(GunReports.com) — From the GunPoliticsNY.com blog:
Today is the 17th anniversary of the Brady Law and the Brady Bunch are celebrating. They are clearly hoping to relive their glory days.
Back then gun control was in vogue and the Brady’s (under the Handgun Control banner) were riding high. They just passed their signature legislation and would follow it up a year later with the ugly gun and magazine ban. Jim & Sarah were welcomed to the White House for signing ceremonies. They were clearly on a roll … right up until the ’94 elections …
So, where is the gun control movement today?
- The Supreme Court affirmed that the 2nd Amendment is a fundamental individual right, ending the antis ultimate dream of total firearms prohibition.
- No new federal gun control laws have passed in years despite there being a Democrat in theWhite House and Democrat supermajorities in both the House and Senate for the past two years.
- No new state gun control laws have passed in New York over the last decade.
- Antigun members of Congress like Carolyn McCarthy won’t reintroduce proposals to reinstate the expired Clinton gun ban even as a symbolic gesture.
- Antigun members of the state legislature stopped trying to advance all but one gun control bill this year for the first time in I don’t know how many years.
- The national agenda has shifted from passing legislation to boycotting Starbucks and that’s not working either.
- Money is drying up.
- Their loudest supporter Mayor Bloomberg senses trouble on the horizon for his fiefdom, while another, Governor Ed Rendell, has surrendered.
- The Assembly Republicans are inviting gun owners to come to Albany to lobby in January and actually putting some effort into getting people to show up.
How the mighty have fallen.
