Your predictions for a Biden presidency and guns

[MillCreek]

From our relatively new Bloomberg legislation on the definition of assault rifle:  https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9.41.010#:~:text=(27)%20%22Semiautomatic%20assault%20rifle,trigger%20to%20fire%20each%20cartridge.

27) "Semiautomatic assault rifle" means any rifle which utilizes a portion of the energy of a firing cartridge to extract the fired cartridge case and chamber the next round, and which requires a separate pull of the trigger to fire each cartridge.

So a Ruger 10/22 is a semi-automatic assault rifle under Washington law.

[DittoHead]

I tentatively disagree on the senate. It's going to be the slimmest of majorities this year - like 1 or 2. I can think of several Rs who would jump ship on the 2nd. They'll stand firm on stuff like taxes, but will gladly vote with Ds on "reasonable" gun control. Are there any Ds left who would support the 2nd? I'm thinking not.

If we're talking AWB, McConnell won't even let it get to a vote. Those 1 or 2 won't be given the opportunity to jump.

[MillCreek]

Things may be gridlocked:

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/biden-faces-prospect-of-gridlock-presidency-after-party-losses/

[Angel Eyes]

Things may be gridlocked:

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/biden-faces-prospect-of-gridlock-presidency-after-party-losses/

Let's hope so.

[RocketMan]

Things may be gridlocked:

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/biden-faces-prospect-of-gridlock-presidency-after-party-losses/

While six Senate races remain undecided, Democrats would need an extraordinary surge as states finish counting votes to win three of them — enough for the minimum 50 seats they’d need to control the chamber.

Let's not engage in wishful thinking.  There was a lot of wishful thinking on this board regarding Trump being re-elected.  The Dems managing to land three of the six Senate seats still undecided would not be a surprise at all.

[HankB]

Let's not engage in wishful thinking.  There was a lot of wishful thinking on this board regarding Trump being re-elected.  The Dems managing to land three of the six Senate seats still undecided would not be a surprise at all.

All it would take is another couple of 138,000 vote ballot dumps that go 100% democrat.

[French G.]

This will be a slow motion dumpster fire, especially if they can get both GA seats to a run-off. Be more TV time for Stacy Abhrams.

[Boomhauer]

Maybe.

How many members of the 2021 Congress were in Congress when the 1994 AWB was passed?  Do they remember the political cost for the Democrats?

Certain members such as "the squad" are too young to remember, or don't care.
Some of them are not stupid.  Others ...

The difference is now they have the national fraud angle locked up to retain power. No more chance of being thrown out. Let’s not also forget the “suicide bomber” mentality that the left has with little regard for consequences.

[RoadKingLarry]

My prediction on the political side. If this goes as I suspect it does and Harris wins we will never see another republican president, let alone anything resembling a conservative. A significant number of Trump's former administration prosecuted persecuted along with Trump himself on all sorts of bullshit charges.

As to the attack on gun rights -
A few things I wouldn't be surprised to see. National/federal level red flag law. The ATF adding lots of currently legal stuff to the NFA list by a stroke of the pen. A watered down "common sense" AWB that gets OK'd by the spineless republicans because it's for the children.

[HeroHog]

From our relatively new Bloomberg legislation on the definition of assault rifle:  https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9.41.010#:~:text=(27)%20%22Semiautomatic%20assault%20rifle,trigger%20to%20fire%20each%20cartridge.

27) "Semiautomatic assault rifle" means any rifle which utilizes a portion of the energy of a firing cartridge to extract the fired cartridge case and chamber the next round, and which requires a separate pull of the trigger to fire each cartridge.

So a Ruger 10/22 is a semi-automatic assault rifle under Washington law.

No, that means ANY semiauto rifle is a "Semiautomatic assault rifle".

[MillCreek]

No, that means ANY semiauto rifle is a "Semiautomatic assault rifle".

True, but we like to quote the 10/22 example to show how flawed the law is.

[Ben]

A few things I wouldn't be surprised to see. National/federal level red flag law.

I forgot about that. This morning the senate is being projected at 50-50, with several sites saying 51-50 dem majority. A Federal red flag law is an easy win because so many "law and order" Rs think it's a good thing. Prepare for your neighbor to rat you out as a gun nut because they're mad that you haven't cut your lawn for a couple of weeks.

[RocketMan]

A 50-50 Senate is a Dem majority with a Dem vice president.  If that is the case, then 2021 will effectively be the year the republic ends.  The voters wanted socialism, now they are going to get it good and hard.  In ten or twelve years we will all know what living in Venezuela is like.
At this point I really don't give a rat's ass, except that I fear for my kids and grandkids well being. 

[Ben]

A 50-50 Senate is a Dem majority with a Dem vice president.  If that is the case, then 2021 will effectively be the year the republic ends.  The voters wanted socialism, now they are going to get it good and hard.  In ten or twelve years we will all know what living in Venezuela is like.
At this point I really don't give a rat's ass, except that I fear for my kids and grandkids well being. 

To the socialism point, I would not be surprised if AOC becomes the House speaker:

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2020/11/06/super-popular-nancy-pelosi-is-officially-running-for-house-speaker-again/

[RoadKingLarry]

Not my Speaker

[WLJ]

Budsgunshop.com running like molasses in Antarctica. I wonder why?

[WLJ]

I think their server just crashed

[RocketMan]

Why are folks buying firearms now when anyone with a lick of sense knows all semi-autos will soon be illegal, and there will be no grandfathering this time around.  The Dems have made their intentions very clear over the course of the campaign.
Yeah, sure, tragic boating accidents or turning the guns in one bullet at a time.

[WLJ]

Yeah, sure, tragic boating accidents

More believable than hundreds of thousands "lost" ballots being found and not one Trump vote among them

[TommyGunn]

Why are folks buying firearms now when anyone with a lick of sense knows all semi-autos will soon be illegal, and there will be no grandfathering this time around.  The Dems have made their intentions very clear over the course of the campaign.
Yeah, sure, tragic boating accidents or turning the guns in one bullet at a time.

I'm not buying them.  I have my evil black rifles.  MOLON LABE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Nick1911]

A 50-50 Senate is a Dem majority with a Dem vice president.  If that is the case, then 2021 will effectively be the year the republic ends.  The voters wanted socialism, now they are going to get it good and hard.  In ten or twelve years we will all know what living in Venezuela is like.
At this point I really don't give a rat's ass, except that I fear for my kids and grandkids well being. 

Why do you think the US will end up like Venezuela, especially on that short of a timeline, vs more like the socialist countries of Europe, or shoot, Canada?

[AZRedhawk44]

Why do you think the US will end up like Venezuela, especially on that short of a timeline, vs more like the socialist countries of Europe, or shoot, Canada?

^^This.

Their plan has always been starvation/attrition through time.  Like a constrictor snake eating a large meal.  Hold, strangle, advance.  Rinse and repeat.

Honestly if you want Dem/statist/RINO defeat for good, hope for bankruptcy of the nation.  Or a superior currency (coughcryptocough) to displace the dollar for global trade or banking.

Give them their policies and sufficient rope to hang themselves.  They'll "free beer" their way into poverty.  Hide your own assets.

They'll start off like Canada or the Netherlands.  Venezuela won't happen for another 25 years when they spend the nation's credit away and have to start seizing property to appease creditors.

[WLJ]

As gun far outright banning guns many of you are assuming Biden and team have any intention of keeping campaign promises. The moment they meet any resistance they'll could very just go "well, we tried" and move on to higher vote buying priorities such as reparations. Outright banning guns would lose them more votes in the long term than gain

[JN01]

As gun far outright banning guns many of you are assuming Biden and team have any intention of keeping campaign promises. The moment they meet any resistance they'll could very just go "well, we tried" and move on to higher vote buying priorities such as reparations. Outright banning guns would lose them more votes in the long term than gain

Doesn't matter how many votes they lose when they can make up the difference with fradulent votes.

[RocketMan]

Why do you think the US will end up like Venezuela, especially on that short of a timeline, vs more like the socialist countries of Europe, or shoot, Canada?

Which countries in Europe are truly socialist and not just highly regulated and overtaxed.  Go ahead, count them up.  I'll wait.
Meanwhile, have you not been listening to the Democrats?  They have made their intentions very clear.