GUN RIGHTS AND THE ELECTION RESULT

"Senate Summary: Change from pro-rights to anti-rights: Colorado, Illinois.

Change from anti-rights to pro-rights: Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota.

This is a net +3 for the Second Amendment in the Senate - probably enough to pass a bill to prohibit abusive lawsuits against gun manufacturers, without crippling antigun amendments. To be precise, the pro-rights gain is slightly more than +3.0, since the outgoing Illinois senator was only weakly pro-gun, and the incoming Colorado senator is only sometimes antigun.

House Summary: Pro-rights incumbents defeated: One in Georgia, Illinois.

Anti-rights incumbents defeated: One in Texas.

The House retains a solid pro-gun majority and leadership.

Governors: Shift to anti-rights: New Hampshire.

Shift to pro-rights: Missouri.


President of the United States: The people of the United States defied the United Nations, and reelected their pro-rights president. President Bush's reelection helps ensure that the 2006 United Nations conference on small arms will not become a back-door path to destroying the Second Amendment. President Bush will almost certainly sign any pro-rights legislation that passes Congress. After lawsuit reform, the most important bill would be the restoration of Second Amendment rights to citizens of the District of Columbia."

Detailed State-by State results here