In a way you're absolutely right. But it may be a little more than merely the desire to retain a political career. The infamous California AW ban(s) hang by a legal thread. Roberti-Roos was upheld in the 1992 Fresno Rod and Gun Club case decided by the well-known 9th Circuit Court. The case law cited for this really bad and dishonest decision was none other then Miller and Cruikshank, both of which have been butchered in the courts over the decades. The 5th Circuit's Emerson dicta may or may not have an impact on the future of unconstitutional gun control (all of them) laws. That remains to be seen.
But Lockyer and Davis are standing on very flimsy legal ground in their desire to screw the citizens out of the RKBA. It is my fondest political wish (along with the Repubos regaining a majority in the US Senate) that the damn AW bans are overturned. They are the most egregiously unconstitutional gun laws.
Lockyer is not only dishonest, but he is a damn liar and a hypocrit. If he really thought there was strong legal standing in his assinine opinion that there is NO individual right to keep and bear, he and his commie minions in the Cal government would have passed a law simply banning the sale and possession of ALL guns.
I understand where you're coming from, where you want to go and why. But Lockyer and Davis don't get elected on what they accomplish, its that their name gets repeated over and over again. I was a bit annoyed that CRPA put the bullet tax victory on the front page with its authors name. I'll bet he laughed all the way across the Richmond bridge.
These people are Fabians and their tactic is to stall and wear down opponents. I think we are playing their game by our own too gentlemanly rules. We need some pictures of Lockyer with some "Evening Ladies" and we ought to be willing to pay for them, posting as a metaphor of course. (of course)