Your post betrays a charming ignorance. The AWB did a lot...it drove the cost of high capacity magazines through the roof. It drove the prices of "black rifles" through the roof". Most importantly, it gave the gun ban bastards a nose under the camels tent.
If this story pans out true, if the White House gets involved in renewing this odious legislation, it'll finally happen. I'll finally vote Libertarian. I won't be alone. W lost the popular vote in 2000, and Thank God, squeaked out an electoral college win. (Madison was a genius.) If he embarks upon this course of action and cross the NRA, he' ll be a one termer like Poppy.
Before you excoriate me on this, let me ask a question. Do you have a line in the sand? A place where politicans dare not tread? IF you don't, I think you need to seriously reassess you postions, and be sure to ask for a window seat on the train to the camps.
To put Bush in his place you'll vote for a party that opposed the War in Afghanistan, oppsed the War in Iraq and wants open borders? Could you explain that logic to me?
Well, if I did, it wouldn't be over 10-round magazine clips that are widely available anyway. One thing you purists must learn to understand (this for the sensible ones, not the name callers who are obviously just too smart for me). None of us will ever get to be the dictator of the U.S. We can't have it all just our way. Social Security is here to stay. Get used to it. Abortion will always be legal somewhere (New York, Massachusetts, and California will NOT ban it if Roe v. Wade is overturned). And there will always be a limit to the second amendment (you will never regain the right to own a machine gun).
That's life. And you know what? Even with all that, this is a GREAT country. You must fight for what you believe in, but don't go into hysterics when you don't get everything you want. And, for some of you, debate with dignity, and don't fall into the arrogant name-calling and condescension that we despise from the left.
As for the train ride to the camps, well, I don't think the assault weapons ban (which has been law for almost ten years, during which time right-to-carry has expanded to nearly every state) renewal is the slippery slope that is going to get us there. Bush is smart not to fight it. It's simply not worth the political capital.