I don't see it happening in 2009, at least. Consider this:
HR1022 (which we should call HR 10/22, since that's all we'll have left if it gets passed!
) was introduced in February of 2007, and as you can see here:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.01022: - it hasn't even made it on the subcommittees calendar. So it's basically been idling at the first of 13 steps to law for almost two years! (see:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/basics/?style=legis) ALSO, there's no "filter" on what actually gets to the first step, and there have been some pretty ridiculous pieces of legislation introduced that never see the light of day.
Now, obviously, even our slow and lumbering congress can sometimes run a bill through on a rail, like the Wall St. bailout. But as many others have stated, this issue is the least pressing of many to most Americans.
Clearly, it's in our nature to be paranoid about something as serious as this, but if you took some of the posts on this forum as fact then you'd probably expect Obama to be inaugurated, pray to the east, chop off a baby's head, pull out a quill pen and sign an Executive Order in blood to ban assault weapons on top of the Qur'an
Remember, he's still a puppet like all those before and after - and the fact that his anti-gun literature was removed from Change.gov is comforting to me. He and his handlers know how much political capital his party had to burn to get to this point and I highly doubt they will throw it away on something that proved to be ineffective in hindsight.
So, in summary, in the remote chance it were to happen, it won't be for a couple of years, at which point I should have my long-backorder'd AR-15 upper
And if you really care and want to make sure that it doesn't happen? Join the NRA and write to your state representatives. It doesn't have to be out of our hands!
Tangent: Maybe I live in the wrong part of the country, but the Democrats I know could give a rat's ass about gun control. To me, there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the vilification of these supposed "antis" - maybe because I don't know any? Maybe because I was 13 when the original ban was passed and only owned a bb gun?