Dave Kopel, recently:
I think even while we fear the worst, we can hope for the best. It's very unlikely that anti-Second Amendment stuff is going to be the top of the Obama and Democratic Congressional agenda early in 2009, because the economic issues are so much larger right now. But Obama is in his heart probably the most extreme anti-gun president we've ever had. So my guess would be, he'll do like John Howard did in Australia, and various administrations did in the United Kingdom, which is have a very fierce anti-gun agenda ready to go as soon as there's a terrorist attack or some other infamous crime, and they sense a brief window of public panic when they can try to push something through without the time for reflection.
We'll watch.
Y'know, I haven't seen anyone suggesting that gun legislation is even in the top 20, or heck, top 40 of priority issues for the incoming administration/Congress. Nor have I observed any liberal blogs calling for it. I'm sure you can find someone out there who differs, someone from some gun control organization, but given all the things liberals are craving action on, one might suggest holding off on the paranoia about stuff nobody is mentioning until there's some actual reason beyond the purely imaginary.
(Even more wacky are the folks going on about the need to keep the Fairness Doctrine from coming back, when just about no one important is calling for that, or doing a thing about it, either, and neither is there all that much constituency out there activist circles, either, beyond a handful of blogs here and there.)
FWIW, from the point of view of a Democrat. Me, I wouldn't put gun legislation in my top 200 issues.
Yeah, I'm aware of all of that - except that some prominent Democrats indeed have suggested they'd favor a return of the Fairness Doctrine. I don't think that proposal would get anywhere.
Gun legislation would have a chance, however. I bring up Mr. Kopel's remarks precisely because he's not prone to paranoia, and people who know him (many in these parts) recognize him as a reasonable spokesman for 2nd amendment rights.
Not that I share his point of view, but I think his comments are newsworthy.
Here's a result from 30 seconds of google searching - Kerry and Kucinich call for the return of the Fairness Doctrine