California ban on high capacity magazines declared unconstitutional

[popeyespappy]

Nah, just barely remembered information. It was an AK something.

Since I vaguely remembered some guy with a rifle outside the White House I went ahead and looked it up. It looks like you are remembering a couple of different incidents.

October 29, 1994 – Francisco Martin Duran, took a semi-automatic rifle and fired 29 rounds at the White House before being tackled to the ground and arrested.

February 8, 2001 – Robert W. Pickett, of Evansville, Indiana, an accountant who had been fired from the IRS thirteen years earlier, fired shots outside the White House fence and was then shot in the knee and arrested by Secret Service agents.

The perp used an SKS during the incident in 94 when Clinton was president. The guy in 2001 just used a 5 shot revolver.

On a side note, unmodified SKS rifles were not affected by the 94 assault weapons ban. They would also pass muster on most proposed bans based on feature sets. An unmodified SKS uses a fixed 10 round magazine. It has no pistol grip, threaded barrel or any of the other commonly included features proposed for most bans.

The Clinton administration did ban the import of surplus SKS rifles in 94 by executive order, but they weren’t covered under what is commonly referred to as the assault weapons ban. If the US does implement another ban based on a combination of features, rifles like the eastern block manufactured SKS and US made M1 Garand are probably going to suddenly become a lot more popular.