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Sorry for using an overwrought cliché, but this should be a wake up call to those who thought Obama would ‘Let us keep our guns’.

Consider that the O’Communists are probably in a quandary on how to take away everyone's guns.

They have two main courses of action to reach their ultimate goal, the National Emergency Confiscation route and the Incremental route.

A).The “All at once”, National emergency, martial law Confiscation route.
The National emergency confiscation route has the advantage of needing only one ‘Crisis’ to implement. There is no need for legislation or compromise, it's just, Hey we're declaring marital law (in response to a terrorist attack or some such) and we're taking your guns, deal with it lowly subjects.

The downside is that this instantly changes 100+ million gun owners from lawful persons to people that need to be ‘suppressed’, a very difficult task indeed.

It will also mean the end of the rule of law, the Constitution and the Country (I won't say ‘as we know it’, because most people realize that's already happened)

B).The incremental, ‘take away our freedoms one step at a time’, route

This has the distinct advantage that it doesn't instantly create 100+ million lawbreakers and doesn't destroy the country right away.

The disadvantage is that we've seen this song and dance before, and not many are going to far for it, especially since they need to get to their ultimate goal in a matter of months instead of the several-year time-frame the gun-grabbers are use to.

The ‘we need to restrict your freedoms in response to this or that Crisis’ routine is going to wear thin pretty fast if they try it every couple of months.

And it's a multi-step process to get their nirvana of controlling all the guns (in the hands of the lawful citizens, of course). They need to start out with some restrictions on purchases of guns and ammunition.
Then moving on to having a paper trail on every lawful gun purchase, followed by registration (with plenty of Taxes and fees thereon, if there's one thing the O’Communists love more than grabbing guns, it's grabbing your hard earned cash).
Followed by, (drumroll) CONFISCATING Everyone's guns.
And remember, expect them to swear up and down that don't want to CONFISCATE your guns at each and every step of the way.(except for the last step, they don't expect us to be THAT stupid)

Given these circumstances, it would seem like they will go for a “Hybrid” approach (they love that word), and begin with Incremental route and then transition to the National Emergency Confiscation route when they've pushed that as far as they can.

What do you think? They want to do this, the question is HOW will they do it?