The US if anything would be PRODUCING Type 56 and 81 rifles as well as ammo for the PRC.
As for the AWB...never happened in my opinion in the T2k timelines. Congress would have had to many other things going on, and I don't think Bush would have lost to Clinton. We would have been hard pressed to produce enough M-16s, but in any event, most states serious about preparing to face nukes would have been passing out M-16s to State Guards (the militia) like crazy. At a minimum, Texas, Virginia, Colorado, Alaska, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana, Arizona, New Mexico, and Tennessee would (I think) have been buying and issuing M-16s to civilians. You would have a HUGE run on available AR-15s that would have been unreal.
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