Our Paranoia Paid Off?

**jahwarrior72** · February 24th, 2010, 02:44 PM

maybe. it seems the Obama administration is pissing off the gun control lobby lately. it seems that the fear of backlash from gun rights advocates actually worked. this is partly an answer to this thread: http://forum.pafoa.org/lounge-108/91...s-against.html

i direct you to this article from the New York Times, of all places:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/us...er=rss&emc=rss

Fearing Obama Agenda, States Push to Loosen Gun LawsBy IAN URBINA
Published: February 23, 2010

When President Obama took office, gun rights advocates sounded the alarm, warning that he intended to strip them of their arms and ammunition.

And yet the opposite is happening. Mr. Obama has been largely silent on the issue while states are engaged in a new and largely successful push for expanded gun rights, even passing measures that have been rejected in the past.

In Virginia, the General Assembly approved a bill last week that allows people to carry concealed weapons in bars and restaurants that serve alcohol, and the House of Delegates voted to repeal a 17-year-old ban on buying more than one handgun a month. The actions came less than three years after the shootings at Virginia Tech that claimed 33 lives and prompted a major national push for increased gun control.

Arizona and Wyoming lawmakers are considering nearly a half dozen pro-gun measures, including one that would allow residents to carry concealed weapons without a permit. And lawmakers in Montana and Tennessee passed measures last year — the first of their kind — to exempt their states from federal regulation of firearms and ammunition that are made, sold and used in state. Similar bills have been proposed in at least three other states.

In the meantime, gun control advocates say, Mr. Obama has failed to deliver on campaign promises to close a loophole that allows unlicensed dealers at gun shows to sell firearms without background checks; to revive the assault weapons ban; and to push states to release data about guns used in crimes.

He also signed bills last year allowing guns to be carried in national parks and in luggage on Amtrak trains.