Obama's Assault Weapons Ban plan disappears down the memory hole

doug ross@journal ^ | November 10, 2008 | directorblue

[Free ThinkerNY]

Moments after the election the media breathlessly reported that gun sales had hit record levels. What the media did its best to obfuscate is the vigor with which President-Elect Obama will pursue egregious restrictions like the "Assault Weapons" Ban (AWB).

The Kansas City Star was one of many newspapers laying down covering fire for the AWB.

It... is unclear whether a serious push for regulation is likely from Congress. The number of Democrats there who support gun rights has increased. Also, the party fell short Tuesday of winning a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, leaving Republicans leverage against laws they don’t like.

What the Star "forgot" to note is that Obama's new Change.gov website had explicitly described the desire for an assault weapons ban ("Making the expired federal assault weapons ban permanent") -- along with a host of other gun-ban tactics.

However the offending page -- http://change.gov/agenda/urbanpolicy/ -- quickly disappeared down the memory hole after staff realized their plans had been revealed just a bit too soon.

The NRA-ILA has a PDF snapshot of the page held by the Google cache prior to its disappearance. And it completely explains the duplicity of the Obama campaign when it comes to the Second Amendment.

Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign slogan, "the audacity of hope," should have instead been "the audacity of deceit." After months of telling the American people that he supports the Second Amendment, and only hours after being declared the president-elect, the Obama transition team website announced an agenda taken straight from the anti-gun lobby--four initiatives designed to ban guns and drive law-abiding firearm manufacturers and dealers out of business...

Read the whole thing. And for those of you citizens represented (or should I say "ruled"?) by "Blue Dog Democrats", a few telephone calls and emails might be in order.

Of course, the proposed ban wouldn't apply to the ruling class; only to the rabble like us. This is evidenced by a recent photo of U.S. Secret Service agents protecting the President-Elect on a visit to the gym.


Whereupon commenter Jay.Mac dryly observed, "And look -- they're armed with the type of weapons that Obama wants to permanently ban for the rest of America because 'such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets.'"

Be warned: you can be sure that the offending page only went on a temporary hiatus.

[ResponseAbility]

Here is a Link to...The following text was copied from the website www.change.gov - the official Obama/Biden transition information site. These items were from the Agenda links listed at the bottom of the web site. This data was copied on November 7, 2008 at noon, MST... . There is also a link to a pdf copy for download at the link.

[ResponseAbility]

Perhaps I should clarify that my post above is a link to the entire Obama Agenda page before it was scrubbed.

[JamesP81]

i think an AR-15 is the logical next step. once i move out of the city, i'll get a rifle. they will always be available, maybe not so with the AR's.

You might consider one of the new 580 series Ruger Mini-14s. Shoots the same ammunition as the AR, essentially equivalent accuracy, and if you get the Ranch Rifle version with wood stock, it doesn't look like an "assault rifle". The only bad thing I can say about it is 20 round factory magazines for it are quite costly.

[gundog]

Olympic's are OK, but they're kind of sloppily built.

Mine has ZERO play between upper and lower.

[EdReform]

Buy “Boston’s Gun Bible”

+1

[thefactor]

yeah, but i am a lefty and stag makes a lefty ar-15. and i like black rifles.

[JamesP81]

Stag makes a quality rifle. It’s a good choice, especially since you’re lefty.