Democrat Nancy Pelosi is already promising a gun control push when her party takes control of the House in January. (Screen snip, YouTube)
By Dave Workman
Senior Editor
In the wake of November’s midterm elections that flipped control of the U.S. House of Representatives back to the Democrats, firearms industry insiders are looking at storm clouds on the political horizon.
According to Jim Shepherd, editor of The Outdoor Wire, “With the Democratic party now in control of the House of Representatives, the unvarnished truth is that gun owners and the firearms industry should expect nothing positive.”
Likewise, Larry Keane, general counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, wrote on his blog that the “new” Congress has the same ideas as the “old” Congress. He predicted, “It will be the same old ideas that ignore the truth that anytime there is criminal misuse of guns, multiple laws already on the books have been broken.”
According to the Washington Examiner, anti-gunners are preparing to essentially wage war on the gun issue in the House. Perhaps by no coincidence, considering the passage of anti-rights Initiative 1639 in Washington State, there has been an uptick in interest and concern about gun rights from people contacting the National Rifle Association, Second Amendment Foundation, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms or other gun rights organizations they support.
“These old ideas are readily at hand to proffer,” Keane wrote, “but if passed into law they only affect law-abiding citizens and not those intent on criminality or murder.
“The ‘gun lobby’ will be vilified,” he continued. “Suggestions will be made that anyone offering objections is condoning violence or complicit in murder. We will be schooled that it is the availability of this style of rifle in this caliber or that handgun with this capacity magazine that must be further curtailed or ended.”
Pelosi has made no secret that when Democrats are back in the majority, there will be an effort to pass “bipartisan legislation (for) common sense background checks to prevent guns going into the wrong hands.”
However, the kind of comprehensive checks she appears to favor are already the law in her home state of California, and they did not prevent the recent mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, nor did they stop spree killer Elliot Rodger when he legally purchased three handguns that he used in the Isla Vista shooting and stabbing slayings four years ago. The Thousand Oaks killer also legally bought the handgun used to murder a dozen people at a Ventura County bar and grill, including a sheriff’s sergeant.
So far, the establishment media has not challenged Pelosi about what appears to have been a gun control failure.
