NOBODY saw this coming, right?

[unixronin]

"I'm not going to take your guns away."

"I respect the Second Amendment."

"Lawful gun owners have nothing to fear."

"As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons," Holder told reporters.

Yeah, so he lied.  But it's for the children ...er, the Mexicans!  Wait ... Mexican children!  That makes it alright, doesn't it?

"Some recent Mexican army and police confrontations with drug cartels have resembled small-unit combat, with cartels employing automatic weapons and grenades," the [State Department] warning said.  "Large firefights have taken place in many towns and cities across Mexico, but most recently in northern Mexico, including Tijuana, Chihuahua City and Ciudad Juarez."

So, the Mexican government is concerned about their drug cartels using fully-automatic weapons (that's "machineguns" to you) and grenades.  Weapons which you can't legally buy in the US without a Class 3 permit (and, for the grenades, a destructive device permit), and which command astronomical prices because no new ones have been allowed to enter private hands since 1986.  (All the legal full-auto weapons that are in civilian hands in the US are in private collections.  As a matter of fact, about three quarters of them are in the private collection of Reed Knight, president of Knight Armaments Corporation and about the closest person in the US to a real-life Tony Stark.)  And barring law-abiding US gun owners from buying semi-automatic rifles that look like them will stop the drug cartels from getting the real thing, which they're already not getting here.

Yeah.  Right.  The logic of that is crystal clear.

Democratic administrations change, but Democratic party bullshit goes on forever.  For all those of you who trusted Obama's promises, and assured those of us who own guns that Obama wasn't going to be Just Another Democratic Gun Grabber, there's a stack of warm washcloths in the bathroom for you to wipe the egg off your faces with.  We told you Bush's chair would scarcely have cooled before Obama and Biden were pushing a new round of gun control laws.  Well, bend over, because here it comes.

Also see this post.

Q:  How do you tell when a politician is lying?

A:  His lips move.

Comments

[n5red.livejournal.com]

All of the billions of dollars wasted by the previous administration doesn't hit home like the current administration making a gun grab. I know that I am going to communicate to my Congresscritters that their next election could be a single issue election for me. Vote for any anti-gun bill and I will volunteer for your opponent's campaign.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Especially when the Obama administration's proposed solution for the Bush administration throwing away trillions of dollars is to throw away more trillions of dollars.