I don’t really see many, ...or hardly any, owners of everything from Ruger 10/22, to handguns, shotguns, to AR-15s turning their guns in or paying a confiscatory tax on them. We are talking about tens of millions of people, with literally hundreds of millions of guns.
That would also change and betray the ‘gun friendly’ image that Obama has shown us up to this point, causing countless pro-gun liberals to admit they were wrong about Obama’s intentions.. Obama will be hated like never before, by tens of millions more.
I see large numbers of people just ignoring/playing ignorant of any new interpretation of the 1968 law. And because of the sheer numbers involved I believe it would be unenforceable, making a hundred million people criminals.
This will only serve to make Obama look like the partisan Marxist extremist that he is, and I am not sure he wants to drop his mask. It would be political suicide.
In fact, this move could motivate the first bi-partisan congressional move to repeal or modify the 1968 law to counter this. Or defund and or disband the ATF. I can’t imagine congress being overly thrilled about being circumnavigated like this.
Nothing good will come of it for Obama.
Nothing.