Keep your eye on the ball
There is a very determined core group of anti gun people who will never stop trying to disarm the American people. The Supreme Court Heller decision of last year, instead of strengthening our Second Amendment rights served to reinforce the movement to "reasonable regulation".
The NO GUN group will use the reasonable regulation strategy to pick away at gun rights. They will raise taxes and fees on licenses, guns, ammunition and reloading components. They will continue efforts to make you register for every gun related purchase you make. They are trying to figure out how to criminalize and prevent individual to individual sales. They will sue component manufacturers in well publicized bleeding heart cases...AND THEY WILL NEVER STOP.
The big "O" and his henchman Joe Biden, followed by ex-Clintonistas Rahm Emanuel and Eric Holder are deadly dangerous to law abiding gun owners.
The only thing they fear is a large voting block of well financed gun owners and that mainly exists in the form of the NRA...if you are not a member you need to join.
Unfortunately, as I found in my own family, there are a lot of people who are not involved in the shooting sports who are OK with registration, rules and high taxes. They do not understand how this creeping strategy is like a noose tightening around our neck until the FFL holders are all forced out of business, person to person sales are prohibited and the remaining hardware and components are taxed out of reach of most people.
If you think "It can't happen here" you are wrong...it is happening now and with the margin of power the Leftists have in the Congress it is going to be a long, painful 4 years. Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Dick Durbin prodded by Biden, Emanuel and Holder will make it happen thanks to the voters who wanted CHANGE. You may not like the change we get and the long term effects are going to be disastrous. Remember, the Heller decision was a 5-4 vote. That means that 4 Supreme Court judges voted against our Second Amendment rights.
Active gun owners need to get their heads out of the sand, educate themselves and lobby those close to them to help preserve the Second Amendment which in Heller was ruled to be an individual right to keep and bear arms. Unfortunately, the "shall not be infringed" part is history. Reasonable regulation is an infringement and is going to get worse.
Pat in Alton, Illinois...Home of Dick Durbin, the last State to recognize the Right to Carry in self defense is a Right. KEEP AND BEAR ARMS.