They will probably try the ammunition bans first. Their fallback will be an onerous tax on ammunition that will make it prohibitive for most people to buy it in any sustainable quantities past personal protection and hunting usage.

Travlinman knows his stuff. Outright ammo bans, exorbitant ammo taxes, or maybe just the revival of OSHA’s ridiculous ammo storage requirements; requirements no mom & pop shop could accomodate. Buy your bullet press, powder scales, and case trimmers now.

On August 18th, 2008 at 3:29 pm, BrianNY said:
And I thought DC was going to keep fighting 2nd Amendment rights “over Heller highwater.” (snare drum)

Congratulations, Mr. Heller.

Watch those puns, I’m packing and not afraid to use it.

The best defenses are to only vote for strict constitutionalist candidates and to join the NRA if you are currently not a member. I am a proud Life member and firmly believe in Charlton Heston’s words “…from my cold, dead hands!”

Would someone please clear this up for me? If Obama is elected, and if he can put a couple of Supremes on the bench, then the Second Ammendment can be repealed? My guns confiscated?

Well, mushroom, regardless of whether or not he CAN, isn’t it scary enough to know he’ll even try? You can flush all of that balloon juice he spews on the campaign trail and just look at his anti-2A voting record. At the very least, he’ll attempt to stack SCOTUS against the 2A. He’s already stated that he’d like to outlaw carry permits and while in IL he voted to ban gun shops within 5 miles of schools, bars, churches, day care centers, dumpsters, dissed hos and elsewhere. OK, I exaggerated with the last part of my list, but you get my point. The only place his administration will allow a gun shop is in the middle of some prairie dog town in central Montana.

Check out pg 43 of the 2008 Dem National Plan below. They will try to revive a Federal Assault Weapons Ban and you can be assured it will be more onerous than the first and without a sunset date. If that doesn’t work, watch for ammunition bans. It will be ugly.
http://www.workinglife.org/storage/users/4/4/images/111/2008%20democratic%20platform%20080808.pdf

“approved.” He gave the thumbs-up sign, grinned and said, “Victory!”

Dick Heller, thank you sir.

thirty years…..wow.

You are correct, single stack, it is a right. However, even I am willing to grant that the government has the power to regulate fireams in some way.

What part of “…the right of the people…shall not be infringed” do you not understand?

It was a 1911 .45, from what I’ve heard.

DC’s regulations make any firearm that feeds from a bottom magazine a machinegun. They’ve had that rule since 1977. Their Constitution-burning AG Peter Nickles defends it here:

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=9040865&ch=4226713&src=news

Of course, the story is set with him speaking over confiscated weapons. At least the reporter laughs at him – pointing out that a robber has to set up an appointment to make sure you have time to load your gun.

So Heller should register one of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bren_light_machine_gun

And since semi-autos are illegal but revolvers aren’t, he should register a Webley Fosbury semi-auto revolver, just to mess with them.

It’s also pathetic that 4 judges out of 9 refused, out of their own political misguidedness, to affirm what the amendment actually says. Or worse yet, that 1 out of 3 on the DC District Court said that since DC residents aren’t state residents, they aren’t covered by the Bill of Rights at all.

A right has been turned into a priveledge. Would we be cheering if he got a “free speech permit”?

When we’re all like Alaska and Vermont, then it’ll be time to celebrate. For now, it’s time to push on and start suing all the other dictatorial nanny-state tyrant-lites out there. Like Daley and Bloomberg.

And maybe, just maybe, we’ll eventually get a Supreme Court wise enough to recognize “arms” covers everything short of “ordnance” – and who recognize that free armed societies are safe, polite societies.

It’s also time to push back against the leftist mindset that rewards criminals rather than punishes them, and punishes citizens for defending themselves.

More autonomy threatens the nanny state, but preserves and nourishes the individual, the family, the community, and the nation. Oh, it may take a while…