Bingo. An individual or a few of them against an entire govt is not what the 2nd is about. A population properly armed will not have to put down govt. Tyranny and despotism will never even germinate if the ability to destroy it is present. I dare say, we might not have seen WWI or WWII if righteous individuals properly armed, unified and organized had been there to prevent govt run amok. How many hundreds of thousands-millions of lives could have been saved by a nation of well armed yet good natured people?...

To the Obama gun ban movement, his website had a list of measures to ban firearms and confiscatorily tax ammunition. Among them was to reinstate the Clinton gun ban as well as a further move to stop the production of semi automatic arms. There are more and they are sweeping. I'd post a link, to his website, but the information has been taken down. I doubt that means they intend to scrap the effort.