Obama on gun rights

It was interesting to see both candidates responses to the Supreme Court's ruling on the DC handgun ban. What was even more interesting was the Obama campaigns soft dismissal of the ruling, when in reality, Obama is much more liberal on the 2nd Amendment than he claims.

This section of the AP article on yesterday's ruling is quite revealing:

Obama has voted to leave gun-makers and dealers open to lawsuits. He also took largely liberal positions on gun laws while in the Illinois legislature, including backing a ban on all forms of semiautomatic weapons and tighter state restrictions generally on firearms.

A ban of all semiautomatic weapons? That's probably close to 60 or 70 percent of all guns. That is hardly supportive of the 2nd Amendment.