i live in wisconsin, and yes, i am referring to obama's new laws. Do they even make 10 round magazines for that pistol?

Okay, civics lesson

The president does not get to make laws.  The president can decide the specifics on how laws are enforced, and this is where executive orders come in.  How does that work?  Lots of laws are like the speed limit, there is flexibility in how they are enforced (ever get a ticket for doing 56 in a 55 MPH zone?) and they fall within a spectrum of importance.  (a cop leaves the guy who was doing 85 in a 55 when he hears about the robbery in progress).  Executive orders allow the government employees to refocus their efforts.


However, for issues that are currently legal, it takes new laws to change that.  Many of Obama's executive orders were basically wish-list items for a future bill.  However that bill doesn't even exist yet, let alone is it ready to be signed into law.

We have no idea if a new law will allow magazines to be grandfathered in, or if they will be demanding you surrender all your guns.  The best way to deal with this is to contact your law maker and tell them you think any sort of ban based on numbers of rounds in a magazine is like arguing about how many angels can fit on the head of a pin...it is a waste of time, and that you will remember how they vote on gun bills when it becomes time for you to vote in the elections.

One of Diane Feinstein’s excuses as to why the 1994-2004 ban was so ineffective was the fact that everything was grandfathered.

Today there are millions more of these guns. Millions more of these magazines. She put the NFA registry for “grandfathered” guns in her proposed bill because this way when you eventually die your banned items become the property of the US govt. Essentially taking these “evil” guns out of circulation. This is something that she will NOT want to compromise on whatsoever. But that mandatory registry is EXACTLY what will kill any chances of it passing. She could take out the magazine restrictions and it would still fail.

So by her own strategy and her unwillingness to remove the mandatory registration she has killed her own bill by her own hand.

Harry Reid is pretty much a bastard on every other issue but he gets an A rating from the NRA for good reason. He comes from a state that’s HUGE on gun rights. Harry wants to keep his job. And Harry isn’t stupid. He stated on record that they don’t have the votes. He doesn’t WANT to see this bill pass. Even if he votes against it many dems will lose their jobs. Come midterm Obama would have to face a republican majority In the house AND the senate. The next president (if Democrat) would face the first two years of their presidency in a bad place.

This doesn’t mean we should all breathe a sigh of relief and let down our guard. We need to constantly bombard our politicians and reps. Remind the liberal ones of what happened in 1996. But as for a federal ban/mag restriction, I don’t see it happening. On a state level is an entirely different story.