Holder first squall in an approaching storm

January 9, 7:29 AMGun Rights ExaminerDavid Codrea

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Civil Liberties Examiner JD. Tuccille has weighed in on attorney general nominee Eric Holder's disregard for the Sixth Amendment:

The right to counsel is key to a fair trial, since it allows defendants to seek legal advice and wage the best defense possible against the impressive resources fielded by government prosecutors. But as deputy attorney general in 1999, Holder penned a memo regarding the prosecution of corporations that threatened companies with dire consequences if they helped their employees wage a defense -- or even kept them on the payroll. All this, remember, while the trial is being waged, before anybody has been convicted of a crime.

I've done what I can, both here and at The War on Guns, to alert readers to the danger of an attorney general who opposes private gun ownership. In the past week, we've explored:

Why Holder is a danger to gun owners

Why Holder is a danger to non-gun owners

Immediate and simple action YOU can take to oppose Holder's confirmation

Holder's scary position on your right to a legal defense

Just remember:

Ignoring the fact that the Republicans fielded a poor gun rights candidate, the Brady Campaign is now crowing that this issue is a political loser. Confident they are on a roll, they've sent the Obama team their wish list of infringements on your right to keep and bear arms. That it tracks with his stated intentions is no coincidence.

Author Alan Korwin warns us that "the Democrats have already leaked a gun-ban list." It includes "Rifles (or copies or duplicates...Pistols (or copies or duplicates)...Shotguns (or copies or duplicates)[and a] Catch-all category (for anything missed or new designs). Importantly, Mr. Korwin notes:

Attorney General gets carte blanche to ban guns at will:

Under the proposal, the U.S. Attorney General can add any “semiautomatic rifle or shotgun originally designed for military or law enforcement use, or a firearm based on the design of such a firearm, that is not particularly suitable for sporting purposes, as determined by the Attorney General.” Note that Obama’s pick for this office (Eric Holder, confirmation hearing set for Jan. 15) wrote a brief in the Heller case supporting the position that you have no right to have a working firearm in your own home.

And in related, developing news, author and television producer Michael Bane warns:

Sources from Washington are telling me that President-Elect Obama may move forward on an Assault Weapons/Magazine Capacity Ban ASAP — maybe as soon as later this January.

This is echoed, Bane reports, by Jim Shepherd at the SHOOTING WIRE:

Despite the new administration's insistence that jobs and the economy will be the top priority beginning January 20, insiders say payback to the NRA and other pro-Second Amendment groups is high on the agenda. Democratic advisors say the Republican party is "disorganized, disheartened, and dissolving" and it's a good time for the incoming administration to take them on in a core issue - the assault weapons ban is one of three topics they're evaluating.

We all saw "The Terminator," right?

"He said there's a storm coming in."

"I know."

We see it approaching, and we see an opportunity to set its advance temporarily back while we scramble to prepare for the onslaught. It's now up to you if you will do anything about it, and if so, what.