Under Siege is a movie with lots of gunfights on a battleship, in which I don't remember anybody being concerned about ricochets. Steven Seagal plays the ship's cook, who's the toughest SEAL in the world, but he's been busted to cook for being too badass to be a SEAL, or something. I just assumed t...

Welcome aboard. When I was in the Army (1976-79), we didn't see a pistol in Basic Training, it was just M16A1. And are you saying that Under Seige is not 100% technically plausible? Which would make sense for the Army. After all, you used M-16's. Whereas Navy we just got to play with the small guns...

Oh, so it's referring to the old "Assault weapon" ban, the one that is now expired. And that's why I also see "post-ban"

That'd make sense.

Thanks smartass. I can google things just fine. I was hoping to get a quick five minute answer and not have to spend hours looking around. Isn't that the point of coming to a message forum like this? If I just googled up every question or thought I had, then posting on here would be pointless. Altho...

Probably a caching problem with your browser.

OK, So I am a noob.
What does Pre-ban mean? I've seen it pop up on websites like armalite.com and such when looking at AR-15s or AR-10s (mildly considering one for my next gun purchase)
So what does it mean?

Hello. I'd like to introduce myself. I'm a mostly new Gun owner here in Minneapolis. Little history, at least where it pertains to guns. I am ex-military, but Navy, so we didn't really have much to do with guns. We shot a pistol for proficiency in boot camp one day, and that's it. Not much use for g...