Banning guns of any kind would be a hard thing to pull off for the libs. Putting controls and taxes on ammunition however, is MUCH easier for them to to. We need to stay vigilant on this.

It's not Obama I'm so worried about. It's the cast of characters associated with him that pull his strings.

It seems that many people are suffering from premature ej***lation syndrome with this presidency. The guy is President for a year and already people are jettisoning the idea that he might try to ban or restrict firearms in some onerous fashion. The guy has three years left and he, and his Democrat majority, seem to have the most ambitious party agenda in a generation. Its right that people don't trust him.

True, we have Heller to protect us to a certain degree. However, in order to win a majority in that case, Scalia had to write as vague an opinion as possible and leave for tomorrow other critical issues in firearms ownership. So don't bet on Heller doing all the heavy-lifting.

I'd look for an end-run around Congress and the Courts with administrative/regulatory sanctions on firearms owners, retailers, and manufacturers including allowing lawsuits against manufacturers and retailers; stepped up enforcement of regulations and law already on the books (this one has already come to fruition); and creation of new regulations to "help" the regulatory bodies enforce the laws already on the books.

Pay attention to what the BHO Admin is doing now - shifting firearms & health research to the NIH from the CDC because laws were passed that stripped funding for firearms research from the CDC. The AMA, CDC, and NIH are notably anti-gun which correlates with their "findings" that having a firearm in your home makes life more dangerous for you. Its reasonable expect an assault on the Second Amendment in the next three years.

It's much easier to tax ammo, require fingerprints to purchase ammo, limit amounts of ammo that can be purchased, ban lead (knowing lead substitutes are expensive), ban new target ranges, go after existing gun ranges for lead contamination in the soil and noise, ban firearms shooting and/or hunting on small parcels of land, and on and on and on.....and never even touch the 2a.

I figure just over half of Americans would think he's gonna try to ban gun or ammo sales. I think he might. In my view the only things stopping him are the moderate Dems and the fact that his calendar/agenda is otherwise already full.

Buy the way Bloomberg might be worse, and have the money to be just as powerful.

There isn't enough support, even from the left, for him to try. The political fallout would derail other issues more central to the Dem's agenda. As an example, look at the Red State Dem's blocking a public option health care. The centrists in the party know that they would lose seats and congressional control if they even raised the issue, particularly with the '10 midterms coming up. With the Republican Party leaning so far on the hard-core fringe, the Dems know that they can't threaten gun rights if they want to pick up the moderate Republicans and Independents that the GOP has abandoned.

I guessed the total about right (I guessed 40%) but I was wrong on gun owners (I guessed 80%). I must be overestimating our fear. I agree with Mike D's comment that the Dems won't risk loses in the next elections by taking on gun control on a Federal level. Obama is no idiot and the Dems in Congress can't be that stupid. It would virtually guarantee that Obama would lose the White House & the Dems would lose their advantage in Congress. Judicial appointments is where we should be worried. Local governments and some states will violate the Second Amendment if the courts let them. Bluecollarkid makes a good point too. Back door administrative sanctions can sometimes do an end run around the Constitution--especially if the courts won't uphold it.

I must of offended a few Obama supporters.

Apparently every bullet they want to be is a "cop killer" nowadays.

We need to stand up for ourselves. I am concerned about the rights of my children, and if we do not do something soon, we are all in trouble. It is time Americans start becoming informed of who they are electing to both the executive and legislative branches. Stop voting on emotion. It is time that officials come back down to reality and realize they work for us. I don't want their help. I want them to leave me alone. Stop spending my children's money and stop acting like they rule us. They work for us, and we as Americans need to not only vote for those that have our same beliefs, but we need to run for office and try to change the way things are going. We need to start a grass roots movement at the local level. Take a stand, go to tea parties, contact our representatives, and get involved. Too many of us expect someone else to take care of the propblem. It is easier to complain than fix the problem. Stop complaining and start doing!

I agree that it would be almost impossible to enforce, yet I believe that the Obama administration will try to ban handguns anywho.

It is happening slowly on the side. He knows he can not come out directly with any gun banning legislation, but we see can see the future: lead bans, increasing protected habitats,higher licensing costs and fees, and the systematic brainwashing of our children.

bwbardot you misunderstand the Heller case (a.k.a. the DC gun ban case). The SCOTUS did not invoke the 14th Amendment Due Process clause - the 5-4 majority simply ruled that, under the 2nd Amendment, the DC Gov., being part of a federal territory, cannot ban possession (or legislate ownership laws so onerous so as to render the possessed firearm inoperable and unusable)of a firearm in the home for protection. This is why the court is currently docketing two cases - one from the 2nd circuit and the other from the 5th (or 7th? - whichever one Easterbrook sits on) - that bring the issue of whether the 14th Amendment incorporation doctrine includes the 2nd Amendment so as to apply it to the States (DC is not a state). As for Due Process, that's still a completely different issue and will likely be litigated in the future.

I tend to think that Obama would like to ban handguns but he has enough political sense to know that to try and do this would destroy his ability to get anything else done - he may try to whittle away gun owner rights at the margins with ammo or gun regulations that inflate the cost so much that they act as bans, if he gets elected to a second term, he might also try something more direct at the end of his second term.

Alot people call gun owners paranoid about their Obama fears - and there is some truth to that - but I don't see any harm in being a little paranoid - it's an effective motivator for protecting our rights.

I think it was the CEO of Intel who once said, "it's only the paranoid who survive"

Don it is obvious that you don't know how the Dims think. The whole handicap of the Dims is the "big Tent" that has room for everybody. So you wind up with 26 positions on anything from 13 mouths moving. Merely observing the whole health care debacle, illustrates dimocratic lack of unity. Repukelicans have always been better at keeping a "party line" and making members toe it. The Dims other problem is that Big tents can hold more riff-raff, so one winds up with a certain percentage of politicians trying to game the system. Not so with the Republicans, where the entire party is focussed like a laser on gaming the system. But the Repukelicans are not for everybody, only for the few, whatever the propaganda may say to the contrary. Handsome is as handsome does and when I compare the record of Repukelicans to that of Dimocrats, I see that again and again the Repukelicans line up on the side of corporate interests and that pernicious 1% of the population that has claimed so large a share of our national wealth to the empoverishment of so very many. As I look at what each party has pushed for agenda, I see the Repukelicans giving corporations access to public resources and not wanting to tax the profits on wealth extracted from public lands. I see the Dims supporting voting rights and repukes attempting to block citizens from voting. I hear Dims talking about Public Option healthcare and Republicans talking about Personal Mandates. I hear Repukelicans crying about how the Dims will take their guns, but when the mass confiscation of firearms happened after Katerina, It was the Repukelicans who gave the order, they were in power then not the Dims. Such Hyppocracy. If you guys don't want to remember RECENT history because it contradicts your petty prejudice then you just aren't rational. The Dims wouln't take yer guns, The Repukes already did take guns, but they'd rather you forgot that inconvenient fact when they are ranting about Obama. Get Real, Open your eyes, Do the math.

Maybe we should hang one prominent Democrat and one prominent Republican every day until they get the message that the American people are tired of "business as usual"?

If you are not sick of "business as usual" in the nation's capitol, then you might consider removing your head from the dark, moist, stinky location it currently calls home....and get a grip.

I get the impression that a lot of you guys WANT Obama to ban handguns just so you can have an excuse!
Obama is not going to do anything to your pistols because even if he wanted to, he can't. All this terror at the democrats is based on the irrational ravings of demagogery. The Democrats always stumble over thier own feet trying to make everybody happy, but they are the "Big Tent" party so what you wind up with is like the proverbial ants pulling on the sugar cube in all directions (so their prize goes nowhere). The thing that worries me about the Dims these days is the old adage "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups".
Personal firearms are such a "trigger" issue that Obama (who actually is a smart person) ain't going near it.
Besides He may actually like handguns! has anybody ever thought to invite him to a range for a pleasurable afternoon of familiarization with a piece or two? I hear lots of people screaming about what the fear he might do but I don't hear anything ever of anybody attempting to win hearts and minds here. Why not try to convince him of the logic of our position and the goodness of our charicter and cause instead?

WA Mtnhunter's comment is exactly what needs to happen I don't care which side these politicians are on its the same crap year in and year out-we need to get rid of em all. As far as Barack Husein I wouldn't put it past him and his cronies just look at the A.G. and his stance on MY 2nd Amendment.