What's the next shoe to drop in Federal legislation?

[Spats McGee]

Next year, nobody should care what Obama has to say....Lame Duck with a capital "L".

That's exactly what I fear makes him dangerous. He won't have another election at stake and I think he'll every bit (or very nearly) of any political capital that he has left to push 2A restrictions.

 

[yugorpk]

I dont think he has any political capital left. That all got burned up when he rammed the health care act through and he lost Congress. Even his own party members distance themselves from him in the election year. There is pretty much nothing he can do by E.O. that will stick. He can make speeches and scare people and he can ban some categories of guns and ammo temporarily from import. Thats about it.

 

[Spats McGee]

I hope you're right, yugorpk.

 

[jerkface11]

He already did everything he could think of. And it just amounted to defining what "in the business" means.

 

[X-Rap]

A couple attacks here like what they've seen in France and we might have the game changed on us.
If BHO and his crew can shift blame to the presence of guns in this country rather than the lack of control on our borders like they tried to do under Operation Gunrunner there might be some will in congress to "do something".
I believe any terror attack here involving small arms will be done with guns either stolen from citizens or bought legally but otherwise perfectly legal which will put pressure on the gov. for further restrictions.
Remember "never let a crisis go waste".

 

[chipcom]

That's exactly what I fear makes him dangerous. He won't have another election at stake and I think he'll every bit (or very nearly) of any political capital that he has left to push 2A restrictions.

Stick a fork in him...Obama is done. The only thing that we need worry about regarding that lame duck is some catastrophic event that either turns the GOP full wuss or gives him an excuse to claim emergency powers.

 

[Deanimator]

A couple attacks here like what they've seen in France and we might have the game changed on us.

Don't bet on it... unless you consider lines out the door to buy AR-15s a "game change".

Memorize:

• Police have no legal duty to protect individuals.
• Police have no legal liability when they fail to protect individuals.
• Police have virtually no physical ability to protect individuals.

Every day more and more people are coming to the realization that police protection of individuals is a fairy tale. Acquisitions of concealed carry credentials and firearms is the proof of it.

Obama can issue all of the extra-legal Fuehrerbefehln he wants. When ISIS gets going here, NOBODY'S going to pay him any more mind than they do to a wino arguing with a lamp post.

 

[X-Rap]

Sorry, I don't have that much faith in my fellow man. I see the majority begging the gov to keep them safe going to their malls, stadiums and restaurants.

 

[Deanimator]

Sorry, I don't have that much faith in my fellow man. I see the majority begging the gov to keep them safe going to their malls, stadiums and restaurants.

It's not "faith". It's observation.

The polling data is going in exactly the opposite direction.

They can see just how "protected" the people of Paris were.

People are rejecting the lies in growing numbers.

 

[Warp]

Nothing.

Same as every single other time people have asked this question going back to 2007-8 leading up to the election

NOTHING

Please stop acting like there is any reason whatsoever to believe we will get any new legislation.

 

[Warp]

That's exactly what I fear makes him dangerous. He won't have another election at stake and I think he'll every bit (or very nearly) of any political capital that he has left to push 2A restrictions.

Who the heck cares? We already know he has very little political capital and he has already tried, many times, and failed, many times, to push through restrictions.

POTUS is an executive position, and as such, can not give us new legislation.

We need to stop acting like the NRA, screaming the sky is falling at every opportunity.

It's okay to continue to be proactive and aware of all of the very real enemies to Rights and Liberties that are out there WITHOUT crying wolf every 6 months indefinitely.

 

[barnbwt]

What we should be doing when we are aware of our opponents' weakness of impotence, is taking their initiative from them instead of waiting for 'the next shoe to drop' in the first place.

TCB

 

[jim in Anchorage]

the main reason i started this thread was to get a better handle on where people stand now.

I have met a great deal of gun owners, several of whom are friends I shoot with regularly, that have no problem with a UBC law. This wasn't always the case but it seems to me some of them have changed their tune over the years and i was curious if this was a larger trend or if it was something unique to my gun owning friends.

Plus you have all those polls people cite that say something to the effect of "most gun owners actually support UBC laws." It's tough to get a true temperature sometimes and that's all I was trying to do here. Admittedly, I don't know what to believe anymore.

Ask your shooting friends how they expect UBC to be enforced without 100% registration. That's the 800lb gorilla in the room no one seems to see.