Everyone thinks this will damage the Brady Bunch, yet the hoplophobes were saying the same thing prior to their major successes of the Brady Bill and the AWB.
What this will do is to get the Fudds motivated, but only in terms of protecting their own toys. They will push to protect hunting rifles, and will accept the sacrifice of "assault weapons" as the political bone to be thrown to save their own interests.
Buzz is right about the "assault weapons" being thrown to the VPC crowd as an appeasement. Read the posts, some of you guys are practically dancing in the street thinking that this will unite all gunowners. Nada. A lot of firearms enthusiasts only care about protecting their small area of interest. The saying "A rising tide raises all boats" has an antithesis, "An ebbing tide grounds all boats" or as one of the founding fathers said "We must all hang together or, surely, we'll all hang seperately" is missed by a lot of gun people. Zumbo, and his ilk, are all too willing to sacrifice us to keep their "toys" for a little longer. Why they can't see the big picture, I don't know. Selfishness, willful ignorance, thinking that they may be above it all and it won't effect them? Beats me.
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