Even Slate Admits AWB is DOA

[T Slothrop]

Interesting post on a generally extremely liberal site:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...ing_up_on_the_assault_weapon_ban_edition.html

EDIT: A lot of folks do not seem to be reading the article. While it does admit that Feinstein's assault weapons ban is toast, it goes on to plainly state that the price will be "universal background checks" and the mag capacity restrictions. Nothing to celebrate. Merely an insight into how the antis are shifting strategy.

 

[Walkalong]

Do not let up. It isn't over.

 

[T Slothrop]

Absolutely not.

The same article goes on to present the private sale ban as almost a done deal.

 

[Silent Bob]

And it says they are still after magazine capacity limits, which is what I care about most though I have fought against everything the antis are wanting. I DO NOT want to go back to Klinton-era 10-round mags.

Not to mention as NY and soon to be Massachusetts shows, the antis will not always be placated by a 10-round limit.

Unless you want to own a 17-round-capable Glock 17 or 19-round-capable Springfield XDM or whatever that you can only load 7 measly rounds in after the NEXT mass-shooting (and it will happen), we better figure out ways to stop this crap now.

 

[r1derbike]

It's the calm, before the storm. Double time it with the letters, calls, and emails to your state and D.C. reps. It isn't over. It will NEVER be over.

 

[InkEd]

Do not be an idiot. They are just getting a second wind!

 

[DMK]

Dewey Wins!

Don't count your blessings yet.

Watch for sneaky politics. Watch for amendments tacked on other bills.

 

[mokin]

I never take Slate seriously. I'll keep writing my representatives. I really don't want to have to deal with 10 round magazines or the "energized" antis with even a small victory.

 

[Ignition Override]

Any potential magazine limit to ten rounds might later be changed.

Wouldn't a ban on personal FTF transactions -family or otherwise- be much more difficult to later abolish?

 

[goon]

Some states require transfers of all guns through a dealer. PA requires all handguns to go through a dealer except with immediate family.
Honestly, I never felt that my rights were infringed there. I carried legally and bought a handgun with an instant check on my 21st birthday. I would worry more about magazine capacity bans than FFL transfers.

But I am opposing both in my letters and emails.

 

[Hacker15E]

FWIW, that article at Slate is summarizing articles written by the NYT, Washington Post, WSJ, and HuffPo.

 

[parsimonious_instead]

I honestly feel like there was a bit of post-Heller and post-MacDonald euphoria that led us to let our guard down.
It's quite perverse - all the politicians have to do is stand around the legislative chambers, craft a bill and pass it.
We have to expend time, money and energy to prevent them from passing, or to repeal or modify if it does.

 

[Loc n Load]

2A

I have been involved in the 2A struggle since the 60's...have watched the tides ebb and flow.....we are in a much better world now for gun owners than we were in 94.....public opinion has changed and our ability to communicate is a world apart from where we were in 94.....keep up the pressure on your legislators....I favor NO compromise.....none of these measures other than a mandatory "no plea bargain" sentencing guideline for criminals using firearms, a complete restructuring of our mental health system and the enforcement/prosecution of the myriad of gun laws already on the books is going to have any effect. Stay the course.

 

[481]

I honestly feel like there was a bit of post-Heller and post-MacDonald euphoria that led us to let our guard down.
It's quite perverse - all the politicians have to do is stand around the legislative chambers, craft a bill and pass it.
We have to expend time, money and energy to prevent them from passing, or to repeal or modify if it does.

Sometimes I feel like that, too. When I get to feeling like that, I just write a whole bunch of letters to my reps and let 'em "feel the love".

Of course, it's kind of hard "to have our guard up" against these tragic instances since we have no control over them. All the 'other side' needs to do is wait for an excuse (tragedy) to exploit for the perpetuation of their goal- that's easy enough and requires little energy.

In the end, the cost of our 2A freedom is the eternal vigilance of the messed up folks who make up our sorry excuse of a government.

The wolves will always be at the door.

 

[hso]

The front has shifted to magazine bans, universal background checks, and universal registration. The fact that the appear to be yielding on the firearms doesn't mean the battle is over. It has just shifted where they think they can gain ground.

They attacked along several fronts. We've just stalled them on a couple. The fight isn't over by any stretch of the imagination.


OTOH, we can use these media reports that the other side is loosing by pointing this out to your fence sitting politicians and ask them if they really want to face their next election having backed a loosing idea and loosing colleagues to any extent when the voting public is more connected through the internet and social media than the backlash to the '94 AWB.

 

[Bartholomew Roberts]

You guys need to read the story and not the headlines. The ban IS going to be offered as an amendment to a bill that is already promising registration and 10rd magazines. I will be appalled if either of those ideas passes the Senate and you can bet any Senator that supports them is going to be held accountable for it.

They are hoping they can placate you by opposing a ban and then ramming through these equally horrid laws. You need to make sure your Congressmen understand that magazine limits and registration are not any more acceptable than an AWB.

 

[Silent Bob]

Honestly, to me it doesn't sound like the antis are giving up on anything, only that they have realized that the name "Assault Weapons Ban" is poison to anything they want to get passed, so they are just going to try for pretty much the same stuff in a different bill (which will ban a number of semi-automatic firearms, along with UBCs, mag restrictions, and maybe even registration), with a more "palatable" name, and ram it forward that way.

 

[LawScholar]

I want the magazine capacity ban blocked more than anything, that's why I have like 18 magazines for 6 gun models on backorder.

We have not yet begun to fight.