When the ban came along I had a smallish collection of firearms with which I could be lethal at about 50yds and dangerous to probably a couple of hundred given the capabilities of the average handgun cartridge. I now have a safe full of firearms that I can be lethal with at close to a mile and dangerous with at even longer range. If the ban were repealed there's no way I'd get rid of the rifle collection I now have, but I would restart my pistol collection.
But I'm now much less of a threat to society because my mind isn't being poisoned by proximity to pistols.
I never took up BP as it would only ever have been a substitute for what I had to give up. I saw rifles as a whole new venture

Lethal?? Interesting turn of phrase. Did that go down on the application as reason to own??