Anthony Canales takes a look at where disappointed gun grabbers might go next…
Gunowners and firearms activists were greeted with good news this morning that the Feinstein bill to ban modern sporting rifles and high capacity magazines was being stripped out of the Senate Gun Control Bill by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
To keep peace in the Senate, however, Senator Reid is going to allow Senator Feinstein to present her bill as an amendment on the floor. Prospects for the ban are not good, with Senator Reid’s whip count coming up some 15 Democrats or more short in his latest survey.
Still, that does not mean that gungrabbers like Feinstein and Schumer are done at the Federal Level. Firearms rights activists are going to have to remain vigilant well until the eve of the 2014 Election, if the 103rd Congress that DiFi is so fond of reminding us all about is of any indication.
But there are signs that the argument is devolving into a discussion of expanding the definitions of what is a prohibited person, and how gun bans can be increased de facto through broader and broader classifications of derogatory misdemeanors and issues related to mental health treatment.
This argument is as old as North American politics. Whether it was Tammany Hall’s way of using the Gangs of New York to control the vote, Jim Crow, or even Liberal politics to implement Federal and State gun control in the 1960′s, it is the ruling elites that generally have a problem with an armed citizenry. If anything, any armed individual is a threat to the Ruling Class, if their own Animal Farm methodologies are to be analyzed thoroughly.