.

[stphnman20]

For the BB, Never..
CCW, Never..
Buy Standard mags, Never..

[Vbp6us]

For the BB, Never..
CCW, Never..
Buy Standard mags, Never..

Um...there are open cases for CCW so that one is in the works.

[b.faust]

Five years, maybe a little longer.

Ouch.

My biggest gripe about the BB is the fact that when i want to take a class, I generally have to go out of state.
Yes I know I can run featureless, but I don't want to.

At least it's good to know it's on the radar, but wow....5 years...

[Bizcuits]

CCW, Never..

Definitely wrong on that one... Several counties are slowly becoming Shall issue.

[beauregard]

A. Throw away our bullet buttons and have a real AR-15

B. Apply for our "shall issue" CCW or lawfully LOC.

C. Buy standard capacity magazines in a gun store.

D. Buy a handgun that is NOT on the roster.

E. Move to a free state and build a full-auto receiver that was manufactured after 1986 that does not cost $10k.

Not while Meg Whitman is Governor.

[POLICESTATE]

Definitely wrong on that one... Several counties are slowly becoming Shall issue.

That's only because of who is sheriff there is it not? We need a change to the law or a court ruling in our favor.

[wildhawker]

stphnman20 has brilliantly locked up a roster spot in the CGN "uninformed peanut gallery" all-pro 2011 team.

[wash]

Virtual shall issue is a slam dunk. It will happen, the only question is how long it will take. I'm optimistic.

The roster may stick around but it might become so inclusive and so easy for a manufacturer to get their product on that it doesn't matter. I think this will happen in late 2011 or 2012.

Fighting for standard capacity magazines does not help any other issues at this time so I have no clue when they will get to it. 7 years seem like too long.

Like the roster, I think the "assault weapon" ban might survive with an opened up registration and dropped locked transport and lending parts of the law.

Machine guns, maybe never. But I think within 10 years CA will allow people to own SBR's and SBS's. Silencers might even be legal again.

[stitchnicklas]

all will happen after i move to a free state...