[Redbob]

"It's interesting that the people of Iraq have more second amendment rights than Americans. The AK-47's that they get to keep are FULL AUTOMATIC while we poor Americans can only own SEMI-AUTO rifles."

We're working on, we're working on it...

These laws we have weren't passed in a single day, and it'll certainly take more than a single Administration to dismantle them.

"Assault weapons" and high-cap magazine ban is first.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Working on? You mean by renewing the ban on the import of semi-autos?

I suspect that this move was dictated more by prudent realism rather love of the right ot keep and bear arms. Even so, by takling this action, the occupation authorities showed some rare good sense.

[El Gato]

These laws we have weren't passed in a single day, and it'll certainly take more than a single Administration to dismantle them. "Assault weapons" and high-cap magazine ban is first.

What you say is true, .... but.. One supreme court decision could begin the unraveling of the entire scheme of gun control. And it wouldn't take long once an unambiguous Supreme Court decision was in place. With such a precident it would be much harder to re-impose any sort of gun control on the general populace. Absent such a decision, what one adminstration tears down, another can build up, and they won't wait 10 years to do it either.

That said, what does "the adminstration" have to do with it, their unchallenged official possition is that the President will sign the renewal bill if it comes to his desk. It's up to Congress to see that it never makes it there, but the statements of his spokespersons won't make that any easier.