Yah - hahahahaha. I think its not being looked at by the media because its not news. And even when it was news it was a minor blip. There was nothing to rip the AG on. He did his job by answering the question of a law maker. The media said "whats this opinion on machine guns all about"? And I told them what it was all about - and they were relatively un-interested.
It ain't news cuz there ain't no blood and there ain't gonna be no blood. Perhaps some of the media learned their lesson and perhaps some of the liberals learned a lesson when they lost their credability when all of the shootouts that were supposed to happen because we got CCW never happened.
There ain't no criminal misuse of privately owned registered machine guns and silencers anywhere. I think the liberal elite know this already. They also know due to the regs and cost this reaffirmation of the LAW impacts less than 1% of Michigans gun owners.
Unseat Cox - I highly doubt it. He's doing too good of a job on all fronts, a couple I don't agree with but never the less a great job in comparison to most AG's we've had. His base of support is wide. He also has a sizeable warchest accumulated and if he keeps doing what he's doing he's almost guaranteed re-election. Especially if he gets us that silencer clarification!
But seriously, we have seen the liberals attack some of our congressman with attack adds showing marching camoflaged covered face masked guys wearing combat boots carrying dreaded "assault weapons" in an in your face dramatic prime time tv add and they backfired or did not work. I can name names but don't need to - if you watched TV then you saw them.
How about Machine Gun Sammy Alito, named such by the evil dreaded wicked witch of the North Sarah Brady - Machine Gun Sammy is our new Supreme Court Justice!
Now if we cut the liberals any slack and they play their class warfare games and use President Bush to drag down Republican Congressman. Or if we let Granholm and company do the same to our Republican state legislators we could be in trouble down the road on various gun grab fronts.
Bottom line - yeah we got a shitty economy, yeah many people are hurting, adjustments must be made, but we don't throw out the baby with the bathwater and allow people to blame all our problems on the Republicans with the answer being throw out the Republicans and replace them with Democrats and it'll all be better. If that happens - welcome back the AW Ban at the federal level and more restrictive anti gun measures as they see fit to punish US with.