Here we go...

Yeah. He's not going to take your guns away...

Straight from the source (http://change.gov/agenda/urbanpolicy/) No, I'm not going to make it an active link:

Address Gun Violence in Cities: As president, Barack Obama would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade. Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals who shouldn't have them. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent, as such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets.

This will happen within the first 100 days of his administration.

I'm betting the new ban will be far more expansive than the Clinton-era ban. Because he believes government should do more...

I'll go ahead and say it, since the other bloggers haven't: this will be the first confiscatory step. I don't mean a step toward confiscation ... I bet the new ban will criminalize posession of the banned guns and standard-capacity magazines. Diane Feinstein's wet dream of having gun owners turn 'em all in will have begun. To those of you who have made pilgramages to the gun store since the election: enjoy 'em while you've got 'em. You didn't buy that gun ... you rented it.

The fact that no data supported the effectiveness of the original ban won't make any difference. Like a true socialist ... er, populist, the actual results don't matter. It's going to make people feel safer, and that's all that matters.

And for those few guns we'll be allowed to keep ... I'm looking forward to the definition of making them "childproof". That may be the only good that comes of this ... people (those who don't see themselves as "gun nuts") won't like having a federal law breathing down their necks that mandates the use of trigger locks, keeping ammo locked up separately, etc. (Yeah, you with the .22 in the closet? That'll apply to you.) Gun owners who self-righteously call other gun owners "gun nuts" and who think they're above all this will find themselves suffering, too. Obama hates a wheelgun just as much as an AK. You won't be kidding yourselves much longer.

Britain is probably a good model for what's about to go down. "Gun nut" is about to be a really broad term. When Obama has all the guns, he'll go for the slingshots, kitchen knives, Samuri swords and sharp sticks next. Because those things don't belong on our streets...

I do not think that's reactionary hyperbole, folks. Those of you who'd mock me are conveniently ignoring his voting record. I'm not predicting anything that hasn't already been done in Australia and in Britain. We've elected someone of the same mind. We're next.

Those of us who take the Constitution seriously and who are making dire predictions will be proven right in the end, but by then it'll be too late, and I'm afraid America doesn't care anymore. Liberty has taken a back seat to the whims of petulant, irresponsible child/adults with inexcusable mortgages and the whining of minivan-driving soccer-moms and SUV drivers who pay higher gas prices (which, interestingly enough have hit $1.99/gal in some places ... I'm sure that the MSM will attribute that to some of Bush's policies ... they'll report it tomorrow ... really...)

This is going to be a long, long term.

H/T to the Geek and Xavier