Long term thoughts on guns
David Hardy has some thoughts worth reading:
Another way to look at the trend. Brady Campaign started out as National Coalition to Control Handguns. I have its early pamphlets, in which it argues that registration and permit systems were bad ideas. That’s because it wanted a complete handgun ban, testified to that effect, and thought a national permit system would be proposed as a compromise (attesting to the weak condition it thought the gun movement was in). Later, as Handgun Control, Inc., it disavowed handgun bans and advocated permit systems, the very compromise it had earlier feared. As Brady Campaign, I believe it now disavows (or at least plays down, way down) national registration or permit systems, and is content to criticize NRA for the most part, occasionally proposing assault weapon bans, but even that rather quietly.
