I bet that the answer is, "Yes"! Bush has always been in favor of the AW ban; his campaign website in 2000 made no bones about it at all. Yet, he signed shall issue CCW legislation as Governor of Texas. I think Bush is in favor of "some gun control" and would not hesitate to sign any and all laws that Congress forwarded to him. After all ,he has nothing to lose by doing so. Bush is also a shrewd politician.
My support for him (and the Repubo Party) in the last election hinged almost totally on the successful sunsetting of the 1994 AW ban. Yet, he did not actually say anything other than that he was in favor of AW bans; the Republican Congress let him off the hook by not bringing the McCarthy bill forward for a vote. In the House it would surely have been defeated. But nothing is a sure thing when dealing with politicians whose job descriptions begin with the statement, "Must be a consummate liar."
Instead of getting State legislation re-iterating the US Constitutions stance on the Second Amendment, which would have in turn "given" us Alaska style CCW.
This did not bode well for his understanding of what a Constitution is, nor what it is supposed to do. He has proven since gaining the Oval Office to only having a passing aquaintance with the very document that gives him the pwoer he now has.
No reason to expect hims to change his stripes now either...