Personally, I don't think the prez or congress has the balls to do anything about the sunset in '04. Especially since its an election year. Pro-gun voters are much more hardcore single-issue voters than the antis... antis as a whole tend to be multi-issue (abortion, environment, welfare). I think they'll just let the thing sunset and tell the antis they'll leave the issue up to the individual States. If they take action to extend the ban, they PISS OFF a lot of single-issue-voting pro-gun people. If they do nothing, they'll make a lot of people happy, while pissing off a smaller number of multi-issue voters. If I were a slimey politician looking for votes, I'd just do nothing.