I missed this when it happened, but my friend Greg just emailed me a link to the Brady Campaign’s wish list to President-Elect Obama.
Let’s see, repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, close the gun show loophole, ban “assault weapons”, prevent people on the terror watch list from buying guns, pretty much standard fare for the Brady Campaign. I’d say that they’re showing their cards early, but these are the same talking points they’ve been grinding about for the last 8 years – it’s just now they’ve got a friendly congress and president.
It’s going to be a loooong 4 years.
It’s a Wish list for a reason.
I’ve already seen proof of the fact that Congress lipserviced the Brady campaign by failing to even address the gun show “loophole” in the next session of Congress (a few Senators apparently promised they’d get it on the very next agenda).
Is it on there? Nope. Not even in the footnotes. And there are some angry anti-gun people out there right now, steaming in their soup.
Made me chuckle anyway.