[WilliamofCarmichael]

I don't think that Obama, et al. want to risk outright confrontations on a mass scale.

There could be an executive branch FCC "Fairness Doctrine" approach.. made possible first by de facto registration of all guns in that it could be declared that each gun owned by a citizen is now "registered."

The registration would also be -- a kind of license -- and the "license" can be revoked merely by complaints filed by fellow citizens that the owner acts "irresponsibly."

The Second Amendment remains but is severely restricted..

That's how the "Fairness Doctrine" was used by liberal/progressives to restrict the First Amendment without having to repeal it -- they enforced "fairness" by threatening to take the radio station owners' licenses if citizens complained about their programming content

• "You might also think that they would recall the notorious Fairness Doctrine, which was used to 'harass and intimidate' right-wing radio broadcasts, in the words of one unabashed Kennedy-Johnson operative. When that censorious policy was ended in 1987 by former broadcaster Ronald Reagan, there was an explosion of talk formats that gave voice to popular concerns (for a while, Rush Limbaugh even billed himself as equal time)."
• As reported by Fred Friendly in his book appropriately entitled The Good Guys, the Bad Guys, and the First Amendment, this was part of a "massive strategy . . . to challenge and harass the right-wing broadcasters and hope that the challenges would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited, and decide it was too expensive to continue." This strategy was said to have been successful in almost all respects.

-- the liberals today are flooding the nation with warning screams of "'assault weapons' hiding under beds" and everywhere just waiting to shoot you. The uninformed voters would be tricked into being shills and complain to the authorities about a neighborhood gun owner.

[Windflier]

I don't think that Obama, et al. want to risk outright confrontations on a mass scale.

There could be an executive branch FCC "Fairness Doctrine" approach.. made possible first by de facto registration of all guns in that it could be declared that each gun owned by a citizen is now "registered."

If the left thinks they can get away with any sort of infringement on our 2nd Amendment rights in this information age, they've got another think coming. The people are far too well-informed to sit still for even the most harmless looking edicts in this area.

Citizens on the center-right have been in a state of alarm at everything this president has done over the last four years, and are now literally holding their breath about what his next dictatorial move will be. If he even breathes the wrong way, he could ignite a conflagration in this country.

Once the match is lit, the thing will run its course, because no one will be able to put it out. When all is said and done, there will be a reset of our constitutional republic, and a permanent ban on left-liberalism in this country. The leaders on the left aren't stupid. They know this, and will either back off this completely, or go all in.

We shall see.