It is barely possible, given his dismal record on guns, that Barack H. Obama is telling the truth when he says he would not have an anti-individual rights agenda as President. The fact is he wouldn’t need one. There are enough anti-gun bills already introduced into Congress to effectively gut your natural, fundamental right to self-defense against crime and tyranny, without any help from the first-term, junior senator from Chicago.

Lautenberg, Kennedy, McCarthy, Feinstein, and others have written draconian anti-gun rights bills that would make the Second Amendment a meaningless shell. The Democrat Platform contains an endorsement for renewal of the Clinton semi-automatic weapons ban; however, the new version of the bill is the old ban on steroids. (See my post under the category “Elections,” “Proposed Second Amendment Democrat Plank is Rotten at the Core.”)  If Obama wins a 60-vote majority in the Senate, they could pass the whole freedom-killing legislative package without breaking a sweat. (You could go to the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate and look these bills up.  As always, the Devil is in the details.)

Don’t count on the Supreme Court to save your rights.  Court cases take years to resolve and “The Chosen One” may get up to three appointments on the highest court in the land.  Your rights (and your guns) could be long gone, before even a friendly court ruled that the Democrats were out of order with with their anti-gun legislation.

After taking away your legal rights and turning you into a subject of the Great Utopian Socialist State, Obama could simply smile his famous smile, and nose in the air, self-righteously claim, “All I did was sign the bills that Congress sent me. I didn’t have an agenda. Don’t blame me, if you’re desperate, clingy, and don’t have the legal right to own a gun!”

Democrat Anti-Gun Bills in Congress in 2008

 Obama and a 60-Vote Senate Majority Could Pass Them All in 2009

H.R. 203 Expands search and seizure in domestic violence cases

  H.R. 256 “Lock up all your guns!” “Safe-storage” bill-makes guns useless for self-defense a la the D.C. gun ban supported by Obama

H.R. 1022 Semi-auto ban on steroids-bans virtually anything with a magazine well-presumptive ban of any weapon ever used by military-.22 caliber target weapons?

H.R. 1168 Prohibits gun ownership by anyone convicted in a foreign court-so much for “presumption of innocence,” habeas corpus, double jeopardy, etc.

H.R. 1784 Bans possession of any pistol or ammunition that can penetrate body armor-Remember Kennedy tried to ban hunting ammo-Obama signed on to the concept

H.R. 1859 Bans “large capacity” magazines

H.R. 1874 Requires microstamping capability in all semi-auto firearms/ballistic testing for all guns in “U.S. custody”

H.R. 1895 Allows unlimited casual inspection of licensed gun dealers-Can you say harassment?

H.R. 2074 Allows Attorney General to declare anyone to be a terrorist based on hearsay information-No recourse! Once on list, you are prohibited from owning a gun

H.R. 2666 Universal owner licensing and background checks on all sales-de facto registration-prelude to confiscation

H.R. 5266 Requires microstamping on semi-automatic handguns-eventual ban on all pistols without microstamping feature

S.1221 Requires machinegun-like registration of all .50 BMG rifles with 12,000 foot pounds energy

S.2577 Requires registration of every gun show visitor at the door-kills gun shows nationwide

If you don’t vote for John McCain and get involved in the GOP 96-hour get-out-the-vote effort, please don’t come whining to me, if Obama and his radical Liberal friends get your guns. I will not be a sympathetic listener. Compassionate Conservatism has its limits.

Def Mech