under the radar got caught
Yep...
Finding things like this is what the traditional media are supposed to be doing, and because they aren't doing their jobs, it becomes the job of “new media” like Free Republic.
The New York Times is running a series of articles on proposed revisions to the United States Constitution. Slate magazine is doing the same, here:
http://hive.slate.com/hive/how-can-we-fix-constitution
We in the conservative movement need to take these people at their word. I think they really are trying to advocate amendments to the Constitution, and while their most radical proposals likely will never get serious attention in the Congress or the state legislatures, we need to pay close attention to these discussions to see what the enemies of our historic Republic want to do.
One benefit of having this stuff out in the open is we can use it to force moderate Democrats and conservative Democrats to come clean on where they stand. All over the South, local and state-level Democrats have been able to distance themselves from their national party, but nonsense like this is pretty hard to defend to pro-gun constituencies. Those of us on Free Republic sometimes like to say there are no conservative Democrats left, but the fact is that lots of rural Southern Democrats at least **CLAIM** to be conservative, and at the very least we can use things like this to force them to ask hard questions. Ideally, we may be able to use pressure from within the Democratic Party to kill these ideas before they gain traction.
Given the choice, it's always better to stop a threat before it gets started than fight it once it's gotten ready for a fight.