WHAT ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN?

Oh! The one that expires tonight? The one that had so many holes in it, it looked an awful lot like a beam scan of a longterm solvent huffers brain? Oh, OK...that one.
The one that banned high capacity magazines...unless they were pre-banhigh capacity magazines, which were present like tribbles at every gun show I've
ever been to in the last 10 years.
The one that banned weapons with folding stocks, muzzle suppressors, pistol grip stocks, etc.? Yeah, that one.
The one where you could go to a gun show and buy a no frills AK-47, SKS, FAL or similar rifle, walk to the next table and buy a folding stock...then to the next and the next
until you had all the ingredients to take home to your bunker and make your very own "banned" assault rifle, and unless you lost your mind and shot up the neighborhood, no one was the wiser?
Yeah, that one.
The one that took guns "strictly" designed for killing peopleout of the marketplace (right...).
Here's a news flash: anygun can kill anything, if the user is so inclined.
The one that congress didn't even bother to address beyond saying they weren't going to address it because they already knew they didn't have the votes to preserve it?
Yeah,that one.
There are so many weapons in this country, changing hands, being stolen, sold under the table and passed down, found and not turned in,it would be impossible to account for even half of them.
The only benefit I can see over the ten years the ban has been in effect is an increase in revenue for gun dealers selling "accessories".
How much you wanna bet the cost of a "fully equipped" AK-47 is gonna jump 15 to 25 % to offset the loss?

[Listening to: I Know Your Little Secret - The Afghan Whigs - Up In It (4:22)]