I actually thank Bill Clinton. Prior to 1994, I owned NO semi auto Battle Rifles, and at that time, neither the wife or I owned any handguns (we had before).
Now, I own 7 Semi Auto Military rifles and between the 2 of us, 6 handguns. Plus several other bolt action military rifles I've acquired.
If they hadn't gone and banned them, I would still be procrastinating.
ETA - You know the outcome of FOPA '86, when further manufacture/importation of machine guns was banned. Yup, the number of registered machine guns almost doubled in less than 6 months. And prior to that, they had 52 years to accumulate about 100,000 NFA firearms. In the 6 months, 90,000 more were registered.