Obama partially backpedals on gun control speech while Senate Dems surge ahead

Basically, there are Senators--as we all know--that are for the AWB.

President Obama not taking on any sort of Firearm Politics at this juncture of the campaign season makes sense. I will point out that the AWB was under Clinton, he signed it, and he got a second term. I am of the opinion that relating the Democrats major loss post AWB gives much credit where it's not due. Democrats didn't lose primarily because of the AWB, IMO.

If anything there are man anti-firearm types that would be more than happy to get to the polls to vote for President Obama, if he came out and stated that he was seeking to push such a policy. He wouldn't though, since the House is an insurmountable hurdle, and the Senate has a majority of Democrats, and Republicans who have no interest in pushing that sort of an agenda.

Beretta92FSLady said:

Basically, there are Senators--as we all know--that are for the AWB.

President Obama not taking on any sort of Firearm Politics at this juncture of the campaign season makes sense. I will point out that the AWB was under Clinton, he signed it, and he got a second term. I am of the opinion that relating the Democrats major loss post AWB gives much credit where it's not due. Democrats didn't lose primarily because of the AWB, IMO.

If anything there are man anti-firearm types that would be more than happy to get to the polls to vote for President Obama, if he came out and stated that he was seeking to push such a policy. He wouldn't though, since the House is an insurmountable hurdle, and the Senate has a majority of Democrats, and Republicans who have no interest in pushing that sort of an agenda.

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I guess you're forgetting the massive ground gun rights advocates have gained in the last 20 years.

God, I feel old.

Administrator said:

While reassuring supporters of gun control that the President “still wants Congress to reinstitute a federal ban on military-style assault weapons,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters that the President “will not push for stricter gun laws this election year.” Note that he didn’t promise that President Obama would not make gun control a centerpiece of any second term, only that he would not push for it “this election year.“

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Obama believes, as do many of the ignorant masses, that any semi-automatic firearm is a "military-style assault weapon", even though none meet the technical definition of a select-fire weapon capable of fully-automatic function. This jeopardizes the ARs/ASs/AKs in particular, because to the casual, unfamiliar and unknowing observer they are - appearance-wise - identical to the select-fire, fully-automatic military weapons... which makes them "military-style" even though they are not technically "assault weapons". Technicalities of that type tend to get lost in political (and legislative) translations.

Obama, although completely ineffectual as a leader, is not a stupid man. He has his own agenda, and he's working it to the fullest. Of course the Usurper-in-Chief “will not push for stricter gun laws this election year.”, inasmuch as to do so would most probably cost him the election, and he's not yet finished destroying our Republic. Pax...

Doesn't matter if they are military weapons .. we still can own them. Take that Obamalama