Keep in mind that Governor Erlich was elected in part for his stance on the 'ballistic fingerprinting' issue and general statements which indicated a sentiment toward repealing useless gun laws, and this has state/local implications as well.
In general, there seems to be an increase in eeeevil gun stories out there, (though it may just be my perception). I expect that the rhetoric will get worse as November approaches.
On the brighter side, it illustrates that the Dems plan to continue their anti-gun rhetoric, which has already cost them votes at the state and national levels.
Exactly!! Even if I never paid attention to politics and the calendar, around here locally I can always tell when it is an election year. All of a sudden, the local leftist rag starts regularly running stories on police busts of prostitution or dirty book stores. Never fails. Doesn't have to be a national election year, just one where locals are being elected by trumpeting how "hard on crime" they are. Local sheriffs are bad, but the leftist pols who "own" them (viz. are their "elected" bosses) will make sure there are plenty of fodder for those stories. And the local leftist rags just salivate to spread them across the front page. What in the previous non-election year would end up page D-9 in the police blotter- if then- now gets front page above the fold on a slow news day. "It's fer the chilrun"... and all that horsepucky.
Same thing is starting with gunshops if there's a liberal, leftist who thinks he/she can "buy" the lawnorder votes of the naive socialist soccer moms. And in the blue cities around here, there's plenty of both of those to go around. [Think Patty Murray in Seattle, Gov. Queen Christine, etc. The latter who holds office only by the obvious and documented corruption of King County elections.]
Yup, crack down on the ho's, porn and guns, but go easy on the meth, crack, murderers, rapists and serial killers- because they vote Democrat.
This is what I was trying to point out to the DumpsterHead guy... the gun dealer doesn't have to do anything to be targeted, and if he is, there isn't anything he can do about it. And the WaPo will make a saint look like a mafia hitman to further the gungrabbing.
And once they have selected you, it doesn't make any difference how good your paperwork is, you are going down. Too bad the BATFE can't meet their own paperwork criteria, as noted by some other posters.