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This thread is awesome. I haven't looked in eons and didn't even know Merkyl was back. I had missed his and Nubber's vaguely prurient interactions. Huzzah!



Regarding something someone argued about a ways back, btw, ammunition prices are through the roof because gun owners are worried Obama and the Democrats will ban some of them, like a renewed assault weapons ban or worse. The catalogs I get have disclaimers at the top saying something like "sorry our prices are so high suddenly, but political uncertainties have resulted in sudden changes in the firearms industry," etc.

However, a new ban ain't happening, even if Obama wants it to, because the votes simply aren't there in the Senate. The evidence is this: There's a bill that would give D.C. a voting representative in the House, and the Dem leadership has been unable to complete it because the Senate by a 62-36 vote attached language that would erase D.C. restrictions on high-capacity semi-automatic weapons. Twenty-two (!) Democrats voted for it, including Harry Reid:


Baucus, M. (MT)
Bayh (IN)
Begich (AK)
Bennet (CO)
Byrd (WV)
Casey (PA)
Conrad (ND)
Dorgan (ND)
Feingold (WI)
Hagan (NC)
Johnson, Tim (SD)
Landrieu (LA)
Lincoln (AR)
McCaskill (MO)
Nelson, Ben (NE)
Pryor (AR)
Reid, H. (NV)
Tester (MT)
Udall, (CO)
Udall, (NM)
Warner (VA)
Webb (VA)

So now the bill is stuck in limbo because the House leadership doesn't want the gun language included in the bill.

Anyway, the bottom line is that unless the Democrats wind up with 80 seats in the Senate, "gun control" remains doomed as an issue.