I have a hard time believing that the state of Georgia (mine), Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, ... are going to willfully assist the Feds in going door-to-door to collect guns from anyone. An outright confiscation has no chance of passing and even less chance of succeeding. It may take 2 or 3 individuals fighting back to kick off the resistance, but I have little doubt it will occur. Given the weak state of our economy and the mess in Europe that could be the catalyst to bring down the whole house of cards.
I can not imagine the House ever passing such a ban let alone confiscation. Even Congress is not that dumb!!
Yeah, I can’t see a confiscation bill passing now or anytime in the near future. But beyond that time range I can absolutely see it. The growing demographics in this country - Hispanics, Asians, single women - do not support the Second Amendment. They are much more supportive of gun control and gun bans.
We may not win the Presidency again, and the Senate seems a lost cause now too considering how deeply we got our clocks cleaned this year with conservative, moderate, and liberal Republicans all losing, in many cases to shitty opponents.
As far as the Sup Court goes, well now we can point to the Heller and McDonald decisions, but they’ll be overturned. And even if they’re not, I doubt even this Sup Court would strike down an ‘assault weapons’ ban, or do anything about restrictions on magazine capacity or attempts to restrict ammunition.
Since House members are the easiest to pressure, we may maintain a pro-Second Amendment House for a while, but I’m convinced they will go along with most of what Feinstein and Obama wants next year. The GOP establishment is desperate to moderate the party’s image. What better way to do that than banning evil assault weapons? My pessimism is bolstered even more by the knowledge that much of the GOP establishment hates its base. They are embarrassed that they must rely on white people, and conservative Christians, and gun owners to win elections.