The Virginia Citizens Defense League is reporting (and the AP is confirming) that Conservative stalwart and long time Republican Senator John Warner has confirmed that he will work to extend the Clinton Gun Ban a/k/a 'Assault Weapons Ban'. In their email alert, VCDL reports that Senator Warner's office has confirmed that he is working with Chuck Schumer and Dianne 'gun in the purse' Feinstein to renew the gun ban.

Not only did aides at Warner's office not understand the difference between a 'silencer' (suppressor) and a flash hider, but they balked at the idea of paying any political price. VCDL President Phillip Van Cleave writes that when threatened with the idea of voting against the Republican Party aides responded, "What would you do, put a Democrat in as President?"

I don't know why there has been a liberal shift in the Republican Party lately but with attitudes like that, I'm staying home in November.

Editor's Note: For those of you that don't know what an 'assault weapon' is, it is best described as a gun that looks scary. The term itself is designed to be very misleading in that the guns are all semi-automatic, which means they fire one round per pull of the trigger. Thus they have no more functionality than your average hunting rifle. Politicians and GFWs however, would have you believe that cosmetic features such as a pistol grip or bayonet lugs make the bullets that come out of the end of the gun much more lethal than they would normally be. In trying to further their cause, they typically lie and describe the guns as fully automatic, which is not true. Automatic firearms have been heavily regulated since 1934.