The New Era of Gun Control Begins

[Zundfolge]

I think a lot of people get way too wrapped up in this, like I've been saying in every one of these threads. He is throwing red meat to his base and trying to agitate his opposition.

Absolutely. Thing is agitating the opposition to gun control is stupid for a Democrat so its either hubris on his part or he's purposely trying to prevent a Democrat (particularly Hillary) from succeeding him. As I've said before the 94 AWB hurt Gore and probably prevented him from being president. This crap is going to end up being a giant gift to Republicans and conservatives.

He has accomplished absolutely nothing with the new background check rules. It's status quo. More so for us in Colorado. The ATF can go to non-UBGC states and push their luck prosecuting an average joe for selling one/two guns a year. Good luck with that! My read of the rule puts a number of requirements on it anyway (substantial income must be derived from the activity to be considered a dealer).

As I said earlier in this thread, this is about setting the ground work for selectively and politically motivated prosecutions. So we'll see them used against activists and candidates that are threats to the Democrat power base (or some poor bastard like Joe the Plumber that embarrasses a Democrat on camera).

He could have tried to make semi-auto and/or standard cap mags NFA. He could have tried to change the definition of a firearm. He could said "turn them in" and we would have had 6-18 months of uncertainty while people debated on the internet while Libtards fantasized about kicking in doors and shooting us in the face. Yes, people (even "educated" people in gov) actually think he has these powers.

He knew he couldn't do any of that. This is almost an admission he's a lame duck.

So fuck him, but don't let this ruin your day/week.

We need to do two things. 1) revel in this because this is really the dying gasp of the gun control movement and 2) use this action to publicly agitate. Gun control is a losing prospect for Democrats and opposition to gun control is frankly greater today than even in the 1780s.

Don't let it ruin your day/week ... we should all be quietly thrilled that he's digging Hillary's grave.