He was on the BoD of the Joyce Foundation.

The Joyce Fnd. pays the bills for almost every Gun Control group in the country.

Now I’m going to the range. (new shooters today woo-hoo!)

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=305420655186700

BuckeyeSam on September 6, 2008 at 3:26 PM

Is this for real, BuckeyeSam? If so, this makes BHO even more scary than I originally thought…and I thought he was pretty damned scary! Sounds like he would be forming a private army around himself, but why? The president is already commander-in-chief of all armed forces. Would this be an attempt to get around posse comitatis (sp) and send an armed force against Americans who don’t bow to his supreme will? I may simply be paranoid, but I do know that even paranoids have enemies.

There’s the reality of people who are lawfully and safely using guns for hunting and skeet-shooting and protecting their families, and you’ve got illegal handguns being dumped in Philadelphia

In other words, you can keep your hunting guns and use them to protect your family. And I’ve got to wonder what is an illegal handgun to Obama. If he didn’t believe handguns to be illegal, that sentence would have been handguns being illegally dumped. It’s the dumping that is illegal, not the handgun.

The bottom line is this: if you’ve gotta rifle, you gotta shotgun, you gotta gun in your house, I’m not takin’ it away. Alright, so I, uh, they can keep on talkin’ about it, but this is just not true

And again he reaffirms his position, rifle, shotgun, that is the gun in your house. Those are the firearms Obama will allow us to keep.

On June 26, 2008, the Supreme Court endorsed that same view. Although it ruled that the D.C. gun ban went too far, Justice Scalia himself acknowledged that this right is not absolute and subject to reasonable regulations enacted by local communities to keep their streets safe.

And-

I support the re-imposition of the ban on the sale of assault weapons that expired in September 2004 because I believe these guns are used primarily for criminal rather than sporting intent. I also support requiring gun manufacturers to install child safety locks on all of their products.

Still think he won’t come after guns, AP?

Barack Obama Wants to Take Away Your Guns

I’m not exactly sure how this latest SCOTUS decision would play out if Obama was able to swing the court to his position with future appointments. But it seems to me that some more learned interpretors of that decision felt they left some wiggle room. That bothers me.
Texas Gal on September 6, 2008 at 9:29 PM

I found the video on his Friday gun-talk It’s a pro-Bambi vid by something called “The Collective Action Roundtable” of AfriSynergy Productions, but his PA talk is at the beginning, following a few seconds of butterflies and African music.

I think he has a quicker plan than using the SCOTUS for gun control, since that failed. He’ll use Executive Orders — like trigger locks and no-carry, DC style — for your safety, and to prevent those poor gang-banger kids from killing themselves, of course:

Partial transcription, including blatant lies about the NRA:

“Now the NRA sometimes — I mean, I’ll be honest — and I’m sure there’s some NRA members here. Their general attitude is, look, we don’t want anything! And if you even breathe the word “gun control” or gun safety, then you must wanna take away everybody’s guns. Well that’s just not true. But what we have to understand is that ther’re two realities about guns in this country. There’s the reality of people who are lawfully and safely using guns for hunting and skeet-shooting and protecting their families, and you’ve got illegal handguns being dumped in Philadelphia, in the hands of teenage gang-bangers and drug-dealers who are wrecking (sic) havoc and killing people. And surely, we can come up with a system that protects lawful gun-owners but at the same time tries ta do somethin’ about kids getting shot.

“And, and, and, and…that’s the only tha… that is I think the job of the President, is to reconcile this tradition of gun ownership in this country….uh, with some basic public safety concerns. The bottom line is this: if you’ve gotta rifle, you gotta shotgun, you gotta gun in your house, I’m not takin’ it away. Alright, so I, uh, they can keep on talkin’ about it, but this is just not true. And by the way, even if…here, here’s another thing you gotta understand. Even if I wanted to take it away, I couldn’t get it done. I don’t have the votes in Congress.”

All hail the messiah
Obama, Obama
The path to the new socialist motherland
Our savior, our savior
Obama, Obama
The leader more famous than Lindsay Lohan
Bow down and praise the one
Give him your money and your guns
Give us a country
That makes your wife proud
Lord Barry heal the bitter ones
White and Clinging to faith and to guns
Hope for the change of the hope of the change!

Hilarious!

As I read it, he’s making a simple rhetorical point to try to moot gun owners’ paranoia, like McCain telling a group of pro-choice voters, “I’m not going to issue a decree banning abortion. Even if I wanted to, I lack the constitutional authority.”
[Emphasis added.]

You misread it. Obama didn’t say “even if I wanted to take them away,” as the subject line misleadingly suggests. That would have been the normal use of the rhetorical device you describe (note the subjunctive in your McCain hypothetical), and would have sent a clear signal that he was discussing a counterfactual scenario, and does not in fact want to take them away. Instead he used the indicative where we would normally expect the subjunctive, as if to say that he either does want to take them away, or at best, he hasn’t made up his mind whether he does or not. Cf. O.J.’s infamous “If I Did It,” vs. what any truly innocent person would have said instead, “If I Had Done It.”

Last and least, it’s an odd use of the word “paranoia” to describe the view that Obama may still hold the same views on guns he has espoused for years, and has yet to renounce.

-Obama On The 2nd Amendment-
___________________________
Even if I wanted to take your guns away from you

[photo of unhappy Barack]

I don’t have the votes.”

(yet)

Oh, and semioh, the confiscation already happened once in LA after Katrina. And the cops have avoided returning as many of the guns as possible, even under court order. And those they have returned were improperly stored so they are coming back rusty, warped, and generally unusable.

SDN on September 6, 2008 at 9:43 PM

QFT

Ray “Willy Wonka” Nagon was quite proud to destroy hundreds of thousands of dollars of guns through negligence.

Oh, and semioh, the confiscation already happened once in LA after Katrina. And the cops have avoided returning as many of the guns as possible, even under court order. And those they have returned were improperly stored so they are coming back rusty, warped, and generally unusable.

Sigmund, if you are making “professional diagnosis” here, you can provide us all with the states you are licensed in. Then those of us who live in those states can file complaints, and those of us who don’t can file charges on you for practicing medicine in our states without a license.

Otherwise, you’re just another lying leftard.

I’m not exactly sure how this latest SCOTUS decision would play out if Obama was able to swing the court to his position with future appointments. But it seems to me that some more learned interpretors of that decision felt they left some wiggle room. That bothers me.

If he’s elected, I’ll immediately buy another firearm.

The only remaining question would be… M4, or .38 Super?

(To go with my Colt .45 Auto)

knob on September 6, 2008 at 1:36 PM

knob, Get yourself something with range. You’ve got the short range stopper now you need to be able to reach out and touch someone if needed.

I’ve got one for each distance. 30/30, AR15, Beretta semi shotgun and my glock. If the “zombie” horde gets through all that then I’ve got my Dad’s K-Bar he carried in Vietnam.

he wants a manpower pool as large as the military….

sven10077 on September 6, 2008 at 8:22 PM

If drafted, I will not serve.

This whole silly thought of his, is quite unconstitutional. BUT it does shed light into his dark and freedom usurping political philosophy.

But, what about mine and the other 100,000 concealed carry participants in Ohio?

Benjamin9 on September 6, 2008 at 7:53 PM

he wants a manpower pool as large as the military….

I have no doubt that Obama does plan to move towards the banning of handguns … period.

Texas Gal on September 6, 2008 at 7:44 PM

Hope I’m wrong.