Paranoia strikes deep

[Niner]

I get these emails from my friends. One came today with another the sky is falling notice. A guy named Alan Korwan, who publishes gun law books, makes paid speaking tours, and plays in a rock band, says the secret is out and Obama and the democrats are sure to take away a long list of guns. The list includes, besides named actual assualt weapons, semi autos like most M1 carbines. It goes on to want to ban every kind of semi-auto rifle that holds more than ten rounds in a fixed magazine or less rounds in a detachable magazine. Lets all get ourselves into a rage is the email message.

What is not said is that the proposal , said to be offered by the Brady Campaigne, if true, comes from a source that hardly owns enough politicians to insure any outcome. And the Brady Campaigne has long wanted to ban at least as much as the latest beware email suggests. The NRA owns more politians than Brady, even though they probably ran more than a few off with political rants and side taking in elections over recent years.

I haven't looked at the NRA site but I got a feeling they might put their two cents in....along with a request to send them some money.

Now I'm starting to get that paranoid feeling....from more sides than one.

Edit:

Just went to the NRA site. Looks like the new plan is really not all that new and here is this quote as to a legislative offering:

Current Efforts to Ban “Assault Weapons”
H.R. 1022, introduced by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), would ban every gun banned in 1994, plus guns made to comply with the ban; guns exempted by the ban; fixed-magazine, semi-automatic, center-fire rifles holding more than 10 rounds; semi-automatic shotguns; detachable-magazine semi-automatic rifles; and any semi-automatic shotgun or rifle an Attorney General one day claims isn’t “sporting.”......

This legislation was proposed in February of 2007. Nothing became of it.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-1022