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I suspect that Montana and everyone else will fall in line and do as they are told. There's a lot of chest thumping coming from conservatives regarding new gun control laws, but in the end that is all it is. Conservatives are good at drawing a line in the sand, daring liberals to step over it, and the stepping back another five feet and drawing another line after the libs do step over the first. This has been going on for decades and I don't see any reason it will stop now.

What we're probably looking at is a ban on magazines which can carry more than 10 rounds and maybe even an all out assault weapons ban. Those who are threatening war over gun confiscation will not feel threatened enough by the new laws to doing anything and the water will continue to boil, but at least they can feel like patriots for coming on the internet and typing bravely.

DangerZone said: "This has been going on for decades and I don't see any reason it will stop now."

Some of us have waited "decades" for the Supreme Court to accept a Second Amendment case. The Heller decision in 2008 followed by the McDonald decision in 2010 have set the stage for a recovery from past infringements.

Here in Kalifornia the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals has dragged its feet and tied virtually all of our cases to one ten-year-old case which has evidently been settled with no actual determination of the meaning of the Second Amendment.

I would not characterize the behavior of U.S. citizens as cowardice, but rather we follow the teachings of our Founders. From the Declaration: "... accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. "

A federal so-called "Assault Weapons Ban" was tolerated, knowing that it would expire in ten years. Our patience was rewarded by seeing that it was not renewed.

A so-called "Assault Weapons Ban" was implemented in Kalifornia. It took three different laws to have any effect at all. Some relatively simple work-arounds allow one to keep one's arms. Some of the workarounds can be reversed in minutes to restore the full function of the original rifles.

Even the "normal-capacity magazine" law is practically unenforceable because the law does not forbid "possession", only manufacture, importation, or transfer.

I expect that our patience will be rewarded again when the Republican controlled House refuses to consider ANY further federal gun control.

If we are disappointed in that, then I would expect the Supreme Court to accept an emergency hearing and a declaration of unConstitutionality.

If the Supreme Court does not act, then I would expect many local sheriffs to defy the federal government by disallowing any federal action in their jurisdictions. We see some of that happening already with regard to the War on Some Drugs. (I don't expect that it will be my sheriff who takes my side.)

If the President, ... and the Congress, ... and the Supreme Court, ... and the local sheriff all fail us, then I will act.

I was kept in a state of anxiety throughout the debacle known as Watergate. I was eventually rewarded by seeing a corrupt President impeached and forced to resign and seeing five dozen of his minions convicted of felonies.

How the nation will handle the crimes of Obama, I don't know. But there is time, if we remain strong AND ARMED.