I think the age of stupid and clunky anti-gun laws is over. Whoever they have on the other side, actually understands the firearms and they are playing the long game by passing pieces of legislation that they can eventually link together. They still haven’t quite gotten to the point of realizing or being able to pass a real registration. I think that’s because they realize they’ll never be able to confiscate this many guns. They’ll just make them illegal and have you deal with the consequences, and stop new sales so that after a generation, they’re all gone anyway.. At least for law, abiding people. We still have the same number of guns, but they’ll be more concentrated in actual criminal hands. Won’t that be fun.

The Supreme Court is still angling to take an assault weapons bans and a magazine ban case this next term. I think Paul is a smart enough politician to put the kibosh on this if there is no real gain, and only potential pain for a national run for him. of course, that makes it more likely for the other gun stuff to get through. The gun grabbers have put up the assault weapons bans as a way to make sure that their other stuff actually gets through.