Doverham, I agree with almost all of your points except for your assertion that nothing really has changed. Nothing really has changed for criminals and drug dealers who by and large get their guns from theft and other illegal channels. Nothing has changed for rogue elements of our Government who illegally supplied Mexican drug cartels with semi-automatic assault style weapons. All of the change has been directed at law abiding U.S. citizens who must now supply the Government with a complete traceable database and thus an illegal Firearms Registry, by giving information of every firearm they transfer... even as a gift to a son or daughter. And they must pay the associated transfer fees at approximately $40.00 a pop. How many guys here have 25, 50, or even more guns that will in some way be transferred, either by selling or bequeathing in their estates? And they must now guess how the ATF under Anti-Gun administrations will use their "discretion to interpret 'engaged in the business' of dealing firearms." Do you want to be the test case when Federal Agents, using ATF discretion, charge you with a felony because you sold a couple guns or gave them to your grandson?
You say that essentially, nothing really has changed. But your link takes us to a page that gives us 6 reasons why Obama Is Untrustworthy On Guns. I urge everyone to read that article. I think most of us can agree with that as well. Nothing has changed there. Obama has always been untrustworthy on guns, and his latest Executive Order gives him more opportunity to infringe upon the Constitutional Rights of law abiding gun owners while doing virtually nothing to reduce gun violence.
I do agree with Ed Good on the Gun Control Act of 1968. The long term costs and damages caused by it are evidence of what happens when gun owners are complacent and supportive of anti-gun politicians. Makes you wonder why Ed initiated Threads last year proposing Ex-NYC Mayor Bloomberg and Andrew Cuomo as good Presidential candidates, and also claiming that we should give up our semi-auto handguns. dla (sic) apparently still equates laws restricting gun ownership by felons with infringements upon the rights of law abiding citizens, and uses the former to excuse the latter. That is a debate I refuse to engage in simply because it is silly. Contrary to what the Trolls here say, you cannot support Anti-Gun politicians and still claim to be Pro-Gun. That is like calling yourself a vegetarian while you are eating a steak.
