"Shooting Wire" article

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The Shooting Wire is an online publication that keeps track of what's going on in the shooting sports. It issues updates twice a week, on Wednesday and Friday, IIRC. Today's issue had an editorial regarding guns, politics, and the Presidential candidates. An excerpt follows; the full article can be read here. The editorial is toward the bottom of the page under the heading "A New Horse Race." No huge surprises, but I thought it was worth a read, especially if you own an "evil black rifle."

The second point that has been somewhat overshadowed by the Palin frenzy is Barack Obama specifically bringing up "assault weapons" in his coronation speech in Denver Thursday evening:

"The reality of gun ownership may be different for hunters in rural Ohio than for those plagued by gang violence in Cleveland, but don't tell me we can't uphold the Second Amendment while keeping AK-47s out of the hands of criminals."

With that simple statement Obama blew up two years of Democratic Party glad-handing on gun issues, their insistence throughout the primary campaign that either guns were not on the table or that Dems had "seen the light" and, following Heller, we could all Rodney King it and learn to live together.

Coupled with the choice of Joe Biden, another "F" NRA rating and one of the architects of the 1994 Clinton Gun Ban, Obama's acceptance statement, made to the cheering, now-in-total control Far Left wing of the Democratic Party, tells us exactly what's on the Democratic agenda for January 2009 - a new Assault Weapons Ban with teeth.

This time, no sunset clause, no loopholes, no lookalike guns allowed...don't believe me? Go read the text of H.R. 6257, "Assault Weapons Ban Reauthorization Act of 2008," introduced last June:

"It shall be unlawful for a person to manufacture, transfer, or possess [emphasis mine] a semiautomatic assault weapon."

Yeah, there's a grandfather clause, but don't expect that to survive an Obama tsunami. The left wing of the Democratic Party has dreamed of door-to-door confiscations of guns since Nelson T. "Pete" Shields outlined the gun control agenda in 1976 in the New Yorker Magazine:

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I believe this was actually a quote from the Michael Bane blog. If you want to know what's up in the gun business, you need to read the Bane Blog and subscribe to the shooting wire.

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The Shooting Wire is an online publication that keeps track of what's going on in the shooting sports. It issues updates twice a week, on Wednesday and Friday, IIRC. Today's issue had an editorial regarding guns, politics, and the Presidential candidates. An excerpt follows; the full article can be read here. The editorial is toward the bottom of the page under the heading "A New Horse Race." No huge surprises, but I thought it was worth a read, especially if you own an "evil black rifle."

Thanks for the link. I'm already starting black rifle account, I hope it doesn't take too long to purchase.