Panic buyer from Seattle

I've been tempted to get a HiPoint carbine and a High Tower bullpup stock for at least a year. On December 20, I woke up to a Seattle Times headline that the state government was planning to enact an "assault weapon" ban this year, which put an end to my torpor and procrastination. Within an hour I had ordered a 9 mm carbine.

I was tempted to get a 10 mm (or more likely both calibers) since I used to have a couple of 10 mm pistols and still have all the reloading gear. I would do that if I wasn't too lazy to hunt, since at short range (100 yards at least, which would suit the woods of Western Washington) a 10 mm bullpup would be a hilarious but adequate "deer rifle." Since I prefer to buy meat at the grocery store or farmers' market and will use this gun mainly for plinking (and perhaps SHTF, if the Cascadian Subduction Zone cuts loose in the next decade), the 9 mm seemed wisest. Also, I hate chasing 10 mm brass.

OTOH, if I lived in the South and had access to hog hunting, I would definitely get a 10 mm and load it to the gills with Longshot powder and the toughest bullet I could get to cycle reliably!

I was slow to go to the FFL after it came in from the distributor (waiting for another gun to arrive from a Gunbroker transaction so I didn't have to make two trips to fill out 4473s), so my carbine is in "jail" for about another week. Hopefully that delay won't come back to bite me. Technically, it would be possible for the legislature to rush the AWB bill through quickly enough to kill my purchase, but that's pretty unlikely (I hope!), although they are moving the bill faster than I expected.

The bullpup stock and a Vortex Sparc2 to go on it arrived a couple of days ago.

edit: Other guns I have include a Ruger 10/22, three Ruger MkIIs, a High Standard Sport King, a High Standard High Sierra revolver, a S&W K22 (pre-model 17), a Colt Police Positive Special .32-20, a Bersa 380CC, a Dan Wesson Pointman9, a Ruger GP100 .357, a Rossi R92 .357, a Ruger Redhawk .43 Magnum and a Springfield Range Officer .45. Sold off a couple of EAA 10 mm pistols because they were aggravating my flinch.