If you're living in Oregon they just passed ballot measure 114, which means that you can't have magazines with more than 10rds after a specific date, and also that the cops (Like the notoriously fascist Portland Police Bureau) get to decide who can and cannot own a gun.
But there's a loophole; Get your magazines before 114 goes in to effect and you can keep them, although you are required to prove that you bought them before the day of doom.
So if you might every want to get an AR, or just feel like it, it might be worth it to pick up a bunch of mags now and box them up with the receipt just in case.
Word. When it comes to weapons the Israelis make extremely solid, well designed, well built shit. They're evil but so is pretty much any other gun manufacturer you can buy from, unless you can get NORINCO shit where you live. Buying weapons really shows what "no ethical consumption under capitalism" means. If you're paying money for guns and the guns aren't stolen your money is going to terrible, terrible people.
That's pretty much where I stand. I don't fault anyone for avoiding them, but 1, I don't put much weight in consumptive ethics, and 2, most American gun manufactures are arguably just as gross.
I care a lot less about aesthetics than whether something is effective against fash and gaybashers. From what I've read IWI Z-15s punch above anything else in their price bracket and don't seem to have the QC issues most stuff under $800 does nowadays. But a person could usually do perfectly fine with an MPR or M&P15 or build kit if they don't feel comfortable with an IWI.