Jason Ryan of ABC News is reporting that Attorney General Eric Holder announced at a press conference today [Wednesday, Feb. 25 - DB] that the Obama administration wants to reinstate a Federal ban on semi-automatic firearms.
[Link to Amendment II Democrats blog entry on MySpace]
"As President Obama indicated during the campaign," Holder told reporters, "there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons."
But here's the punchline: Holder actually believes that any new ban on semi-automatics would pass muster with DC v. Heller. In other words, he took the Brady Campaign bait - hook, line, and sinker.
For starters, here's the Attorney General's address:
Attorney General Eric Holder
United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
(202)353-1555
We still have ten Democrats in the Senate who will likely vote to block any such ban from becoming law. If all Senate Republicans also vote against the ban, then that means these ten Democratic Senators have the power to kill it on the Senate floor as long as they do not falter in defense of your Constitutional rights.
The time for sitting on the sidelines is over. Get up. Get motivated. Get busy. It looks like President Obama's "honeymoon" just ended.