BOHICA...Or, the Donks just can't keep their filthy mitts off of my stuff.

Just when I thought the tanking economic news of the world was drowning out any talk of...well, anything else, we get smacked with comments from the new, craven AG;

"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,"

Nevermind the misuse of terms, here, as they (he) is purposefully applying terminology that he has no concept of.

"...putting the ban back in place would not only be a positive move by the
United States, it would help cut down on the flow of guns going across the
border into Mexico, which is struggling with heavy violence among drug cartels
along the border."

"Positive", by whose standards, Eric? Not mine, because I'm an American, and am free to look upon your proposed standard as nothing more than statist, authoritarian bullshit.

"I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum."

Really? How can you be so sure, and are more importantly, are we supposed to be kowtowing to Mexico for some reason? Do we fucking owe them something, Eric?

The hit piece continues;

"Mexican government officials have complained that the availability of sophisticated guns from the United States have emboldened drug traffickers to fight over access routes into the U.S."

Sophisticated? How so? A gun isn't a very sophisticated piece of equipment. Is there something about being in Mexico that makes it impossible to assemble working guns from the confines of a cave? I mean, the Afghans at the Khyber Pass do it with hammer, hand drills and files. Mexico has had some serious industrialization for quite some time. So, how deep is this sophisticated bullshit you are selling, Jason Ryan?

Then the asshole segues into this, a warning from some bureaubot at the State Department;

"Some recent Mexican army and police confrontations with drug cartels have resembled small-unit combat, with cartels employing automatic weapons and grenades,"

So tell me, are these gangs getting fully automatic (true assault weapons) from the US, where the possession of such has required a federally mandated registration and tax stamp, since the NFA, in1934? Are they getting explosive ordnance, ya know, those grenades you mentioned, from John Q. Public too? Asswipe.

Then this;

"I think closing the gun show loophole, the banning of cop-killer bullets and I also think that making the assault weapons ban permanent, would be something that would be permitted under Heller," Holder said"

Hey, Holder, you'd best cover that shit up, your stupid is showing.

The truth here is that there is no such thing as a "loophole" in any form, much less at gunshows, or even "cop-killer" bullets, you mental midget. You're watching too much Hollywood bullshit. And I don't give a shit about your "definitions" of such, they are specious and arbitrary, in all regards. And as far as the Heller ruling goes, yeah, it probably would be permitted under that piece of shit, directly from Scalia's majority decision;

"Like most rights, the Second Amendment is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose." (and) "should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms."

Which shows that there is nothing more necessary than for the Gummint to just make up some more rules for us plebians to jump through, so we can all go plead to the fucking Supremes, yet again, for them to "give" us our rights back. Fucking spineless douchebag lawyer talk. All of it.

Guess the Donks didn't learn their lesson very well from '94, did they? Not sure it matters at this point, regardless.

I'm sitting here, seething.